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...from act, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the nuim . Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate...

...That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. And afterward, "f is not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines...

...the manner in which they are read. " ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound should seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main." " Of Inversion. SOME languages in regard to the arrangement...

...asperity, of slowness and velocity, are as complete, as, in the nature of things, they can be:— " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main." In this specimen, however, (which is probably the best...

...strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...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...

...strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...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...

...from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the...

...the strain when Zephyr gently blow?, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough...slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise,...

...proclaims a principle, 'The Sound must seem an Eccho to the Sense' (line 365), then illustrates it: When Ajax strives, some Rock's vast Weight to throw,...so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies o'er th'unbending Corn, and skims along the Main. (II. 370-3) The Essay on Criticism is not, like most of...