 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...rhymes, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join....chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhyraes,and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow;...chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...worse : Fell Sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more, Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore. 80. 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 sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 932 pages
...under consideration. MARIA. — Sweet thoughts no doubt. No want of fancy, but you must remember, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learnt to dauce." SFD — Apply to the nearest priest for counsel ; ho will best direct you, and may... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 628 pages
...'whispers through the trees :' If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,* The reader's threatened (not in vain) with * sleep;' Then at the last, and...chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join....chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 384 pages
...with so much life and ease, You think 'tis nature, and a knack to please ; ' But ease in writing flows from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance/9 If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleas'd, and play the fool... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...rhymes, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join....chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'T is not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
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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 sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream... 
