... 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 too... Blackwood's Magazine - Página 3051856Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 532 páginas
...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 of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another... | |
| 1824 - 408 páginas
...when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. ****** Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." There is, then, a constant propensity in the English ear to rest upon consonant sounds, and particularly... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...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. Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at each... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 páginas
...some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift pe when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 páginas
...with a due proportion of liquids, and a happy arrangement of vowels and accents. Not no when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. The euphony of the Italian, in which it is distinguished from all other languages, consists chiefly... | |
| William Scott - 1829 - 420 páginas
...reek's vast weight- to throvr, 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. Pope. 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse, steals... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 páginas
...unbend your noble strength, to think So brain-sickly of things. Shakspeare. Macbeth . Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope. Ye noble few, who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressures, yet a little while, And all... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 páginas
...vast weight to throw. The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scaurs the plain. Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Id. Essay on Criticism. SCOURGE, ns & va Fr. escoweie ; Ital. scoreggia ; Lat. corregia. A whip ; lash... | |
| George Combe - 1830 - 732 páginas
...some rock's huge weight to throw, The line too, labours, and the words move slow ; r Not so when swift CAMILLA scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." POPE. Mr WATSON observes, that, in SHERIDAN, Individuality and Eventuality are large, and Comparison... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 páginas
...rock's vast weight to throw The line too labours, and the words move slow : 37Í Not so, when swift / Hear how Timotheus' varied lavs surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While, at each... | |
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