| William Scott - 1814 - 424 страници
...take the mountain pine, And make them stoop to the vale. Shaletptare. 19. 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 Ewing - 1819 - 448 страници
...easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease ia writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis. not enough no harshness give offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 страници
...vigour of a line, 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 sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the... | |
| William Scott - 1819 - 366 страници
...mountain pine, And make them stoop to the vale. — Shakespeare. 19' True ease in writing comes iroin art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. "Tis not enough no liarshness gives offence ; ..The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the... | |
| 1822 - 290 страници
...pure, and yet divinely, strong, Rich with the treasures of each foreign tongue; Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine, But show no mercy to an empty...learn'd to dance.' If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleased, and play the fool: Call, if you will, bad rhyming a disease, It... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 294 страници
...pure, and yet divinely strong, Rich with the treasures of each foreign tongue; Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine, But show no mercy to an empty...learn'd to dance.' If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleased, and play the fool: Call, if you will, bad rhyming a disease, It... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 страници
...; whereas our Poet supposes it to be the last, and hardly attained perfection of a laboured NOTES. Then polish all, with so much life and ease, You think...As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." q If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleas 'd and play the fool ; 181... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 страници
...exercises : and the delight he took in it, produced the effect he speaks of, in the following lines : " Then polish all with so much life and ease, You think 'tis nature, and a knack to please." We are not commonly taught to expect this effect from correction ; and it has been observed oftener... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 страници
...that have much force and energy ; in our author himself, as well as Dryden. 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 : 365 NOTES. Ver.... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 страници
...easy vigour of a line [join. Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness 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... | |
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