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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... "
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A Grammar of Rhetoric, and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles ...

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...
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Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 1

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...
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Literary Leaves, Volume 1

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...
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New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: A Festschrift for R.A. Waldron

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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The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Ronald Carter, John McRae - 2001 - 598 pages
...nature to advantage dressed, What ofr was thought but ne'er so well expressed. (Esiay on Criticism) True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned ro dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. (Esiay...
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Writing For Radio

Vincent McInerney - 2001 - 296 pages
...listens . . . and listens. 3 The medium is the message Who has two languages has two weapons. Anon. 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 be an echo of the sense....
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...to. His words, "The oath should be an echo to the sense," echo Pope's Essay in Criticism. 1, 364-65: Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo of the sense. Among Acres' oaths are "Odds whips and wheels!" . . . "Odds triggers and flint!" . ....
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The Myth of Laziness

Mel Levine - 2003 - 288 pages
...glad I am to find On any sheet the least display of mind. — ROBERT FROST, "A CONSIDERABLE SPECK" True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As...learned to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offense; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. — ALEXANDER POPE, "AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM" (1711)...
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Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal

Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
..."What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers." — Logan Pearsall Smith "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance." — Alexander Pope "Of all those arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing...
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Hot Text: Web Writing that Works

Jonathan Price, Lisa Price - 2002 - 526 pages
...and Champanis (1982), Spyridakis (2000). net spin Blow Up Nominalizations and Noun Trains BACKGROUND True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. —Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism Rescue the verb On the Web, people feel impatient with any...
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