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... The Spectator - Page 5by Joseph Addison - 1870Full view - About this book
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The Hne too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when...along the main. The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines puts me in mind of a description in Homer's Odyssey, which none of the critics have... | |
| William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...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,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main." " Of Inversion. SOME languages in regard to the arrangement... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw...slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise,... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 384 pages
...But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours ihe plain, Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with... | |
| Howard Felperin - 1985 - 228 pages
...case of enactment for traditional poetics is Pope's example from Homer in his 'Essay on Criticism': 'When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, / The line too labours and the words move slow.' But the Sonnets offer more striking examples, such as the opening of 129: 'Th'expense of spirit in... | |
| Carl Dahlhaus, Ruth Katz - 454 pages
...or the genius of the writer. A single instance may suffice to let this idea in the clearest light: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow.23 So will they in the expression of a deep and heavy affliction: And in this harsh world draw... | |
| H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...harmony' like Pope's is not true musical poetry but only description. He does not admire such passages as When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw The line too labours and the words move slow. For precisely the same reason Beattie attacked Handel for 'imitating in a trifling way' in his setting... | |
| John Douglas Canfield, J. Paul Hunter - 1989 - 214 pages
...exemplifying his simplistic youthful "rule" that the sound of a verse "must seem an Eccho to the Sense." When Ajax strives, some Rock's vast Weight to throw,...o'er th' unbending Corn, and skims along the Main. As he matures, however, he applies this principle in subtler and subtler ways — in fact, to the vanishing... | |
| John Hollander - 1990 - 280 pages
...is in fact mucking about with the truth about our lives. To return to Pope's examples for a moment: "When Ajax strives, some Rock's vast weight to throw,.../ The Line too labours, and the Words move slow": We may easily observe that "some Rock's vast weight," although metrically resolved as iambs (because... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 pages
...echo to the sense," says : 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, or skims along the main. Essay on Criticism. 268-281. On Norse mythology, see RB Anderson, Norse Mythology,... | |
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