 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...  Carmina - Side 317af Virgil - 1857 - 415 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1808 - 674 sider
...some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so when iwift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending...corn, and skims along the main. Essay on Criticism. Johnson, indeed, has remarked, and endeavoured to prove, that Pope failed in this instance. But, of... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 sider
...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 corn, and skims along the Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, [main. And hid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 sider
...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and (lie words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, [main. And bid alternate passions fall and rise I While at... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 sider
...When Ajaa 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 corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! While at each change... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 sider
...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words more slow. Swift and Easy. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main. Felling Trees. Loud sounds the axe redoubling strokes on strokes r On all sides round the forest hurls... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 sider
...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 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... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 sider
...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 corn, and skims along the main. POPE, II. Good name, in man or woman, Js the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse, steals... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 sider
...rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Srvift and Easy Motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Felling Trees in a Wood. Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes; On all sides ronnd the... | |
 | 1856 - 834 sider
...if your life was at stake, and travel will not give up its sweets to such a surface-skimmer. Pope's Camilla " Scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." I stay to reap the com, and to fish in the sea. M ANTON. — You are talking of seafishing ; what lazy... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 458 sider
...foaming high, and tumbling to the shore. Iliad, xiii. 1004. The last shall be of rapid motion prolonged: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies...unbending corn, and skims along the main. Essay on Crit. 373. Again, speaking of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain: Still gath'ring force, it smokes,... | |
| |
