 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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. 'T is not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | 1852 - 756 psl.
...that he was always a suit behindhand, and fails egregiously in obtaining admiration. Line 358. "J'is not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. In illustration of this law Pope, in some fourteen or twenty lines, exhibits the power inherent in... | |
 | Ray Barker, Louis Fidge - 1999 - 132 psl.
...Sequence 1 1 4 Unit 22 Writing in Paragraphs 1 ]6 Stepping Stones copy masters A- K 118-128 INTRODUCTION True ease in writing comes from art, not chance As those move easiest \vho have learned to dance. ' It has long been recognised that the process of writing involves a number... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 psl.
...parts of literature. Pablo Picasso, quoted in Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air (1992), p. 92 21:69 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... | |
 | Susan Powell, Jeremy J. Smith - 2000 - 218 psl.
...)ndfeuehiiparnemenrandmanve hiiof-slowen. SEMANTICS AND METRICAL FORM IN SIR GAWAINAND THE GREEN KNIGHT JEREMY J. SMITH 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 Eccho to the... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 2001 - 598 psl.
...nature to advantage dressed, What ofr was thought but ne'er so well expressed. (Esiay on Criticism) True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned ro dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. (Esiay... | |
 | Vincent McInerney - 2001 - 296 psl.
...listens . . . and listens. 3 The medium is the message Who has two languages has two weapons. Anon. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learnt to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must be an echo of the sense.... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 psl.
...to. His words, "The oath should be an echo to the sense," echo Pope's Essay in Criticism. 1, 364-65: Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo of the sense. Among Acres' oaths are "Odds whips and wheels!" . . . "Odds triggers and flint!" . .... | |
 | Mel Levine - 2003 - 288 psl.
...glad I am to find On any sheet the least display of mind. — ROBERT FROST, "A CONSIDERABLE SPECK" True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As...learned to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offense; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. — ALEXANDER POPE, "AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM" (1711)... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 psl.
..."What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers." — Logan Pearsall Smith "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance." — Alexander Pope "Of all those arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing... | |
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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... 
