 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...  A System of Phrenology - Página 410de George Combe - 1837 - 664 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...the poet,, who tell* ns, When Ajax strives some rtick's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Files o'cf th' unbending corn, ami skinis along the main ; wheti he had enjoyed for about thirty years... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 páginas
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 páginas
...should like the torrent row. 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 skimt along the main. The beautiful Distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines,... | |
 | Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 páginas
...rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slaw motion, imitated.. When Ajax. strives some rock's vast weight to throw), ,The line too labors, and the words move slow.. Swift and easy motion^ Not so when swift Camilia scouts the plain,, lilct o'er th' unbending corn,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rork's vast weight to ihrow, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unhending corn, and skims along the main — when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
 | Basil Richard Barrett - 1812 - 188 páginas
...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, &:c. Suppose, then, a writer to affect only bare perspicuity.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 352 páginas
...hi like the torrent roar* When Ajax strives some rock,s vast wcight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o,er th1 unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 páginas
...torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labors, ami the wards move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th" unbending corn, and skims along the main.— — Pops. * 20. Good name in man and woman Is the... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 páginas
...extent of reading, and. "When Ajax strives some rock's \rast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flees o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' • various lays surprise,... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 páginas
...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labors, and the words...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th1 unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope, 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate... | |
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