 | George Campbell - English language - 1841 - 416 pages
...untutored Nature can .produce. This sentiment is •well expressed by the poet : But ease in writing flows from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to danee.§ fGeneral Introduction to the Account of the Voyages of Commodore Bynwj, &c. by Hawkesworth.... | |
 | Theology - 1871 - 870 pages
...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, he is a " ruler... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...the 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...slow ; And praise the 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 learned to dance : 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the... | |
 | R. Turner (B.A.) - Forms (Law) - 1845 - 318 pages
...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, if possible, more... | |
 | Margaret Thornley - Education - 1846 - 420 pages
...glorious, beautiful. Nevertheless there is some truth in Pope's assertion, that — " Ease in writing flows from art, not chance, As those move easiest, who have learned to dance." Prom the nature of his illustration, I suppose he means to say, that if the mind be forced at certain... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...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... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...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 sense. Soft is the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...Warton. 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, 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.... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
..." 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... | |
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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... 
