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... A System of Phrenology - Page 410by George Combe - 1837 - 664 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...should like the torrent roar. When Ajrtx strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too lahours, and the words move slow : "Not. so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the' unhending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Tiraothens' varied lays surprise, And hid alternate... | |
| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...should like the torrent roar r 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. Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 340 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.' The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 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, ^lics o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the ^ main. Hear how Timothens' varicd lays surprise,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. [throw, When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to to taste — 'tis sense: Good sense, which only is...the gift of Heaven, And, and tho' no science, fai th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus varied lays surprise. And bid alternate... | |
| George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pages
...to attempt it. Had his lines " When Ajax strives some mighty 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," been all the author meant them in this respest, the... | |
| Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1810 - 514 pages
...shore, '' The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar " When AJAX strives some rock's vast weight to throw, " The line too labors, and the words...when swift CAMILLA scours the plain, " Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. " Hear how TIMOTUEUS' vary'd lays surprise, " And bid... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to thiow, 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 aloi^ the main From these lines, laboured wiih great attention,, and... | |
| 1810 - 462 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 From these lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...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; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
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