 | Thomas R. Arp - 2004 - 455 Seiten
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 | R. B. Serjeant, R. L. Bidwell - 2005 - 208 Seiten
...Wolf, thou wailest. Surely these lives of ours, thine and my own, go empty, robbed of prosperity. 72 * When Ajax strives, some Rock's vast Weight to throw. The Line too labours, and the Words move slow. Alexander Pope, An essay on criticism, 11. 370-1. t Not so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies... | |
 | Peter Childs, Roger Fowler - 2006 - 280 Seiten
...in pronunciation). All are exemplified in Alexander Pope's famous exercise 'An Essay in Criticism': When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flie o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main.... | |
 | Arthur Plotnik - 2005 - 280 Seiten
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 | Alexander Pope - 2006 - 420 Seiten
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 | Alexander Pope - 2006 - 770 Seiten
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 | Ernest Pertwee - 2006 - 281 Seiten
...appearance together.' Note the melody and strength in these four lines from Pope's Essay on Criticism : ' Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar' The following excerpt, full of imagination, is by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: — ' Nothing is small... | |
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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... 
