 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 sider
...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 : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, . Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 308 sider
...harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rook'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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 sider
...hoarse rough verse slu.uld like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rj-ks vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Not so when swilt Camilla scours the plain. Flies o'er th" unbendmg corn, and.ekims a long the main.... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 sider
...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 corn and skims along the main."... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 sider
...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 th' unbending corn, and skims along the main."... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 sider
...But when loud billows 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 th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 sider
...But when lond 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, Flics o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 sider
...'. 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 to 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 sider
...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 th' unbending corn, and skims along the nuim... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 sider
...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 th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.... | |
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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... 
