 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...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...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. The beautiful Distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...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 too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flieso'erth' unbending... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...like the torrentroar: ^/Vhen 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. Hear how Timothens' vary?d.lays surprise , And bid alternate... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the tioet 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...within tin- shield, The steeds witho1.. t their rulers tcvur the iieid, The knights unliors'd. T)r\din. 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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...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 too labours, and the words move slow ; .' . . Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain. Flies o'er th'... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pages
...MEEK , MUD , KIND, GIKT1E. 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... | |
 | 1806 - 346 pages
...stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the soundsng 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 more slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Fl ies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...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.* VOL. i L These * Ver. 366. These lines are usually cited... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pages
...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.* tort, on ctiticitm. PREMIÈRE TRADUCTION. Que le style... | |
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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... 
