| William Scott - 1819 - 366 páginas
...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 - 1821 - 406 páginas
...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 - 1822 - 230 páginas
...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, The...Flies 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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 páginas
...sense. 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...Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, [main. And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 páginas
...AlexIMITATIONS. Ver. 366. Soft is the strain, <$'c.] " Tum si laeta canunt,'' &c. Vida, Poet, 1. iii. ver. 403. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 páginas
...AlexIMITATIONS. Ver. 366. Soft is the strain, Ifc.} " Turn si laeta canunt,'' &c. Vida, Poet, 1. iii. ver. 403. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, . Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 308 páginas
...harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rook's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the...Flies 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... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 páginas
...lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. . Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Swift and easy motion. Not so when swift Camilla scout's the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn,... | |
| 1822 - 436 páginas
...speaks, he tires ; and his laboured prose of style always brings to our recollection the lines, — " When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow." Should the play be repeated, our animadversions on the other characters will be resumed. The after-piece... | |
| William Banks - 1823 - 462 páginas
...sense. 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...Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main." " Of Inversion. SOME languages in regard to the arrangement that usually obtains in them, have... | |
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