 | 1865 - 496 pages
...some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 155 A needless Alexandrine (33) ends the song, That, lilce a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave...languishingly slow; And praise the easy vigour of a line 160 Where Denham's (34) strength and Waller's (35) sweetness join. 148. At the same time that; unchanged... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.* Part ii. Line 156. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance, x Part ii. Line 162. The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...A needless Alexandrine ' ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. 6. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know...smooth or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigor of a line, Where Denham's 5 strength and Waller's ' sweetness join. True ease in writing comes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wBundelTsliake, drags its slowlength along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and...from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'dto dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 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, 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance... | |
 | Richard Lederer - Education - 1995 - 262 pages
...Alexander Pope reminded us that, like dancers, writers can master their art and craft through practice: True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. To help you "move easiest" through your life as a worker with words, we offer a short,... | |
 | Paul Haffner - Dissertations, Academic - 1996 - 86 pages
...secondary sources. Chapter 5 should be consulted for information on how to do this. Chapter 3 The Thesis 'True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.' Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism 3.1 The choice of theme 3.1.1 The theme must... | |
 | Norman Davies - History - 1996 - 1428 pages
...(1711} and the Essay on Man (1733), are infinitely expressive of his generation's temper and interests: 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 of the sense.... | |
 | David Baker - Poetry - 1996 - 404 pages
...drag of the dactyl. We can put a dactyl in place of an iamb, but it's likely to rest uneasily there: True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. Substitute a dactyl for the fourth iamb in the second line, and the reader who has... | |
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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. 
