 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...loud billows 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...and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 638 pages
...loud billows 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...and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...loud -surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse 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 j Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, « Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The Hne 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. The beautiful distich upon... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrentroar. When Ajax t begin to bind, scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...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...and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main, Hear how Timotheus' vary'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...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...and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main, Hear how Timotheus' vary'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 384 pages
...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, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Nut so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line,...and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.— Pop* 20. Good name; in... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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...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 Timothens' varied... | |
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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... 
