 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 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 strives some rock's vast weight to thiow, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 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 strives some rock's vast weight to thiow, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,... | |
 | 1810 - 590 pàgines
...pronunciation. With respect to the two following lines, which your correspondent has extracted from Pope : " When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, " The line too labors, and the words move slow" — he says, that the first consists almost entirely of long syllables,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pàgines
...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The horse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax...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.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pàgines
...smooth stream in smoother number flows ; But when loud surges 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 : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 516 pàgines
...smooth stream in smoother number flows ; But when loud surges 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: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er tlv" unbending corn, and skims along the main.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pàgines
...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, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main—-... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pàgines
...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar, Slow Motion. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words more slow. Swift and Easy. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn... | |
 | Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 pàgines
...lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slaw motion, imitated.. When Ajax. strives some rock's vast weight to throw), ,The line too labors, and the words move slow.. Swift and easy motion^ Not so when swift Camilia scouts the plain,,... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 pàgines
...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...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 37 1 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... 
