| John Bell - 1796 - 524 ÆäÀÌÁö
...like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and knoir 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. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance;... | |
| 1796 - 500 ÆäÀÌÁö
...so ranch life and ease You think 'tis Nature, »nd a knack to please : " But ease in writing flows from art, not chance, " As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." 1 If such the plague, and pains, to writa by rule, iSo Better (say I) be pleas'd, and play the fool... | |
| George Campbell - 1801 - 462 ÆäÀÌÁö
...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 learn'd to dance f. True ease in composition, accompanied with purity, differs as much from that homely manner which... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 ÆäÀÌÁö
...like a wounded snake, draws its slow length along. Leave such-te tune their own dull rhimes, and know What's roundly smooth , or languishingly slow } And...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 - 190 ÆäÀÌÁö
...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, 180 Better ( say I) be pleas'd, and play the fool :... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 936 ÆäÀÌÁö
...opposed to softness, in writing or painting. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow; And praise...easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Walter's sweetness join. fye. Caracci's strenrth, Coregjjio's softer line, Paulo's free stroke, and... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 ÆäÀÌÁö
...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, cost them much... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 ÆäÀÌÁö
...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 It is well known that the writings of Voiture, of Sarassin, and La Fontaine, cost them much... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 ÆäÀÌÁö
...scrupulously avoiding it, POPE has fallen into an unpleasing and tiresome monotony in his Iliad. 25. And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join.t i ^ FEN TON, * Edinburgh, 1753, 12mo. p. 81. f Ver. 356. i % Ver. 360. FENTON, in his entertaining... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 ÆäÀÌÁö
...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 hy rule, Better (say I) he pleas'd, and play the fool; Call,... | |
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