 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 538 pages
...of happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase : Soft is the strain, when zephyr gently blows, And...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...terminating sound being / and n : so also is the celebrated passage of Pope, VOL. IX. PART II. U " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. ****** Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...art, not chance, As those move easiest who have 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 gertly blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...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 Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
..."nevertheless" here into a case of "because" (in the same passage from An Essay on Criticism quoted above): "But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, / The...hoarse, rough Verse should like the torrent roar." The effusive speaker of Browning's youthful Pauline, his poetic confidence flagging, vows, "So, I will... | |
 | Albert Wachtel - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 192 pages
...anticipated with a difference a century earlier in Pope's programmatically neoclassical Essay on Criticism: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. (11. 370-71) The distinction between Coleridge on the one hand and Flaubert and Pope on the other resides... | |
 | Joseph F. Graham - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 336 pages
...dash, flash . . . Note: These are distinguished as echoes internal to language. III.c. Kinaesthesis. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Note: Examples from Pope and Dryden are said to work by means of analogy rather than echo or image.... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...learned from An Essay on Criticism, particularly from Pope's examples of subjects requiring sibilance ("Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, / And the smooth Stream in smoother numbers flows") and from his illustrations of the mimetic effectiveness of "long Vowels ("drags its slow length along";... | |
 | Kevin J. H. Dettmar - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 300 pages
...expressive 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...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,... | |
 | Mary Oliver - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 212 pages
...art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense....hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know... | |
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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... 
