 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...remark that the 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 the unbending corn, and skims along the main— when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 pages
...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...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged what... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...ronghi verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some roi k's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope. 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse, steals... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 404 pages
...that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line two labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 456 pages
...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, Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. jFrom these lines, laboured with great attention,... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,. The Hue, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours -the plain, Flies o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main.— — Pojie. 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...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 Camilla scours the plain, Dies o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main » • Pope. 20. Good name in man and woman Is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...remark that the 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...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... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 546 pages
...the wrong words, particularly the article, — • " Notta — so — when — swift — Cd-mil-ld scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. To return to our old acquaintance Madame de Stahl. — This lady's autobiography is of undoubted authenticity,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...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, Flies...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! 375 While at each... | |
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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... 
