...relax; remit. You unbend your noble strength, to think So biain-sickly of things. Shakspeare. Macbeth. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skuns along the main. Pope. UNBEN'EFICED, adj. Not preferred to a benefice. Ye noble few, who here...

...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 reek's vast weight- to throvr, The line, too, labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift...

...airy nothing A local habitation and a name " J " When AJAX strives some rock's huge weight to throw, The line too, labours, and the words move slow; Not...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." POPE. Mr WATSON observes, that, in SHERIDAN, Individuality and Eventuality are large, and Comparison...

...uttering words combined with a due proportion of liquids., and a happy arrangement of vowels and accents. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. The euphony of the Italian, in which it is distinguished from all other languages, consists chiefly...

...defining grace and fleetness of movement in verse: When Ajar 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. (lines 370—73) 4. “the utmost disorder”: Smollett's...

...of a verse "must seem an Eccho to the Sense." 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. As he matures, however, he applies this principle in...

...energies toward a particular bit of narrative: 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 oe'r th'unbending Corn, and skims along the Main. Swift Camilla's fast six feet are uncontaminated by any...

...echo to the sense," says: 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 th' unbending com, or skims along the main. Essay on Criticism. 268-281. On Norse mythology, see RB...

.... ). 11? Cf. Pope. A'vsfly 0n <nti<tsrn (1711): When A|ax 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 uY unix-nding corn, and skims along the main. Another device of emphasis may be seen in lines which...

...hoarse, rough Verse shou'd like the Torrent roar. When Ajax strives, some Rocks' vast Weight to throw, The line too labours, and the Words move slow; Not...o'er the unbending Corn, and skims along the Main. (155) Samuel Johnson was critical of Pope's tour de force, noting that in the lines about Ajax "there...