...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, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." As an exercise in Onomatopoeia, the student may select such words as he can recall in which the sound...

...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, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." As an exercise in Onomatopoeia, the student may select such words as he can recall in which the sound...

...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 Timotheus* varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While, at each...

...rock's vast weight to throw, 170 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 Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! 175 While, at...

...the surface only of things in general ; it cannot inquire, examine, and adjust. Like Camilla, " it scours the plain, flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." Yet we must in justice say that the summary is very judiciously narrated ; nor are there wanting, or,...

...some rock's vast weight to throw. The words, too, labour, and the line moves slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, — Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.'' Our last will not be deemed the least in wit, point, or power. It is from the pen of the well-known...

...some rock's vast weight to throw, The words, too, labour, and the line moves slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, — Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." Our last will not be deemed the least in wit, point, or power. It is from the pen of the well-known...

...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." The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines puts me in mind of a description in Homer's...

...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." The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines puts me in mind of a description in Homer's...

...tumbling to the shore. Iliad, xiii. 1004. The last shall be of rapid motion prolonged : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Essay mi Crit. SIS. Again, speaking of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain : Still gath'ring force,...