 | 1897 - 986 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave...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.... | |
 | R. Turner (B.A.) - 1845 - 318 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | 1845 - 816 Seiten
...franght With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes ! " — 897 Who are the " MOST " that " JUDGE a poet's song by numbers?" with whom " smooth or rough... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 Seiten
...With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 355 A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave...know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; NOTES. " Non tamen (says the sensible Quintilian) id ut crimen ingens expavescendum est ; ac nescio... | |
 | 1847 - 540 Seiten
..." The style is excellent," The sense they humbly take upon content. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 11. True ease, in writing, comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 12. Talk as you will of taste, my friend, you'll find Two of a face, as... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 Seiten
...forcible pronunciation of certain letters which are supposed more particularly to express the imitation. 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... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, 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, Where Denham's... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 932 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
