...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,...roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to tkrow, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Slow Motion imitated.^ Swift and easy Motion....

...with learned spleen devoured, Can taste no pleasure since his shietd was scoured Pope. When \ |.i\ strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line...and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scaurs the plain. Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Id. Essay on Criticism....

...millions odds to one against any single thnw that the assigned order will not be cast. Benllev's Sermons. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Pope. The oddness of the proposition taught others to reflect a little ; and the bill was thrown out....

...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...

...(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...

...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...

...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...

...260. Camilla. Pope, illustrating the rule that " the sound should be an echo to the sense," says : 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 th' unbending...

...effort to return it. Work as hard as you can at your poem, but don't allow the effect to be labored. ''When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, the line too labors;" but the athletic performances of Ajax are out of place in a poem on love or May. Kythm is...

...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...