 The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives...  The British Poets - Page 171866Full view - About this book
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...Soft and Rough. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother number flows : But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,...The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar, ' Slow Motion. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,, The line too labours, and the words... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 434 pages
...echoing groan the thickets brown, Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. Iliad, xxiii. 144. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent ro»r. Pope's Essay on Criticism, 369. DireScylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged what... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 456 pages
...strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. jFrom these lines, laboured with great attention,... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; Hut when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so -when swift Camilla scours the plain, Dies o'er th'unbending... | |
 | Kevin J. H. Dettmar - 1996 - 300 pages
...must seem an Eccho to the Sense. Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother Numbers flows; But when loud Surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough Verse shou'd like the Torrent roar. When Ajax strives, some Rock's vast weight to throw, The Line too labours,... | |
 | David Baker - 1996 - 400 pages
...should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o 'er th ' unbending corn, and skims along the main. —ALEXANDER POPE Contenting myself with the certainty... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 pages
...like the torrent roar. - T ' i ' i ' - r ' When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, 370 The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, ' - i • ' r ' r ' i" i - ' Flies o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main ... Sceptics who... | |
 | Hildegard L. C. Tristram - 1997 - 272 pages
...syllables in unstressed positions in "An Essay on Criticism" (11. 370-1): When/4/ox strives some Rocks' vast weight to throw, The Line too labours, and the Words move slow; (cf. Küper p. 191) In terms of this analysis, the relationship between the plane of abstract metre... | |
 | András Horn - 1998 - 212 pages
...zweite eine langsame, mühsame Bewegung metrisch „nochmals sagt", die vierte Zeile dagegen Flinkheit: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...o'er th" unbending corn, and skims along the main. Um nur zwei Mittel der prosodisch bewerkstelligten Verlangsamung hervorzuheben: Im 2. Vers sind sogar... | |
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