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...reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. - Samuel Johnson True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those...offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. - Alexander Pope Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool! " said my Muse to me, "look...

...not dreamt up, mind you — by Alexander Pope ( 1 688- 1 744) in his famous Essay on Criticism: True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance, As those...no Harshness gives Offence, The Sound must seem an Eccho to the Sense. (Italics mine.) COMPLETE RHYME Before the second decade of the nineteenth century,...

...eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest . . . (Essay on Man, i. 95-6) True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. (Essay on Criticism, 362-3 ) (Here the typography is normalized to dispel any "obsolete"...

...model for the decorum Bidart violates, we might think here of Pope in "An Essay on Criticism": "True Ease in writing comes from art, not chance, / As those move easiest who have learned to dance. / 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, / The sound must seem an echo to the...