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" True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. "
Bell's Edition - Page 142
by John Bell - 1796
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...eafieft who have learn'd to dance. ' If fuch the plague and pains to write by rule, i8d Better (fay I) be pleas'd, and play the fool ; Call, if you will, bad rhiming a difeafe, It gives men happinefs, or leaves them eafe. NoTSs. But there is n jet of ftill...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 288 pages
...eafieft who have learn'd to dance. * If fuch the plague and pains to write by rule, 1 80 Better (fay I) be pleas'd, and play the fool ; Call, if you will, bad rhiming a difeafe, It gives men happinefs, or leaves them eafe< NOTES. But there Is a fet of Hill lower...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...eafieft who have learn'd to dance. * If fuch the plague and pains to write by rule, 180 Better (fay I) be pleas'd, -and play the fool ; Call, if you will, bad rhiming a difeafe, It gives men happinefs, or leaves them eafe, NOTES. But there is a fet of ftill...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1754 - 278 pages
...eafieft who have learn'd to dance. q If fuch the plague and pains to write by rule, 180 Better (fay I) be pleas'd, and play the fool ; Call, if you will, bad rhyming a difeafc, It gives men happinefs. or leaves them eafe. There liv'd in prime Gtorgii (they record) A...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &c

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 272 pages
...eafieft who have learn'd to dance. i If fuch the plague and pains to write by rule, 1 80 Better (fay I) be pleas'd, and play the fool ; Call, if you will, bad rhyming a difeafe, There liv'd in primo Georgii (they record) A worthy member, no fmall fool, a Lord ; 1 85 Who,...
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Moral essays, satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...move eafteft who have learn'd to dance. If fuch the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (fay I), be pleas'd, and play the fool; Call, if you will, bad rhyming a diftafe, It gives men happinefs, or gives them eafe,, There liv'd inprimo Georgii (they record) A worthy...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...of each foreign tongue; Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine, But show no mercy to an empty line: Then polish all, with so much life .and ease, You think 'tis nature, and a knack to please : '' But easa in writing flows from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learnt to dance." If such...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Imitations, moral ...

Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...eafieft who have learn'd to dance." 1 1f fuch the plague and pains to write by rule, 180 Better (fay I) be pleas'd, and play the fool; Call, if you will, bad rhyming a difeafe, It gives men happinefs, or leaves them eafe. There liv'd ih prime Georgii (they record) A...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...rnovccafieft who have 1 earn'd to dance. ' ' If fuch the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (fay e gifts, fhe looks from me, arc pack'd and lock'd JJp in my heart difcafe ; It gives men happincfs, or leaves them cafe, There liv'd in primo Ceorgii (they record) A...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1

George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 462 pages
...observed in any manner which untutored Nature can produce. This sentiment is well expressed by the poet: But ease in writing flows from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance f. True ease in composition, accompanied with purity, differs as much from that homely manner which...
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