 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 psl.
...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; 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.... | |
 | 1803 - 412 psl.
...song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along.' And afterwards, • •• •-• < ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. '' "'•' ' . Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in, smoother numbers... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 psl.
...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 learn 'd to dance. 'Tis not enough, no harshness gives offence , The sound must aeem an echo to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 psl.
...along, 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.... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 psl.
...evident that he bestowed much time and care on his poems, before he ventured them out of his hands."f 27. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. J • i It is well known that the writings of Voiture, of Sarassin, and La Fontaine,... | |
 | 1806 - 408 psl.
...languishingly 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 learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 psl.
...light : To all proportion'd terms he must dis-- pense, And make the sound a picture of the sense. PITT. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. POPE. Tune longe sale saxa sonant, tune et fréta ventis Incipiunt agitata tumescere : littore fluctus... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 psl.
...languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line [join. Where Denhatn's strength and Waller's sweetuess 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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 psl.
...languisbingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line [join. Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness 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.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 psl.
...slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, WThere 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... | |
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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 : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream... 
