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...But when 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,...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...

...But when 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,...Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending coin, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated by...

...torrent roar. much maturity of judgement, extent of reading, and. "When Ajax strives some rock's \rast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words...slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flees o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' • various lays surprise,...

...raises, by the difficulty of pronouncing contrary to custom, a feeling similar to that of hard labour : When Ajax strives some rock's -vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Essay on Crit. 370. Ninthly, Harsh or rough words pronounced with difficulty, excite a feeling similar...

...raises, by the difficulty of pronouncing contrary to custom, a feeling similar to that of hard labour: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Essay on Crit. 370. which proceeds from the labour of thought to a dull writer: Just writes to make...

...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main— when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise...

...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,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the e. 4 42.— On Man. LET us (since life can little more su:...

...surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar, ' Slow Motion. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,, The line too labours, and the words move slow. . •Swift and Easy. I Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and...

...marble floor Of some old temple wide. In the succeeding lines, we perceive that slow motion is imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. In the next example, the verse resembles swift and easy motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the...