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... Specimens of the British poets - Page 15by British poets - 1809Full view - About this book
| 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 the main. Essay on Criticism.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet wlio tells us, that When When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line...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... | |
| 1803 - 372 pages
...surges lash the sounding shore, •f The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. " When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, " The line...when swift Camilla scours the plain, " Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main." The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines,... | |
| 1803 - 290 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...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims jlong the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrentroar: ^/Vhen Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw , The line..., when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o'er th' unbending corn , and skims along the main. Hear how Timothens' vary?d.lays surprise , And bid alternate... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the tioet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...shield, The steeds witho1.. t their rulers tcvur the iieid, The knights unliors'd. T)r\din. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th* unbending corn, and skims along the main. ftfe. To SCOUR, vn i. To perform the office of cleaning... | |
| 1806 - 408 pages
...scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Tiinotheus' vary'd lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and...Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love j. Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow : Persians... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pages
...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..., when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o'er th'unbending corn , and skims along the main.* POPE , on criticiim. PREMIÈRE TRADUCTION. Que le style... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...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...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain. Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.* VOL. i L These * Ver. 386. These lines are usually cited... | |
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