...perpetually varied, fo as to exprefs the beauty above fpokcn of. Not fo, wlien ftrift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays furprize, And bid alternate paflions fall and rife ! 375 While, at...

...sense. Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the bmooth stream in smoother numbers fle But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent ra When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to th The line too labours, and the words move slow Not...

...very large stone, I may call ka rock;—'a vast weight for AjaxY ' See ante, p. 185. * In 1715. 1 ' When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line too labours, and the words move slow.' Pope, Essay on Criticism, \. 370. The tradition is, that a giant...

...as a beautiful example of adapting the sound to the sense. And the smooth stream in smoother number? flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough Terse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too...

...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, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending...

...concluding couplet: 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 f. An attempt of the same kind of conformity of the sound to the sense, is perhaps but too discernible...

...strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in soioothcr numbers flows. But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajai strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words more slow ; Not...

...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,...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, ' The line too labours, and the words move slow i • Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, ' Flies o'er th'...

...strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbersßaws ; Eut when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move »low ; Not so 4uh¿n sitiift Camilla scours the p lain, Flits o'er the...

...the sense. 365 Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,...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...