 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, , A needless Alexandrine ends the song, i! That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along: Leave such...strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writting comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. r'Tis not enough... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 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, seo Where Denham's... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, seo Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, _ As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, lite 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...which the world ne'er saw. Essay on Poetry. SHEFFIELD. Essay on Criticism — Continued. . ' Line 162. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. Line 165. The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Line 325. To err is human : to... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 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.... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...own dull rhymes, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigor of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness...from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T is not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seems an echo to the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine" ends the Bong, 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 huiguishingly slow ; A nd praise the easy vigor of a line, Where Denham's... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1857 - 880 pages
...execution seems, after long practice, to be but the habit of the hand ; illustrated thus by Pope : ' 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. 
