| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 454 páginas
...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 so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flieso'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 532 páginas
...sufficient to 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...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 of... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...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...when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 páginas
...sufficient to 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 th' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 páginas
...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...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and... | |
| William Scott - 1825 - 382 páginas
...hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the words move slow ;...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.— Pop* 20. Good name; in man and woman Is the immediate... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 páginas
...sufficient to 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 • iVr ill' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed, for about thirty years,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent ronr. When Ajax strives some roek's vast weight to thro.v. and Bob, First in every wieked job, Son and brother to a queer Brain-siek seours the plain. Flies o'er th' unbending eorn, and skims along t¡'-j Hear how Timotheus' vary'd... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 páginas
...labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' uubending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed, for about thirty years, the-praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, tried another experiment upon sound and time, and produced... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 páginas
...sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, d Co. unbending corn, and skims along the main; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of... | |
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