| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 464 páginas
...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,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged what... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 496 páginas
...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,...Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending coin, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated by... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 páginas
...torrent roar. much maturity of judgement, extent of reading, and. "When Ajax strives some rock's \rast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words...slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flees o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' • various lays surprise,... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 páginas
...foaming high, and tumbling to the shore. Iliad, xiii. 1004. The last shall be of rapid motion prolonged : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Ktsay on Crit. 373. Again speaking of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain : Still gath'ring force,... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 páginas
...foaming high, and tumbling to the shore. Iliad, xiii. 1004. The last shall be of rapid motion prolonged: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Essay on Crit. 373. Again, speaking of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain: Still gath'ring force,... | |
| William Scott - 1817 - 416 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 scours the plain, Flies o'er th1 unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope, 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 páginas
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main— when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 páginas
...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,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the e. 4 42.— On Man. LET us (since life can little more su:... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 páginas
...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rocks vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 páginas
...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,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged what... | |
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