 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 páginas
...great Mieonides with rapid song The thundering tide of battle rolls along ;' or Pope : ' When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line,...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main ;' but when the passions are to be moved or the feelings softened, nothing of the kind is ever attempted... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 páginas
...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...o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main. Pope's Essay on Criticism. Let us compare these lines with the translation of the correspondent passage... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 páginas
...The line too labour?, and the worda move slow : >* ot so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics y muse — Hold thy Pindaric Pesrasus closely in,...rage begin — — 'TU an unruly and a hard-mmiih'd smmd and time, tnd produced this memorable triplet: Waller was smooth ; bul Drydon taught to join The... | |
 | George Combe - 1842 - 524 páginas
...following illustrations are furnished chiefly by Eventuality : " When Ajax strives some rock's huge weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the words...plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along themain." Pope. Mr. Watson observes, that in Sheridan Individuality and Eventuality are large, and... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1808 - 658 páginas
...shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weigbt to throw, The line too labours, and the words move...the plain. Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims alonf the main. Eisay on Criticism. Johnson, indeed, has remarked, and endeavoured to prove, that Pope... | |
 | 1844 - 734 páginas
...XXI. verbial, being the one selected as an J See the lines in Pope's Essay on Criticism : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main. instance by Pope, is not so hyperbolical as will generally... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 páginas
...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...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' vary M lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...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...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays1 surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While, at each... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 páginas
...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 the unbending corn, and skims along the main." As an exercise in Onomatopoeia, the student may select such wordi u he can recall in which the sound... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1845 - 60 páginas
...should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vat£ weight to ttorow, The line too labors and the words move slow. Not so when swift Camilla...o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main." What student has not felt the thrilling influence of the noivtpioiopQtQ 4u;.«o-<n;ff of Hoiner ? Or... | |
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Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to 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, The hoarse, rough verse should... 
