 Eighthly; a long syllable made short, or a short syllable made long, raises, by the difficulty of pronouncing contrary to custom, a feeling similar to that of hard labor: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the...  Elements of Criticism - Page 301by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1844 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...very large stone, I may call ka rock;—'a vast weight for AjaxY ' 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, \. 370. The tradition is, that a giant... | |
 | Art - 1808 - 674 pages
...But when 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; Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Not so when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...principles of 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 too labours, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | Adrian Hardy Haworth - Lepidoptera - 1803 - 430 pages
...Eut when 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... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...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 too labours, and the words move slow i • Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, ' Flies o'er th'... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the tioet who tells us, that 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, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...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 too labours, and the words move slow: 371 Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1804 - 218 pages
...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 too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...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 too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain. Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 426 pages
...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 too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
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