 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. or whate'er was great, Lies crown'd with princes' honours, poets' lays, Due to Icarn'd to dance. * I 'in not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pages
...Alexandrine ends the song. Tnat like a wounded snake drags its slow length alón;. And afterwards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound...seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when /.ephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows: But when loud surges lash the... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 pages
...painted by a succession of soft and harmonious sounds. * The lines in the original run thus : Ezample. " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows." Pope's Essay on Criticism. 232. Virgil, describing the gay and easy motion of the nymph -^Egle, says,... | |
 | George Campbell - 1838 - 460 pages
...same piece, in the subsequent lines, and with tolerable success, at least in the concluding couplet: 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... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1839 - 844 pages
...by Pope : 1. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance; A* those move easiest who have learnt to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence;...to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently hlowi, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...languishing!}- slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. gives it, or receives learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1839 - 316 pages
...fciTfpjflaXXfov, ror' anoirrfj^acKC Kparacts ~Aur(S enetra n£$ovic KvXtvSero Xaaf livai^/s." Example, " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream iu smoother numbers flows." Pope's Essay on Criticism. 232. Virgil, describing the gay and easy motion... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pages
...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; and that ease which... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...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 ; and that ease which... | |
 | Susan Powell, Jeremy J. Smith - 2000 - 218 pages
...)ndfeuehiiparnemenrandmanve hiiof-slowen. SEMANTICS AND METRICAL FORM IN SIR GAWAINAND THE GREEN KNIGHT JEREMY J. SMITH 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 Eccho to the... | |
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