 | Goold Brown - English language - 1858 - 1096 pages
...¡i, p. 53. " Firmer he roots him tho ruder it blow."— Scott, L. о/Л., С. li, st 19. " Trae eaee in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." — Горе, Ess. on Cril. " And also now tho sluggard soundest slept." — I'ollok, 0. of Т., В.... | |
 | Thomas Clotworthy Skeffington (hon.) - 1858 - 130 pages
...fine arts, in which skill coupled with inventive genius have ever been indispensable adjuncts : — " 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 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... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - Language and languages - 1860 - 410 pages
...their compositions, which gives them advantage in foreign competition, because they never forget, that, True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. Gradation. O for the bright complexion, cordial warmth And elevating spirit of a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 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, ana know What's roundly smooth, or languishing!/ slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 364 Where... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Teachers - 1860 - 606 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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1862 - 304 pages
...applied in the following extracts. 1. 'Sweet soul, let 's in, and there expect their coming.' 2. ' True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.' 3. ' So, pleased at first, the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. [know Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And...from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have leam'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...thought, A nocdleas Alexandrine8 ends the s6ng. That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow lengU alQng 6. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know...smooth or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigor of a line, Where DenharnV strength and Waller's4 sweetness join. True case in writing comes frotn... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
.... . . The world agrees That he writes well who writes with ease. PRIOR.— Epi. II. To F. Shephard. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance. As those move easiest who have learn'd to dnnce. POPE. — On Criticism, Line 882. Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief... | |
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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. 
