 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...  A System of Phrenology - Pagina 334door George Combe - 1860 - 492 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1808 - 674 pagina’s
...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. Essay on Criticism. Johnson, indeed, has remarked, and endeavoured to prove, that Pope failed... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pagina’s
...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...Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, [main. And hid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pagina’s
...the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and (lie words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours...Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, [main. And bid alternate passions fall and rise I While at... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pagina’s
...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajaa strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words...flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! While at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pagina’s
...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...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 of foot, he tried... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pagina’s
...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words more slow. Swift and Easy. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main. Felling Trees. Loud sounds the axe redoubling strokes on strokes r On all sides round the forest... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pagina’s
...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...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. Who steals my purse,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 pagina’s
...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; On all sides ronnd... | |
 | 1856 - 834 pagina’s
...if your life was at stake, and travel will not give up its sweets to such a surface-skimmer. Pope's Camilla " Scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." I stay to reap the com, and to fish in the sea. M ANTON. — You are talking of seafishing ;... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pagina’s
...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...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 us, and to Expatiate... | |
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