 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 should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 276by Alexander Pope - 1822 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...be:— " 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; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main."... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...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 ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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 ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the nuim... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...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; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main."... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...the strain when Zephyr gently blow?, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough...throw The line too. labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...sounding Shore, The hoarse, rough Vfcrsishou'd like the Torrent TOUT. When Ajax strives, some Rocks' vast Weight to throw, The Line too labours, and the Words move slour, Not so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies o'er th' unbending Corn, and skims along... | |
 | David Baker - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 400 pages
...Faber & Faber Ltd. Copyright 1953 by Theodore Roethke. And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...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 th ' unbending... | |
 | David Baker - Poetry - 1996 - 404 pages
...Roethke. 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...should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock 's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla... | |
 | Kevin J. H. Dettmar - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 300 pages
...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 shou'd like the Torrent roar. When Ajax strives, some Rock's vast weight to throw, The Line too labours,... | |
 | Hildegard L. C. Tristram - British literature - 1997 - 272 pages
...syllables in unstressed positions in "An Essay on Criticism" (11. 370-1): When/4/ox strives some Rocks' vast weight to throw, The Line too labours, and the Words move slow; (cf. Küper p. 191) In terms of this analysis, the relationship between the plane of abstract metre... | |
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