...sound must seem an echo to the sense. 365 Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the otnooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges...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'...

...large stone, I may call ka rock ; — ' a vast weight for AjaxY 1 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, 1. 370. Oct. 5.] The tradition is, that a giant threw such another...

...same kind of heauty in the numhers, that the poet recommends in his excellent issay on Criticism ? When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the wcrds move slow. 666. That undrr ground they fcught sn dhmal shade ;] It was a memorahle saying of...

...The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Hal wtai land target lath the founding store, The koarse rough verse should like the torrent roar* .When Ajax...-weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Mot so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, o'er tlr unbending corn, and skims along the...

...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...weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so when iwift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along...

...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that ih« poet w!io tells us, thaf i 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...

...pause, which occasions a very drawling movement. Another example I shall take from the same author : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow J. Sect III. Words considered as sounds. In the first of these lines the harsh combinations...

...which occasions a very drawling movement. Another example I shall take from the same author : / Wherf Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow J. Sect. III. Words considered as sounds. In the first of these lines the harsh combinations...

...when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth strc'arn in smoolher numbers flows; But when loud .'urges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.' Nor so, when swift Camilla scours...

...song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along.' And afterwards, • •• •-• < ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound...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...