 | English essays - 1729 - 314 pages
...vaft Weight to throw, The Line too labours, and the Words move flow; Het fo, when fwift Camilla fcours the Plain, flies o'er th' unbending Corn, and skims along the Main. THE beautiful Diftich upon Ajax in the foregoing Lines, puts me in Mind of a Defcription in Homer's... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...When Ajax 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' unbending corn, and skims along tli« Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, [mais. And bid alternate passions fall and rise, 375... | |
 | Art - 1808 - 674 pages
...hoarse rough Terse 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 iwift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Essay on Criticism.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...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...o'er th' 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 another... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...introduceth a line of the same kind a little after in the same piece, to represent uncommon speed : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main J. A most wonderful and peculiar felicity in this measure to be alike adapted to imitate the opposite... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...fwift Camilla fcours the plain, , Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkirns along the main. From thefe lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged what can be expedited from the, moft diligent endeavours after this imagery of found. The verfe intended to reprefent... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...introduceth a line of the same kind .a little after in the same piece, to represent uncommon speed : Not so. when, swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn,. and skims along, the mainj. A most wonderful and 'peculiar felicity in this measure to be alike adapted to ^mitate the opposite... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...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 , "...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main." The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines, puts me in mind of a description in Homer's... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 290 pages
...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...the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims jlong the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated by a rival wit, may... | |
 | 1803 - 412 pages
...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow j • 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 puts me in mind of a description in Homer's... | |
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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 line... 
