| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet wlio tells us, that When 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 ; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 290 pages
...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, The line...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims jlong the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...surges lash the sounding shore, •f The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. " When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, " The line...when swift Camilla scours the plain, " Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main." The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines,... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrentroar: ^/Vhen Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw , The line..., when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o'er th' unbending corn , and skims along the main. Hear how Timothens' vary?d.lays surprise , And bid alternate... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the tioet who tells us, that 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 ; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...shield, The steeds witho1.. t their rulers tcvur the iieid, The knights unliors'd. T)r\din. 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. ftfe. To SCOUR, vn i. To perform the office of cleaning... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 360 pages
...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..., when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o'er th'unbending corn , and skims along the main.* POPE , on criticiim. PREMIÈRE TRADUCTION. Que le style... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...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.* VOL. i L These * Ver. 386. These lines are usually cited... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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...Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, [main. And hid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...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, The line...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and... | |
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