Prior.—Epi. II. To F. Shephard.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.
Pope.—On Criticism, Line 362.
Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.
Buckingham.—Essay on Poetry.
’Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill.
Pope.—On Criticism, Line 1.
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
Pope.—Ibid. Line 6.
Both to the virtue due, which could excel
As much in writing, as in living well.
Prior.—To Rev. Dr. Turner, Line 21.
WRONG.—You have a wrong sow by the ear.
Butler.—Hudibras, Part II. Canto III.
Brother, brother—we are both in the wrong.
Gay.—The Beggar’s Opera, Act II. Scene 2
It may be right; but you are in the wrong
To speak before your time.
Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act V. Scene I. (The Duke to Lucio.)
He hath wrong’d me, master Page.
Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I. Scene 1.