 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...verse should like the torrent roar. [throw. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to The line too labours, and the words move slow, Not so, when swift Camilla scours tlieplain,[maia Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timotheus'" various lays... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...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 : Not so when...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention , and celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged what... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...rough terse should like the torrent row. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when...scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skimt along the main. The beautiful Distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines, puts me in mind of a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...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—- when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
 | Basil Richard Barrett - Aesthetics - 1812 - 188 pages
...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 : Not so, when...o'er th* unbending corn, and skims along the main, &:c. Suppose, then, a writer to affect only bare perspicuity. The properties of this species -of style... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 352 pages
...verse shoi, hi like the torrent roar* When Ajax strives some rock,s vast wcight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o,er th1 unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rork's vast weight to ihrow, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unhending corn, and skims along the main — when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
 | Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 pages
...-Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to 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 the mum. Hear how Timotheus" vary'd lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! 375 While... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labors, ami the wards move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,...o'er th" unbending corn, and skims along the main.— — Pops. * 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate jewi 1 of their sowls. Who steals my purse,... | |
 | Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...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 :• Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. POPE, II. Good name, in man or woman, Js the immediate... | |
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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 line... 
