 | Lindley Murray - 1835 - Počet stránok 260
...sounding shore, Tile hoarse, rough verse, should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. .Vhen Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Swift and easy motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - Počet stránok 506
...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajaz strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 370 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er vhe unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - Počet stránok 496
...The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - Počet stránok 504
...sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blow«, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flews; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...throw The line too labours, and the words move slow : 37( Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - Počet stránok 332
...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...throw, The line too. labours, and the words move slow : 370 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | Howard Felperin - 1985 - Počet stránok 228
...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 - Počet stránok 454
...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... | |
 | Roger Fowler - 1987 - Počet stránok 276
...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... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - Počet stránok 280
...is in fact mucking about with the truth about our lives. To return to Pope's examples fur 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 lambs (because... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1988 - Počet stránok 532
...(1711), Pope evoked Camilla as an image defining grace and fleetness of movement in verse: When Ajtu strives, some Rock's vast Weight to throw. The Line too labours, and the Words move slaw; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies o'er th'unbending Corn, and skims along the... | |
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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... 
