 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...raises, by the difficulty of pronouncing contrary to custom, a feeling similar to that of hard labour: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Essay on Crit. 370. which proceeds from the labour of thought to a dull writer: Just writes to make... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...sense : 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...Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the e. 4 42.— On Man. LET us (since life can little more su: Than just to look about us, and to Expatiate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 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,...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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...sense : Soft is the strain when Zt phyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rocks vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 pages
...marble floor Of some old temple wide. In the succeeding lines, we perceive that slow motion is imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. In the next example, the verse resembles swift and easy motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar, ' Slow Motion. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,, The line too labours, and the words move slow. . •Swift and Easy. I Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 pages
...strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 456 pages
...strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. jFrom these lines, laboured with great attention,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; Hut when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse...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, Dies o'er th'unbending... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother nun bers flows J But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,. The Hue, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours -the plain, Flies o'er... | |
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 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... 
