 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 sayfa
...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 ;... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 sayfa
...name should stand in the place of Denham's. The first line has the " easy vigour" of which it speaks. And praise the easy vigour of a line Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. The anecdote given hy Leigh Hunt of Moore's repeating with great gusto, the following lines by Dryden,... | |
 | 1897 - 986 sayfa
...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... | |
 | 1871 - 870 sayfa
...as careful as he should be, unless he commit his words to paper, and be mindful that . " True case in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance." e. This plan of writing gives authority to the preacher. In the style of the Bible,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 sayfa
...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...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 sayfa
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 sayfa
...rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join....% True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, v As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 sayfa
...course is diametrically opposite to that alluded to in the well known lines of Pope,— 11 True grace in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest, who bavo learned to dance." In this maxim it is assumed that natural ease and grace of carriage, are best... | |
 | 1847 - 540 sayfa
..." 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 sayfa
...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... | |
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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. 
