 | Basil Richard Barrett - 1812 - 188 sivua
...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, &:c. Suppose, then, a writer to affect only bare perspicuity. The properties of this species -of style... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 sivua
...weight to throw, The line, too, labors, ami the wards move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th" unbending corn, and skims along the main.— — Pops. * 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate jewi 1 of their sowls. Who steals my purse,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 262 sivua
...rough verfe Ihould like the torrent roar. Slow Motion imitated. When Ajax ftrives ibme rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow. Swift and eafy Motion. Not fo when fwift Camilla icours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 sivua
...weight to throw, 370 The line too labors, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla 20 scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' 21 varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise, While, at each... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 sivua
...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. These lines deserve the closest attention from every hopeful or practising poet who uses the medium... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 sivua
...owing, perhaps, to the necessity of using a ten syllable line — " Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main." One of the best examples of the " sound being an echo to the sense " is contained in the first two... | |
 | Anselm Bayly - 402 sivua
...execution. Immediate arc the works of God, more fwift Than time or motion When Ajax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow. The Rambler, vol. II. No. 92, 34, who fmiles, not without reafon, at the imaginary flight of Camilla... | |
 | John Douglas Canfield, J. Paul Hunter - 1989 - 214 sivua
...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 subtler and subtler ways — in fact, to the vanishing... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1994 - 376 sivua
...Weight to throw, The Line too labours, and the Words move slour, Not so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies o'er th' unbending Corn, and skims along the Main. (365-73) Gary may have had these lines specifically in mind when he likened himself to an unbroken... | |
 | András Horn - 1998 - 212 sivua
...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. Um nur zwei Mittel der prosodisch bewerkstelligten Verlangsamung hervorzuheben: Im 2. Vers sind sogar... | |
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... 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 line too labours, and the words... 
