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...366. Soft is the strain, fyc.] " Turn si laeta canunt," &c. Vida, Poet. 1. iii. ver. 403But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough...corn, and skims along the main, Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprize, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! 375 While at each change, the son of...

...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...slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flieso'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention,...

...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrentroar. sten'd feet begin to bind, Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, [main. And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While,...

...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...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...

...strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; c But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate...

...numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.— Pop* 20. Good name; in man and woman Is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse, steals...

...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,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, tried another...

...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,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed, for about thirty years, the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, tried another...

...strain, when Zephyr gentle blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Nor so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main....