...The following passages derive much additional force from the illustrations which they contain : — " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance." " I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers...

...needless Alexandrine1 ends the song, That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. * * * * 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....

...And long behind his wounded vulume trails. — WAEEFIELD. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,1 and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise ' the easy vigour of a line, sat Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join.' True ease in writing comes from art, not...

...will not be as careful as he should be, unless he commit his words to paper, and be mindful that " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance." e. This plan of writing gives authority to the preacher. In the style of the Bible,...

...mouths." Bk. ii. The subjoined advice for versifiers is taken from POPE'S Essay on Criticism : — " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest that have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence; The sound must seem an echo...

...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, seo Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not...

...thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. breaking At solemn pauses, through the swelling bass...mingling flame increases each, In one united ardo vigor of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from...

...self, a reflection enclosed with my application for acceptance in the doctoral program this September. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance. As those move easiest who have learned to dance. Alexander Pope Essays in Criticism, II When I turned twenty, I felt that I was "almost...

...Real Cool" and TS Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" may be found in Kennedy. SUU U easier True ease in writing comes from art, not chance. As those move easiest who have learned to dance. — Alexander Pope For a good poet's made as well as born. — Ben Jonson Too often...

...Alexander Pope reminded us that, like dancers, writers can master their art and craft through practice: True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. To help you "move easiest" through your life as a worker with words, we offer a short,...