...wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What 's roundly smooth, or 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,...

...feasts the sensfe ; but like the ordinary breeze, which purifies the air, and renders it healrhful. True ease in writing comes from art, .not chance : As those move easiest, who have learned to dance. One shall rise Of proud ambitious heart, who, not content Will) fair equalitv, fraternal...

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...Thai, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymcs,and r / 3GC Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,...

...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 know...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...

...like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhy ines,a nd en, and not a master, taught, Whose art was nature,...crown'd with princes' honours, poets' lays, Due to Icarn'd to dance. * I 'in not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the...

...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 know...; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham'a strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As...

...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 know...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,...

...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 know What's roundly smooth, or languishing!}- slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness...

...mistake of supposing that easy writing must be easy reading. It is quite the contrary. As Pope says, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance*." " The best performances," says Melmoth, " have generally cost the most labour ;...