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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... "
An Essay on the Nature of the English Verse: With Directions for Reading Poetry - Page 49
by Joseph Robertson - 1799 - 134 pages
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Juvenile poems

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 396 pages
...fmoother numbers flows j But when loud furges lafh the founding flioar, The hoarfe,rough verfe (hould like the torrent roar. When Ajax ftrives fome rock's...throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow : Notfo, when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, 372 Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkims along the...
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Poems on Several Occasions

Christopher Smart - English poetry - 1752 - 264 pages
...fmoother numbers flows, 370 But when loud billows lafh the founding fhore, Thehoarfe rough verfefhould 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, 375 Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkims along the...
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Letters

Aaron Hill - Acting - 1753 - 394 pages
...high-fwoln furges fweep the founding fhore, Roll the rough verfe, hoarfe, like the torrent's rore : When Ajax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too lab'ring, each dragg'd word moves flow. Livelier, the light Camilla fkirns the plain, Shoots o'er th'...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1754 - 262 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: 371 Not fo, when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and ikims along the...
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Juvenile poems

Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...lath the founding (hoar, The hoarfe, rough verfe fhoulJ like the torrent roar. When Ajax ftrives fomc rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow : 37 i Not fo, when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbendingcorn, and fkimsalong the...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 314 pages
...loud furges lafh the founding fhoar, The hoarfe, rough verfe mould like the torrent roar 3 When Aj ax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight to throw/ The line too labours, and the words move flow 1371 Not fo, when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkims along the...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 316 pages
...founding fhoar, The hoarfe, rough verfe mould like the torrent roar : When Aj ax flrives fome rock's vail: weight to throw> The line too labours, and the words move flow: 371 Not fo, when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and fkims along the...
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The British Magazine, Or, Monthly Repository for Gentlemen & Ladies

English literature - 726 pages
...founding fhore, The hoarfe, rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar j When Ajax ftrives fome ftone'i* vaft weight to throw, The line .too labours, and the words move (low : Not fo when fsvift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and (kirns along...
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The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of ...

John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...fmoother numbers flows ; But when loud forges 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....
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 2

Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1762 - 482 pages
...raifes, by the difficulty of pronouncing contrary to cuftom, a feeling fimilar to that of hard labour : When Ajax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow. Effayon Crit. 370. Ninthly, harm or rough words pronounced with difficulty, excite a feeling refembling...
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