 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 sider
...each foreign tongue ; Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine, But show no mercy to an empty line : Then polish all, with so much life and ease, You think...nature, and a knack to please : But ease in writing 0ows from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have leam'd to dance If such the plague and pains... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 sider
...doth never rankle more, Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore. 80. 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. Soft is the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 384 sider
...each foreign tongue ; Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine, But show no mercy to an empty line ; Then polish all with so much life and ease, You think...chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance/9 If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleas'd, and play the fool... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 sider
...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 : Soft is the... | |
 | 1852 - 1080 sider
...taste and experience is guided, were ever irnbodied in language. * Pope has hit this point exactly. u But ease in writing flows from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learnt to dance." 6 He has formed them for himself by studying the constitution of man and making observations... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 sider
...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. 'T is not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 sider
...ofFrings takes his ease, And mighty visions in his slumbers sees. Dryden. True ease, in writing, comes from art, not chance. As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Pope. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines most bright; Unaiming... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 sider
...foreign tongue ; Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine, But show no mercy to an empty line ; 175 Then polish all, with so much life and ease, You think...chance ; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."5 If such the plague and pains to write by rule, 180 Better (say I) be pleased, and play the... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 sider
...each foreign tongue ; Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine, But show no mercy to an empty line : Then polish all with so much life and ease, You think...from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learnt to dance. MY AUNT. This very clever poem is by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, an American poet. MY aunt... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 sider
...foreign tongue; Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine, But show no mercy to an empty line ; 175 " But ease in writing flows from art, not chance; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." 3 If such the plague and pains to write hy rule, 180 Better (say I) be pleased, and play the fool;... | |
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 
