 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 ページ
...The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, While, at each change, the son of Libyan Jove And bid alternate... | |
 | Carl Dahlhaus, Ruth Katz - 454 ページ
...Excellency. ""Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth Stream in smoother Number flow; But when loud Surges lash the sounding Shore, The...strives some Rock's vast Weight to throw, The line too labours, and the Words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies o'er the unbending... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 ページ
...260. Camilla. Pope, illustrating the rule that " the sound should be an echo to the sense," says : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, or skims along the main. Essay on Criticism. 268-281. On Norse mythology, see RB... | |
 | David Baker - 1996 - 400 ページ
...Roethke reprinted with the permission of Faber & Faber Ltd. Copyright 1953 by Theodore Roethke. And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 ページ
...offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gendy blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when...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, Flies... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 ページ
...offence, 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...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know... | |
 | Matthew Campbell - 1999 - 292 ページ
...offence. 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...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours and the words move slow: (Essay on Criiicism, 364-71)' In a polemic designed to rescue metrical... | |
 | Ruth Katz, Ruth HaCohen - 2003 - 462 ページ
...Excellency, s. "Soft is the Strain when zephyr gently Blows, And the smooth Stream in smoother numhers Flows; But when loud Surges lash the sounding Shore,...strives some Rock's vast Weight to throw, The Line too lahours, and the Words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies o'er the unhending... | |
 | Ernest Pertwee - 2006 - 281 ページ
...four lines from Pope's Essay on Criticism : ' Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar' The following excerpt, full of imagination, is by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: — ' Nothing is small... | |
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Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, 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... 
