...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line loo labours, and the words move slow; 371 Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along tli« Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, [mais. And bid alternate passions fall and rise, 375...

...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet wlio tells us, that When When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...o'er th' 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...

...introduceth a line of the same kind a little after in the same piece, to represent uncommon speed : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main J. A most wonderful and peculiar felicity in this measure to be alike adapted to imitate the opposite...

...introduceth a line of the same kind .a little after in the same piece, to represent uncommon speed : Not so. when, swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn,. and skims along, the mainj. A most wonderful and 'peculiar felicity in this measure to be alike adapted to ^mitate the opposite...

...when loud surges lash the sounding shore, •f The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. " When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main." The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines, puts me in mind of a description in Homer's...

...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 plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims jlong the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated by a rival wit, may...

...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 main.* The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines puts me in mind of a description in Homer's...

...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the tioet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...o'er th' 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...

...when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrentroar: ^/Vhen Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw , The...o'er th' unbending corn , and skims along the main. Hear how Timothens' vary?d.lays surprise , And bid alternate passions Tall and rise ! "While at each...

...should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. The beautiful Distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines, puts me in mind of a description in Homer's...