 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 sidor
...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 - 1786 - 552 sidor
...large 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,...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 stone at his... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 sidor
...same kind 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... | |
 | 1796 - 458 sidor
...Hal wtai 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 mail. (To... | |
 | 1808 - 674 sidor
...But when 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 sidor
...principles of 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 the main... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 sidor
...pause, which occasions a very drawling movement. Another example I shall take from the same author : When 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 of consonants... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 sidor
...which 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 of consonants... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 448 sidor
...known to himself, he desired that a clause might be inserted for excepting the family of the Drues. The oddness of the proposition taught others to reflect a little ; and the bill was thrown out. Whether I were mistaken, or went too far in examining the dependency, must be left to the impartial... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 448 sidor
...known to himself, he desired that a clause might be inserted for excepting the family of the Drues. The oddness of the proposition taught others to reflect a little ; and the bill was thrown out. . . Whether I were mistaken, or went too far in examining the dependency, must be left to the... | |
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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... 
