 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : rength and colour of our life. Pleasures are ever...prospect, rise : Present to grasp, and future stil the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus'2 varied lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pages
...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 main. Pope's Essay on Criticism. Let us compare these lines... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...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 main. Pope's Essay on Criticism. Let us compare these lines... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...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 main. Pope's Estay on Criticitm. Let us compare these lines... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us, that When Aj;tx strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...too labour?, and the worda move slow : >* ot so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er the Hold thy Pindaric Pesrasus closely in, Which does...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to thro*. xl l "" main. The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines, puts me in mind of a description in... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pages
...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,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' vary M lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! While at each change,... | |
 | 1844 - 734 pages
...MAG. VOL. 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,...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays1 surprise, And bid alternate... | |
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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 like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives... 
