 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 424 sider
...shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. • When Ajax strives some rock's vust weight to throw. The line too labours, and the words move slow ; JNTot so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er '. !>' unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 294 sider
...Bat when load 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, w brn swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er Hi' unbending corn, and skims along tbe... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 sider
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar r 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.... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 sider
...weight his huge arm strive to shove, The verse too labours, the throng*d words scarce move. PITT. \Vben Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. POPE. It appears highly probable, that in these, and in some other examples which might be selected, Pitt... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 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... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 702 sider
...strive to shove, The verse too labours, the throng'd words scarce move. PITT. When Ajax strives seme rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. POPE. It appears highly probable, that in these, and in some other examples which might be selected, Pitt... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 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 (lie words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the' unbending corn,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 sider
...lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. 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.... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 sider
...kind ought to be a caution to others not to attempt it. Had his lines " When Ajax strives some mighty 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 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 the... | |
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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... 
