 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 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...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed, for about thirty years, the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, tried another... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...rough verse should like a 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.— Pop* 20. Good name; in man and woman Is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse, steals... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 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...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, tried another... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 524 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 th' uubending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed, for about thirty years, the-praise... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Sanft and easy motion. Not so when swift .Camilla scours the plain, Flies...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. * Sensual pleasure. „ Felling trees in a wood. Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes... | |
 | Roger Fowler - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 276 pages
...'An Essay on Criticism': When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line too lahours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th'unbendmg corn, and skims along the main. Samuel Jobnson, however, attempting to prove that the mind... | |
 | Carl Dahlhaus, Ruth Katz - 454 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 swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies o'er the unbending Corn, and skims along the Main. Hear how Timotheus vary'd Lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...Sense' (line 365), then illustrates it: 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 the Main. (II. 370-3) The Essay on Criticism is not, like most of... | |
 | John Douglas Canfield, J. Paul Hunter - Literary Collections - 1989 - 214 pages
...verse "must seem an Eccho to the Sense." 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. As he matures, however, he applies this principle in subtler and subtler ways — in fact, to the vanishing... | |
 | John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...toward a particular bit of narrative: 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 oe'r th'unbending Corn, and skims along the Main. Swift Camilla's fast six feet are uncontaminated by any... | |
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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... 
