 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 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. NOTES. This, therefore, as he had talents that seemed capable of things worthy to be improved, should... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 страница
...first and last are very slight, indeed, scarcely perceptible, and are sometimes called demi-cesuras. 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 j must seem || an echo... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 pleased, and play the fool ; Call,... | |
 | 1872 - 676 страница
...Charles during his imprisonment at Carisbrook, and of whom VVarton — commenting on Pope's verses : " the easy vigour of a line. Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join," — complains that sufficient justice has not been done, since he " did more to polish and tune the... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 932 страница
...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 - 1851 - 328 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...line Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness joinTrue ease/in writing conies from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 384 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/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 страница
...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 praise...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 - 1852 - 570 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 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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 страница
...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 learned to dance : 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 
