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Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...huiguishingly slow ; A nd praise the easy vigor of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ;...learned to dance. 'T is not enough no harshness gives oftence, The sound must seems an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And...
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Principles of Elocution

Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...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 learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 4

Henry Barnard - Education - 1857 - 880 pages
...execution seems, after long practice, to be but the habit of the hand ; illustrated thus by Pope : ' True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance ; ' affixing to ' writing ' the technical meaning which is often assigned to it. This art is partly...
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic

Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 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...
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American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 4

Education - 1857 - 956 pages
...execution seems, after long practice, to be but the habit of tho hand ; illustrated thus by Pope : ' True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who Ьате learned to dance ; ' into form and outline his own idea of the letter. The result is a feeble...
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The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing: Writing Myself

Gillie Bolton - Psychology - 1999 - 254 pages
...that they were going to separate and not see each other again. An additional irony. But is it art? True ease in writing comes from art, not chance As those move easiest who have learned to dance (Alexander Pope) has to be taken off the page for the writing to work as a piece of literature for...
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An Introduction to Literary Studies

Mario Klarer - Literary Collections - 1999 - 180 pages
...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: Soft is the strain...
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Focus on Writing Composition, Book 3

Ray Barker, Louis Fidge - English language - 1999 - 132 pages
...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...
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New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: A Festschrift for R.A. Waldron

Susan Powell, Jeremy J. Smith - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 218 pages
...)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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Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages

David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...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...
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