 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 line...  The Review of Reviews - Page 472edited by - 1895Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 650 pages
...Falconer : ' When great Mseonides with rapid song The thundering tide of battle rolls along ;' or Pope: ' When Ajax 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... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1839 - 844 pages
...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajai strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors and the words move slow. Not so when swift Camilla scours tbe plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : rength and colour of our life. Pleasures are ever iu our hands o labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 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, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending... | |
 | George Campbell - 1840 - 450 pages
...pause, which occasions a very drawling movement Another example I shall take from the same author. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow *. In the first of these lines, the harsh combination of consonants... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 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, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending... | |
 | Roger Fowler - 1987 - 276 pages
...sense of ease in pronunciation). All are exemplified in Pope's famous exercise 'An Essay on Criticism': When Ajax 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 th'unbendmg... | |
 | Carl Dahlhaus, Ruth Katz - 454 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, The line too labours, and the Words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies o'er the unbending... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...proclaims 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 too labours, and the Words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies o'er th'unbending... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 pages
...alexandrine. Like all 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 too labours, and the Words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies oe'r th'unbending... | |
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