 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...learn'd to dance. '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...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the... | |
 | 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,...so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies o'er th'unbending Corn, and skims along the Main. (II. 370-3) The Essay on Criticism is not, like most of... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | Homer - 1992 - 268 pages
...19.21o-11 t uev ... | 6<f>6aA".ot 8' . . . ). 11? Cf. Pope. A'vsfly 0n <nti<tsrn (1711): When A|ax strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er uY unix-nding corn, and skims along the main. Another device of emphasis may be seen in lines which... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 pages
...of Pope, in which, illustrating the rule that 'the sound should be an echo to the sense', he says: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn or skims along the main. Essay on Criticism CHAPTER 34 Pythagoras, Egyptian Deities, Oracles PYTHAGORAS... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1994 - 376 pages
...Sound must seem an Eccho to the Sense," asserts Pope before providing several illustrative examples: Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...Surges lash the sounding Shore, The hoarse, rough Vfcrsishou'd like the Torrent TOUT. When Ajax strives, some Rocks' vast Weight to throw, The Line too... | |
 | Kevin J. H. Dettmar - 1996 - 300 pages
...form in poetry: 'Tis not enough no Harshness gives Offence, The Sound must seem an Eccho to the Sense. Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...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,... | |
 | András Horn - 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,...o'er th" unbending corn, and skims along the main. Um nur zwei Mittel der prosodisch bewerkstelligten Verlangsamung hervorzuheben: Im 2. Vers sind sogar... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gendy blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;...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, Flies... | |
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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... 
