 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pàgines
...otnooth 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 loo labours, and the words move slow; 371 Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 pàgines
...laSh the founding Shore, The hoarfe, rough verfe Should like the torrent roar. When Ajax Strives fome rock's vaSt weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words moveflow: Not to when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and Skims alongthe... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pàgines
...large 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. Oct. 5.] The tradition is, that a giant threw such another stone... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 pàgines
...same kind 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. 666. That undrr ground they fcught sn dhmal shade ;] It was a memorahle saying of... | |
 | 1808 - 674 pàgines
...stream in smoother number? flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough Terse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pàgines
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that ih« poet w!io tells us, thaf i 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 corn, and skims along the main... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 pàgines
...pause, which occasions a very drawling movement. Another example I shall take from the same author : When 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... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 pàgines
...which 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 308 pàgines
...smooth strc'arn in smoolher numbers flows; But when loud .'urges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.' Nor so, when swift Camilla scours the plain,... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 304 pàgines
...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax...weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words more slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th* 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... 
