 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...numbers can fix the principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 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,...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er lh' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 798 pages
...Id. VVhilome I've seen her skim the clouted cream, And press from spongy curds the milky stream. Gay. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain. Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and ikims along the main. Pope. Such as have active spirits, who are ever skimming... | |
 | George Combe - 1830 - 738 pages
...shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name " J " When AJAX strives some rock's huge weight to throw, The line too, labours, and the words...so when swift CAMILLA scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." POPE. Mr WATSON observes, that, in SHERIDAN, Individuality... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. POPE. 42. — ON MAN. LET us (since life can little more... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...surges lash the sounding shore. The honree rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strive« some rock's vast weight to throw. The line too labours,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the Збб No. 254.] foregoing lines, puts me in mind of a description... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1837 - 702 pages
...Glass's choicest preparations. Away we went, realising the poet's description of Ajax and Camilla: " When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain. Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." We resembled Reason and Hope, or one of Pickford's barges... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajai the foundation of an empire. His subject is the fate...revolutions of heaven and of earth ; rebellion against th plnin, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main : when he had enjoyed for about thirty... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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,...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 650 pages
...Falconer : ' When great Mseonides with rapid song The thundering tide of battle rolls along ;' or Pope: ' When Ajax strives some rock's vast •weight to throw,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main ;' but when the passions are to be moved or the feelings... | |
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 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... 
