 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...sounding 5hore, The hoarse, rough verse should like tlie torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. 1 £«iy on CrUica*, 594. EVANESCENCE OF POETIC FAME.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...sounding 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...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.1 Eaal m Criticia*, 364. EVANESCENCE OF POETIC FAME. Be... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...should like the torrent ro:ir. 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 com, and skims along the main. ; strokes of this nature into a very fine poem I mean the Art of Criticism,*... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 pages
...sounding 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 move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla10 scours the plain, 5. THB HOPE OP AN HEREAFTER. — Campbell. What ia the bigot's torch, the... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...profound. forth rushed the waraderm*/ comers girt with flames. When Ajaa; strives some rocfc's vas< weight to throw, The line too labors and the words move slow. One bl&st upon his bugle-horrc were worth ten thousand men. Life's* fitful fever over, he resis well.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 460 pages
...along ; " Or Pope : — " 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, Flics o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main ;" but when the passions are to be moved or... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...them. 18. Ha ! laugh'st thou, Lochiel, my vision to scorn ? 20. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labors, and the words move slow. 21. And I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. 22. I battled with the waves, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...should like the torrent roar. When Aj ax 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 mam. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
 | 1859 - 414 pages
...sounding 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 move slow." The reader will perceive Ьот easily the poet can muster together hosts of loud sounding vowels,... | |
 | Robert Scholes - 1978 - 1398 pages
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