 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...  1785-1824 - Page 8edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
 | 1824 - 408 pages
...terminating sound being / and n : so also is the celebrated passage of Pope, VOL. IX. PART II. U " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. ****** Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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 learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...slow; 359 And praise the 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 learnt to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
 | 1826 - 82 pages
...feasts the sensfe ; but like the ordinary breeze, which purifies the air, and renders it healrhful. True ease in writing comes from art, .not chance : As those move easiest, who have learned to dance. One shall rise Of proud ambitious heart, who, not content Will) fair equalitv, fraternal state, Will... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 222 pages
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 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 258 pages
...mora arc nam'd. SECTION V. Tt*SES tN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIBH1KICATION. Smooth and rou%h verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in .smoother numbers flowi. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse, should like the torrent... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...are nam'd. SECTION V. >'ER8ES IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION, Smooth and rough Verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, % And the smooth stream in smoother number? flows. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 258 pages
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 | 1828 - 668 pages
...applied : " 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sonnd must soem an echo to the sente. Sott is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother number* flows ; But when load surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough ntte should like the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...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 learned to dance," If such the plague and pains to write by rule. Better, say I, be pleased, and play the fool; Call,... | |
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