 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, •The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not 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 celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged what... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...When Ajax strives some roi k's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, , Flies...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope. 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse, steals... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 402
...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : , Not 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 of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another... | |
 | 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...the wrong words, particularly the article, — • " Notta — so — when — swift — Cd-mil-ld scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. To return to our old acquaintance Madame de Stahl. — This lady's autobiography is of undoubted authenticity,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! 375 While at each... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, . Flies...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, . . , And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! 375 While... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not 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 of Camilla's lightness of foot, tried another... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main." In this specimen, however, (which is probably the best in the English language,) the imitation is imperfect,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 278
...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, 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 puts me in mind of a description in Homer's... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the words move slow j Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, « Flies...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. — Pope 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse,... | |
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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 some rock's vast weight to throw, The line... 
