 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 strani
...pause, which occasions à very drawlhvg movement. Another example I shall take from the same author: 'When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labour«, and the words move slow **). In the iira t of these lines the harsh combination« of consonants... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 strani
...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 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 strani
...403But 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 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 strani
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrentroar. sten'd feet begin to bind, ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 strani
...same kind of beauty in the numbers, that the poet recommends in his excellent Essay on Criticism ? When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, mnd the words move slow. 648. There is a similar beauty in the following lines, They saw them whelm'd,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 strani
...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, 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 strani
...; But 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, 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.—... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 strani
...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, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' uubending corn, and skims along the main... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 strani
...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 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.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 strani
...lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough vetse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Sanft and easy motion. Not so when swift .Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn,... | |
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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... 
