 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - Liczba stron: 510
...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." If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleased, and play the fool ; Call,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Liczba stron: 376
...indissolubly firm the chain, That binds, with links of love, thy Mother's heart ! IMITATIVE HARMONY. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Pope's Essay on Criticism*. 'Tis not enough his verses to complete In measure, numbers, or determined... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Liczba stron: 352
...mistake of supposing that easy writing must be easy reading. It is quite the contrary. As Pope says, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance; As those move easiest who have learned to dance*." " The best . performances," says Melmoth, " have generally cost the most labour;... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Liczba stron: 714
...mistake of supposing that easy writing must be easy reading. It is quite the contrary. As Pope says, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance*." " The best performances," says Melmoth, " have generally cost the most labour ;... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Liczba stron: 354
...mistake of supposing that easy writing must be easy reading. It is quite the contrary. As Pope says, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance*." " The best performances," says Melmoth, " have generally cost the most labour ;... | |
 | 1897 - Liczba stron: 986
...loftiest expression of the art of writing. "The art of writing," note: which recalls the lines of Pope:— True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learnt to dance. There is not a poem of Tennyson's— or there Is hardly one— which is not the outcome... | |
 | 1871 - Liczba stron: 870
...as careful as he should be, unless he commit his words to paper, and be mindful that . " True case in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance." e. This plan of writing gives authority to the preacher. In the style of the Bible,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - Liczba stron: 490
...or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy 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 learned to dance : 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - Liczba stron: 510
...words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense." — I. 324, 5. " "Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense." — I. 364, 5. " At every trifle scorn to take offence ; That always shows great pride or little sense."... | |
 | R. Turner (B.A.) - 1845 - Liczba stron: 318
...so far from destroy ing natural ease and elegance, that they cannot be acquired by any other means. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. POPE. But the second part of the beforementioncd precept for writing letters is,... | |
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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. 
