 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 155 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 160 Where Denham's1 strength, and Waller's2 sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...Davies. The priest on skins of ofFrings takes his ease, And mighty visions in his slumbers sees. Dryden. True ease, in writing, comes from art, not chance. As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Pope. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines most bright; Unaiming... | |
 | John Todd - Students - 1853 - 302 pages
...An artless scrawl the blushing scribbler shames ; All should be fair that beauteous woman frames ; True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance." I have desired to give you a specimen or two of beautiful letter-writing. They must... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pages
...the mind, and been thoroughly arranged and well digested there, it will flow forth easily at last. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Essag on Criticism, 1. 362-3. ' " with great distinctness, truth, and humour ; " * listening 1771.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 472 pages
...; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore." " 30 And praise the easy vigour of a line Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. POPE : Essay on Criticism. Originally: And tho' his clearer sand no golden veins Like Tagus' or Paetohis"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore." "' 20 And praise the easy vigour of a line Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. POPE : Essay on Criticism. 21 Originally: And tho' his clearer sand no golden veins Like Tagus" or... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 468 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. POPE. LESSON in. LYR1C POETRY. 1. THE kind of poetry which has been produced in every... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 396 pages
...take, in illustration, a couplet from Pope, a little farther on in the Essay from which C. quotes ; " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance." affixing to " writing " the technical meaning which is often assigned to it. This... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 396 pages
...take, in illustration, a couplet from Pope, a little farther on in the Essay from which C. quotes ; " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance." affixing to " writing " the technical meaning which is often assigned to it. This... | |
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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. 
