 | 1768 - 450 pages
...shore, The hoarfe rotigh verfe shou'd like the torrent rore. When AJKK ftrives Corne Rock's vaft weigth to throw , The line too labours , and the words move slow; Not fo'when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Files o' er the unbending corn, and skiras along the main.... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...stone, I may call ka rock ; — ' a vast weight for AjaxY 1 See ante, p. 185. * In 1715. 1 ' When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow.' Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 370. The A sandy dcsart. The tradition is, that a giant threw such another... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...of heauty in the numhers, that the poet recommends in his excellent issay on Criticism ? When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the wcrds move slow. 661. — noav gross hy sinning grown.] \Vhat a tsne moral does Milton here inculcate,... | |
 | Art - 1808 - 674 pages
...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough Terse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so when iwift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Essay on Criticism.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet wlio tells us, that When When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line...and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed for... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...occasions a very drawling movement. Another example I shall take from the same author : / Wherf Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow J. Sect. III. Words considered as sounds. In the first of these lines the harsh combinations of consonants... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 290 pages
...loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line...and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims jlong the main. From these lines, laboured... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...surges lash the sounding shore, •f The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. " When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, " The line...the words move slow , " Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, " Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main." The beautiful distich... | |
 | 1803 - 412 pages
...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When. Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow j • Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | Adrian Hardy Haworth - Lepidoptera - 1803 - 430 pages
...loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar; . When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move »low ; Not so 4uh¿n sitiift Camilla scours the p lain, Flits o'er the unbending corn, and skims along... | |
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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 some rock's vast weight to throw, The line... 
