 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...17 5 Then polish alt with 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...; 175 Then polish all 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...line; 175 Then polish all 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 learnt to dance.' If such the plague and pains to write by rule, 180 Better (say I) he pleas'd, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...line ; Then polish all 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... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...Then polish all with so much life and ease You think 'tis Nature, and a knack to please : ' But case in writing flows from art, not chance, ' As those move easiest who have learn'd to dar.cc.' If such the plague, and pains, to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleas'd, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...line ; Then polish all 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 iiuch the plague and pains to write by ride, Better (say I) be pleas'd, and play... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...vulgar idiom. Most writers who affect case and familiarity in writing, are apt to slide into it : " But ease in writing flows from art, not chance, " As those move easiest who have Icarn'd to dance.'' 4th. That ambiguity, as well as inaccuracy, is not uncommonly the effect of introducing... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...line : Then polish all with so much life and ense, You think 'tis Nature, and a knack to please : " But ease in writing flows from art, not chance; " As those move easiest whohavelcariiMtodancc." If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say 1) he plciis'd,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...: 175 Then polish all, 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, Better (say I) be pleas'd, and play... | |
 | 1813 - 744 pages
...it serves for an example to prove the rule, that the perfection of artifice is to hide itself. " For ease in writing flows from art, not chance ; " As those move easiest who bare learnt to dance." In classic attainment General Fitzpatrick could not be compared to die mighty... | |
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 
