 | 1751 - 224 σελίδες
...founding Jhore, The hoarfe rough verfe /hould like the torrent roar. When K^flrivesfome rock'svafl weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move /low ; Notfo when fiuift Camilla fcours the plain, FHeso'ertl? unbending cern, and Jkims along themain.... | |
 | 726 σελίδες
...fhore, The hoarfe, rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar j When Ajax ftrives fome ftone'i* vaft weight to throw, The line .too labours, and the words move (low : Not fo when fsvift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and (kirns along The plain.... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 σελίδες
...strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the otnooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line loo labours, and the words move slow; 371 Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th'... | |
 | 1785 - 596 σελίδες
...founding than, The hoarfe rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar. When AJ3X drives fo'me rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move (low; Not fo when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flic* o'er ih' unbending corn, and iklms along the main. From... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 σελίδες
...large stone, I may call ka rock ; — ' a vast weight for AjaxY 1 See ante, p. 185. * In 1715. 1 ' When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow.' Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 370. The A sandy dcsart. The tradition is, that a giant threw such... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 σελίδες
...same kind of heauty in the numhers, that the poet recommends in his excellent issay on Criticism ? When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the wcrds move slow. 661. — noav gross hy sinning grown.] \Vhat a tsne moral does Milton here inculcate,... | |
 | 1808 - 674 σελίδες
...stream in smoother number? flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough Terse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 σελίδες
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet wlio tells us, that When 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... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 σελίδες
...which occasions a very drawling movement. Another example I shall take from the same author : / Wherf Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow J. Sect. III. Words considered as sounds. In the first of these lines the harsh combinations of... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 σελίδες
...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 f . An attempt of the same kind of conformity of the sound to the sense, is perhaps but too discernible... | |
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 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... 
