 | Robert DiYanni - 1990 - 1796 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1969 - 412 pages
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 | 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,...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... | |
 | David Hopkins - 1990 - 296 pages
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 | Hazard Adams - 1992 - 1304 pages
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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... 
