 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, anH know What's roundly smooth or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigor of a line, Where Denham's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...fraught With some umneaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave...languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham'a strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhy ines,a nd know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave...from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave...own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishing!}- slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...mistake of supposing that easy writing must be easy reading. It is quite the contrary. As Pope says, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance*." " The best performances," says Melmoth, " have generally cost the most labour ;... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...name should stand in the place of Denham's. The first line has the " easy vigour" of which it speaks. And praise the easy vigour of a line Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. The anecdote given hy Leigh Hunt of Moore's repeating with great gusto, the following lines by Dryden,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...name should stand, in the place of Denham's. The first line has the " easy vigour" of which it speaks. And praise the easy vigour of a line Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. The anecdote given by Leigh Hunt of Moore's repeating with great gusto, the following lines by Dryden,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...name should stand in the place of Denham's. The first line has the " easy vigour" of which it speaks. And praise the easy vigour of a line Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. The anecdote given by Leigh Hunt of Moore's repeating with great gusto, the following lines by Dryden,... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pages
...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave...languishingly slow; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Que tomar por modelo as vestias d'abas Com que nossos Avós faziam sócia. Em termos, como em moda,... | |
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest, who have learned to dance : 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 
