 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 - Página 565editado por - 1800Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Douglas Canfield, J. Paul Hunter - 1989 - 214 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1969 - 412 páginas
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 | David Hopkins - 1990 - 269 páginas
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 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert DiYanni - 1990 - 1796 páginas
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 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 páginas
...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 corn, or skims along the main. Essay on Criticism. 268-281. On Norse mythology, see RB Anderson, Norse Mythology,... | |
 | Robert Neale - 1992 - 280 páginas
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 | Frank Northen Magill - 1992 - 520 páginas
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