 | 1822 - 284 Seiten
...like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune theirown dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line [j°in. Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 Seiten
...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 praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join. NOTES. Ver. 360. And praise the easy vigour]... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 Seiten
...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 praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join. NOTES. Ver. 360. And praise the easy vigour]... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 294 Seiten
...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 learn'd to dance.' If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleased, and play the fool: Call,... | |
 | 1822 - 290 Seiten
...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 learn'd to dance.' If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleased, and play the fool: Call,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 Seiten
...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 learn'd to dance." q If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleas'd and play the fool ; 181... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 Seiten
...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 praise...from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. THE AMERICAN [Lw<m 191. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 Seiten
...like a wounded snake, drags it's slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhimes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And...Waller's sweetness join, True ease in writing comes from act, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - 1823 - 438 Seiten
...derived from whatever is most excellent in ancient and modern literature, for, as Pope justly observes, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." I must, therefore, confess I do not regret, with Mr. Shee, " the long and general influence of precedent... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 Seiten
...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....chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. NOTES. 366. A needless Alexandrine, #c.] Dr. Johnson requires in an Alexandrine a pause invariably... | |
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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. 
