 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
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1833 - 518 pages
...raises, by the difficulty of pronouncing contrary to custom, a feeling similar to that of hard labor : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow. Essay on Crit. 370. Just writes to make his barrenness appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...before. It was horrible, if barrenness and danger could be so." I heard him, after we were in (1) " When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow." — P0PE. the house of Breacacha, repeating to himself, as he walked... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 374 pages
...before. It was horrible, if barrenness and danger could be so." I heard him, after we were in (1) " When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow." — POPE. the house of Breacacha, repeating to himself, as he walked... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's v&st 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.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 334 pages
...metre, has in a great measure tended to destroy them. The partial success of the imitationf is too When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too lab'ring, each dragg'd word moves slow. Lovelier the light Camilla skims the plain, Shoots o'er th'... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...But when loud surge!) lash the Hounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. racles labours, and the words move slow ; Not BO. when swift Camilla scour* the plain. Flies o'er llr unbending... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. lahours, and the words move slow : 370 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the... | |
 | George Combe - 1837 - 740 pages
...following illustrations are furnished chiefly by Eventuality. " When Ajax strives some rock's huge 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."... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837 - 702 pages
...Glass's choicest preparations. Away we went, realising the poet's description of Ajax and Camilla: " 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... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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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