...strain when Zephyr gently blow?, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should...slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise,...

...song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. And afterwards, But when loud surges lasb the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The Hne too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er...

...numbers flows ; '. But when loud -surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight...throw, The line, too, labours, and the words move slow j Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, « Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the...

...pause, which occasions à very drawlhvg movement. Another example I shall take from the same author: 'When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labour«, and the words move slow **). In the iira t of these lines the harsh combination« of consonants...

...Ilion falls, Hursts her strong gates, and shakes her lofty walls ; Provokes his flying courser to his speed, In full career to charge the warlike steed...slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flieso'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention,...

...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: Nut so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main...

...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." But this accordance, this " echo of the sound to the sense," cannot be attained in many languages....

...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 whelm'd,...

...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, Flies o'er th' unbending corn,...

...strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother number-- flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rocks' vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so when swift...