...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...

...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not 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: Than just to look about us, and to Expatiate...

...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 skims along themain. • . Felling Trees. • Loud sounds the axe redoubling strokes on strokes : On alt sides...

...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...

...some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow. Swift and Easy Motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Felling Trees in a Wood. Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes ; On all sides round the...

...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the words move slow. Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." FROM BLAIR'S LECTURES. CHAP. III. On Figures. FIGURES of speech always imply some departure from simplicity...

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...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, [main. And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at...