| 1729 - 314 páginas
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...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 of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another... | |
| George Campbell - 1801 - 404 páginas
...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... | |
| George Campbell - 1801 - 404 páginas
...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... | |
| 1803 - 372 páginas
...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, puts me in mind of a description in Homer's... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 páginas
...rock's vast weight to throw, The line 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. The beautiful Distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines, puts me in mind of a description in Homer's... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 páginas
...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 of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 páginas
...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 Timothens' vary?d.lays surprise , And bid alternate passions Tall and rise ! "While at each... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 páginas
...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. ftfe. To SCOUR, vn i. To perform the office of cleaning domestick utensils. I keep his house, nnd wash,... | |
| 1806 - 408 páginas
...rock's vast weight to throw, Ths 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. Hear how Tiinotheus' vary'd lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While, at each... | |
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