Part ii
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'T is not enough no harshness gives offence,-- The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
_Essay on Criticism.
Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to; Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
. Line 156._
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'T is not enough no harshness gives offence,-- The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
_Essay on Criticism.