...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, , The line...o'er the 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...

...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rocks vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the...unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at each change, the...

...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...Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the e. 4 42.— On Man. LET us (since life can little more su: Than just to look about us, and to Expatiate...

...foaming high, and tumbling to the shore. Iliad, xiii. 1004. The last shall be of rapid motion prolonged i Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. , . . JSuay on Crit. 373. Again, speaking of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain : Still gath'ring...

...strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line too labours, and the words more slow. Swift and £asy. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main. Felting Trees. Loud sounds the axe redoubling strokes on strokes : On all sides round the forest hurls...

...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, •The line...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...

...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, The line...slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. jFrom these lines, laboured with great attention,...

...sounding shore, The hoarse ronghi verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some roi k's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and...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...

...Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. ****** Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." There is, then, a constant propensity in the English ear to rest upon consonant sounds, and particularly...

...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, The line...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...