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... Lives - Σελίδα 565επεξεργασία από - 1800Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 σελίδες
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrentroar. sten'd feet begin to bind, Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, [main. And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 454 σελίδες
...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,...slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flieso'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 384 σελίδες
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Nut so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 σελίδες
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...years, the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, tried another experiment upon sound and time, and produced this memorable triplet : Waller was smooth... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 σελίδες
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us, that, When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, tried another experiment upon sound and time, and produced this memorable triplet ; Waller was smooth... | |
| Howard Felperin - 1985 - 228 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
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