 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - Liczba stron: 412
...sufficient to 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...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, he tried another... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Liczba stron: 404
...that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line two labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift...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, he tried another... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Liczba stron: 456
...hoarse 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, Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. jFrom these lines, laboured with great attention,... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - Liczba stron: 422
...should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,. The Hue, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours -the plain, Flies o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main.— — Pojie. 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - Liczba stron: 434
...should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so -when swift Camilla scours the plain, Dies o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main » • Pope. 20. Good name in man and woman Is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - Liczba stron: 406
...sufficient to 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...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, he tried another... | |
 | 1833 - Liczba stron: 546
...the wrong words, particularly the article, — • " Notta — so — when — swift — Cd-mil-ld scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. To return to our old acquaintance Madame de Stahl. — This lady's autobiography is of undoubted authenticity,... | |
 | 1822 - Liczba stron: 284
...hoarse 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 Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, [main. And bid alternate... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - Liczba stron: 230
...hoarse, 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." FROM BLAIR'S LECTURES. CHAP. III. On Figures. FIGURES... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - Liczba stron: 428
...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to 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 main. Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, . . , And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! 375 While... | |
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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... 
