 | András Horn - Drama - 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,...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... | |
 | Mary Oliver - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 212 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Dietrich Jäger - American fiction - 1998 - 340 pages
...Offence, The Sound must seem an Eccho to the Sense, 365 Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth Stream in smoother Numbers flows; But...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,... | |
 | Matthew Campbell - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 292 pages
...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...throw, The line too labours and the words move slow: (Essay on Criiicism, 364-71)' In a polemic designed to rescue metrical matters from technical prescription,... | |
 | Susan Powell, Jeremy J. Smith - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 218 pages
...gives Offence, The Sound must seem an Eccho to the Sense. Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows. And the smooth Stream in smoother Numbers flows; But...Surges lash the sounding Shore, The hoarse, rough Verse shou'd like the Torrent roar. Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism, 362-91 I THE PRESENT PAPER attempts... | |
 | Ruth Katz, Ruth HaCohen - Philosophy - 2003 - 462 pages
...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... | |
 | Peter Childs, Roger Fowler - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 280 pages
...in pronunciation). All are exemplified in Alexander Pope's famous exercise 'An Essay in Criticism': When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...slow; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flie o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main. Samuel Johnson, however, attempting to prove... | |
 | Ernest Pertwee - Self-Help - 2006 - 281 pages
...in these four lines from Pope's Essay on Criticism : ' Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ;...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar' The following excerpt, full of imagination, is by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: — ' Nothing is small... | |
 | Neil Corcoran - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 414 pages
...to accommodate the kinesthesis of the poem's subject - Pope gives some handy advice on this theme: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main . . . (Essay on Criticism, 1711) Not only does Pope expand... | |
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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... 
