 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...  The Review of Reviews - Page 472edited by - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 pages
...But when loud billows 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 labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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 labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...403But 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 labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrentroar. sten'd feet begin to bind, labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...same kind of beauty in the numbers, that the poet recommends in his excellent Essay on Criticism ? When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, mnd the words move slow. 648. There is a similar beauty in the following lines, They saw them... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pages
...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 labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | Samuel Oliver (jun.) - 1825 - 418 pages
...the effect is produced chiefly by a recurrence of accented syllables and of pauses : .... ( . ^ .. , When' A'jax' strives'' some' rock's' vast' weight'' to throw', The line'' too'' la'bors," and the verse " moves.'' slow'. And,'" like' a woun'ded snake,'" drags'' its' slow' length'' along'. Up' '... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough vetse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Sanft and easy motion. Not so when swift .Camilla scours the plain,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...principles of representative harmony, it will be 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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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 labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending... | |
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