| John Walker - 1810 - 394 страница
...deportment. What Pope says of writing is perfectly applicable to action in oratory. True ease in action comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. To descend, however to a few of those particulars, to which it seems the most necessary to attend ;... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 страница
...[longthat, like a wounded snake, drags it's slow length aLeave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know what's roundly smooth, or 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,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 страница
...That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length Leave Such to tune their own dull rhymed and know What's roundly smooth or languishingly slow; And praise the easy vigour of a line, [join. Where Denbam's strength and Waller's sweetness True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 страница
...with so much life and ease, You think 'tis Nature, and a knack to please : " But ease in writing Hows 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 pleas'd, and play the fool ; Call,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 страница
...That, like a vouoded snake, dratrs its slow length Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of of a line Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 страница
...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 pleas'd, and play the fool ; 181 Call,... | |
| Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 страница
...in their hands. MILTON! LESSON XVIII. ANTITHESES. TB-UE ease in writing comes from art, not ckance ; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness giyes offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain, when zephyr gently blows,... | |
| Elizabeth Appleton - 1815 - 362 страница
...age of prodigy. Genius or no genius, he alone shall be clever who is studious; for, as Pope says, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance", " As those move easiest who have learnt to dance:" and chance has as little to do with any other study as with writing. we mast A young... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 страница
...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...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... | |
| William Scott - 1819 - 366 страница
...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 strain when zephyr... | |
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