 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 412 pages
...blows, And the finooth ftream in fmoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lafh the founding fhore, The hoarfe, rough verfe mould like the torrent roar....to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flowi Not fo when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er tli' unbending corn, and flcims along... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 pages
...finoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lafh the founding fhore, The hoarfe, rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar. When Ajax ftrives fome rock's...throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow : Not fo when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkims along the main,... | |
 | John Hope - 1780 - 376 pages
...fmooth ftream in fmoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lafh the founding fhore, Thehoarfe, rough verfe mould like the torrent roar. When Ajax...throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow ; Not fo, when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkims along the main.... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1781 - 412 pages
...Ajax's efiort to throw a rock, and of the exprellion of that effort in words : When Ajax fhives Come rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow. The latter of thefe lines, in particular, is by no means of more difficult pronunciation than the generality... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1772 - 374 pages
...fmoother numbers flows; But when loud furges lafh the founding fhore, The hoarfe rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar; When Ajax ftrives fome rock's...throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow ; Not fo, when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and ikims along the niain... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...fmoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lafh the founding fhore, The hoarfe rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar. When Ajax ftrives fome rock's...throw» The line too labours, and the words move flow : Not Not fo when fwift Camilla fceurs the plain, Flies o'er th'unbending corn, and fkims along the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 372 pages
...fmoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lafh the founding fhore, . The hoarfe rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar. When Ajax ftrives fome rock's...throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow ; Not fo when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, . Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkims along the... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...Smoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lafh the founding fhore, The hoarfe, rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar : When Ajax ftrives fome rock's...throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow ; Not fo, when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkirns along the... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...billows lain the founding than, The hoarfe rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar. When AJ3X drives fo'me rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move (low; Not fo when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flic* o'er ih' unbending corn, and iklms along the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...fmoother numbers flows; But when loud billows l.ifh the founding more, The hoarfe rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar. When Ajax ftrives fome rock's...throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow; Not fo when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkims along the main.... | |
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The hoarfe, rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar : When Ajax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow ; Not fo, when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkirns along the... 
