 | Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...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,...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 jewel of their souls.... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...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, too, labors, ami the wards move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th" unbending... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...torrent roar. much maturity of judgement, extent of reading, and. "When Ajax strives some rock's \rast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words...slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flees o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' • various lays surprise,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...raises, by the difficulty of pronouncing contrary to custom, a feeling similar to that of hard labour : When Ajax strives some rock's -vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Essay on Crit. 370. Ninthly, Harsh or rough words pronounced with difficulty, excite a feeling similar... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Srvift and Easy Motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Felling Trees in a Wood. Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes;... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...raises, by the difficulty of pronouncing contrary to custom, a feeling similar to that of hard labour: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Essay on Crit. 370. which proceeds from the labour of thought to a dull writer: Just writes to make... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...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, Flies o'er th1 unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope, 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...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,...scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the e. 4 42.— On Man. LET us (since life can little more su: Than just to look about... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...scours the plain Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main— when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar, ' Slow Motion. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,, The line too labours, and the words move slow. . •Swift and Easy. I Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and... | |
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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... 
