 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 line...  The British Essayists: The Rambler - Page 203by Alexander Chalmers - 1802Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...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' unbending corn, and skims along tli« Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, [mais. And bid alternate passions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...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 - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...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... | |
 | Art - 1808 - 674 pages
...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough Terse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to 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... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1796 - 458 pages
...land target lath the founding store, The koarse rough verse should like the torrent roar* .When Ajax strives some rock's vast -weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Mot so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, o'er tlr unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...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... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...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... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...introduceth a line of the same kind a little after in the same piece, to represent uncommon speed : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main J. A most wonderful and peculiar felicity in this measure to be alike... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 304 pages
...loud billows 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...Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th* unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated by... | |
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