 ... 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 too labours, and the words...  The Spectator - Page 151729Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1722 - 294 pages
...A]ax ftrives, fome rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow; Not fo when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and (kims along the main. Hear how * Timotheus' various lays furprize, And bid alternate paffions fall... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...Ajax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow: 371 Not fo, when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and ikims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays furprize, And, bid alternate paffions fall and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 316 pages
...ax flrives fome rock's vail: weight to throw> The line too labours, and the words move flow: 371 Not fo, when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkims along the main. NOTES. tice has violated the Very End of the precept, which is the encreafe of... | |
 | John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...Ajax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow ; Not fo when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkims along the main. But before we fpeak of the feveral forts of ftyle, it will be proper to take... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1762 - 480 pages
...foaming high, and tumbling to the Ihore. xiii. 1004. The laft fhall be of rapid motion prolonged: Not lb when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and Ikiras along the main. Eflay on Crit. Again, fpeaking of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain, Still... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1762 - 478 pages
...and tumbling to the fhore. Iliad, xiii. 1004. The laft fhall be of rapid motion prolonged : Not (b when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkims along the main. EffayonCrit. 373. Again, fpeaking of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain,... | |
 | Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton - Latin poetry - 1763 - 372 pages
...Ajax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow ; Not fo, when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkirns along the main. 3 *' From 262 THE jENEID. Book 7The crowds all gaze with tranfport, to furvey... | |
 | Virgil - 1763 - 376 pages
...Ajax itrives fome rock's vail weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow; flot fo, when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkirns along the main. 3 " From The crowds all gaze with tranfport, to furvey f 04 £ Loofc in the... | |
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