 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 - 1819 - 366 ページ
...sounding shore, The hoarse ronghi verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some roi k's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope. 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse, steals... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 ページ
...Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother nun bers flows J But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,. The Hue, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours -the plain, Flies o'er... | |
 | Kevin J. H. Dettmar - 1996 - 300 ページ
...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...throw, The Line too labours, and the Words move slow. . . ,44 Not surprisingly, Pope's verse treatise on expressive form itself exploits what he calls "a... | |
 | David Baker - 1996 - 404 ページ
...Roethke. 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,...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... | |
 | David Baker - 1996 - 400 ページ
...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 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... | |
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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... 
