| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main— when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rocks vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the...unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at each change, the... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...the sense : Soft is the strain when Zt phyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,...should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rocks vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 pages
...strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 456 pages
...strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. jFrom these lines, laboured with great attention,... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; Hut when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse...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, Dies o'er th'unbending... | |
| William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother nun bers flows J But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,. The Hue, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours -the plain, Flies o'er... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...sounding shore, The hoarse ronghi verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some roi k's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and...when swift Camilla scours the plain, , Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope. 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 406 pages
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
| William Jillard Hort - English language - 1822 - 230 pages
...very subject. " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." FROM BLAIR'S LECTURES. CHAP. III. On Figures. FIGURES of speech always imply some departure from simplicity... | |
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