 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 páginas
...Alexandrine ends the 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 train when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...Davies. The priest on skins of 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... | |
 | John Todd - 1853 - 302 páginas
...An artless scrawl the blushing scribbler shames ; All should be fair that beauteous woman frames ; True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance." I have desired to give you a specimen or two of beautiful letter-writing. They must... | |
 | 1854 - 630 páginas
...Alexandrine ends the 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 train when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud snrges... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 páginas
...the mind, and been thoroughly arranged and well digested there, it will flow forth easily at last. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Essag on Criticism, 1. 362-3. ' " with great distinctness, truth, and humour ; " * listening 1771.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 páginas
...words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense."— I. 324, 5. " Tig not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense." — I. 364, 5. " -At every trifle scorn to take offence ; That always shows great pride or little sense."... | |
 | Ray Barker, Louis Fidge - 1999 - 132 páginas
...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... | |
 | Mario Klarer - 1999 - 180 páginas
...Pope's (1688-1744) "Essay on Criticism" (1711) is a self-reflexive example of this technique: True case in writing comes from art. not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harslmess gives offense. The sound must seem an echo to the sense:... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 páginas
...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, /...offence, / The sound must seem an Echo to the sense. Alexander Pope, 1711, 'An Essay on Criticism', 362 21:70 Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation,... | |
 | Susan Powell, Jeremy J. Smith - 2000 - 218 páginas
...)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... | |
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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. 
