 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 some rock's vast weight to throw, The...  Specimens of the British poets - 15 ページBritish poets 著 - 1809全文表示 - この書籍について
 | George Combe - 1830 - 732 ページ
...When AJAX strives some rock's huge weight to throw, The line too, labours, and the words move slow ; r Not so when swift CAMILLA scours the plain, Flies...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." POPE. Mr WATSON observes, that, in SHERIDAN, Individuality and Eventuality are large, and Comparison... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 ページ
...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...so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies o'er th 'unbending Corn, and skims along the Main. These lines deserve the closest attention from every... | |
 | Carl Dahlhaus, Ruth Katz - 454 ページ
...loud Surges lash the sounding Shore, The hoarse, rough Verse should like the Torrent roar. When Ajax strives some Rock's vast Weight to throw, The line...unbending Corn, and skims along the Main. Hear how Timotheus vary'd Lays surprise, And bid alternate Passions fall and rise! While, at each Change, the... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 ページ
...a principle, 'The Sound must seem an Eccho to the Sense' (line 365), then illustrates it: When Ajax strives, some Rock's vast Weight to throw, The line...so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies o'er th'unbending Corn, and skims along the Main. (II. 370-3) The Essay on Criticism is not, like most of... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 ページ
...the lines in this passage, it directs its energies toward a particular bit of narrative: When Ajax strives, some Rock's vast weight to throw, The Line...so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies oe'r th'unbending Corn, and skims along the Main. Swift Camilla's fast six feet are uncontaminated by any... | |
 | Homer - 1992 - 268 ページ
...19.21o-11 t uev ... | 6<f>6aA".ot 8' . . . ). 11? Cf. Pope. A'vsfly 0n <nti<tsrn (1711): When A|ax strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er uY unix-nding corn, and skims along the main. Another device of emphasis may be seen in lines which... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 ページ
...in which, illustrating the rule that 'the sound should be an echo to the sense', he says: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn or skims along the main. Essay on Criticism CHAPTER 34 Pythagoras, Egyptian Deities,... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 ページ
...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... | |
 | András Horn - 1998 - 212 ページ
...langsame, mühsame Bewegung metrisch „nochmals sagt", die vierte Zeile dagegen Flinkheit: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line,...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th" unbending corn, and skims along the main. Um nur zwei Mittel der prosodisch bewerkstelligten Verlangsamung... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 ページ
...rough verse should like the torrent roar. 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 o'er uY unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
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