 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...  Specimens of the British poets - Page 15by British poets - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 548 pages
...could, with any decent appearance of epic or dramatic truth, have been ascribed. Hear, how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall...son of Lybian Jove Now burns with glory, and then molts with love — Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now, sighs steal out, and tears begin... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er lh' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While, at each change, the son of Libyan Joye Now burns with glory, and then melts with low ; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 pages
...I've seen her skim the clouted cream, And press from spongy curds the milky stream. Gay. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line...scours the plain. Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and ikims along the main. Pope. Such as have active spirits, who are ever skimming over the surface of... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 pages
...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 :...o'er the 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pages
...with learned spleen devoured, Can taste no pleasure since his shietd was scoured Pope. When \ |.i\ strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line...and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scaurs the plain. Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Id. Essay on Criticism.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 pages
...relax; remit. You unbend your noble strength, to think So brain-sickly of things. Shakspeare. Macbeth . Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope. Ye noble few, who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressures, yet a little while, And all... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1829 - 428 pages
...solennel; celui-ci respire la. tendresse et l'amour; celui-là la., fureur et la rage. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise , And bid alternate passions fall and rise ; While at each change , the son of libian Jove Noiy Imms with glory , and then inelt» with love. Now lus Cerce eyes with sparkling fury... | |
 | George Combe - 1830 - 738 pages
...shapes, and gives to 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...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." POPE. Mr WATSON observes, that, in SHERIDAN, Individuality and Eventuality are large, and Comparison... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw The line too labours, and the words move slow : 37Í Timotheus' varied lavs surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While, at each change,... | |
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