 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 Seiten
...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and knov What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 Seiten
...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave...languishingly 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 Seiten
...With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, 356 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave...languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join. NOTES. Ver. 360. And praise the easy vigour]... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 Seiten
...With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Ale^andrjne ends the song, 356 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave...languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join. NOTES. Ver. 360. And praise the easy vigour]... | |
 | 1822 - 284 Seiten
...ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune theirown dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line [j°in. Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 Seiten
...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave...from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. THE AMERICAN [Lw<m 191. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 Seiten
...That, like a wounded snake, drags it's slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhimes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow...Waller's sweetness join, True ease in writing comes from act, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - 1823 - 438 Seiten
...derived from whatever is most excellent in ancient and modern literature, for, as Pope justly observes, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." I must, therefore, confess I do not regret, with Mr. Shee, " the long and general influence of precedent... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 Seiten
...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 Seiten
...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. (Leave...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... | |
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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. 
