... mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends), Precipitate the... Elements of Criticism - Page 405by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762Full view - About this book
| Homerus - 1721 - 292 lehte
...ihe-,v the reader, that there was at leaft an endeavour to imitate .' Still gathering force, it ihioaks; and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain: There flops—So Httlor. Their whole force he prov'd, 1OoRefiftlefs when he rag'd, and when he flopr, unmov'd.... | |
| Homerus - 1756 - 262 lehte
...Jjrvotvent ftcum. Disjiffa par agmina Turiaii Sic. Krtii nit.ad mum. Still gath'i ing force, itfmoaks; and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain : There flops — So Hcftor. Their whole force he prov'd, Refiftlefs when he rag'd, and when heftopt, unmov'd. zco On him... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762 - 464 lehte
...rolling ruin bounds : At every fhock the crackling wood refounds ; Still gath'ring force, it fmoaks ; and urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain : There • *2 COMPARISONS* Ch.XD& There flops — So Heftor. Their whole force he prov'd, Refifllefs when... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762 - 480 lehte
...Crit. Again, fpeaking of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain, Still gath'ring force, it fmokes, and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain. Iliad, xiii. 197. Sixthly, a period confifling moftly of long fyllables, that is, of fyllables pronounced... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1765 - 578 lehte
...373. Again, fpeaking of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain : Still gath'ring force, it fmokes, and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain. Iliad, xiii. 197. Sixthly, A period confiding moftly of long fyllables, that is, of fyllables pronounced... | |
| Homer - 1773 - 248 lehte
...rolling ruin bounds ; At ev'ry (hock the crackling wood rcfounds ; Still gath'ring force, it fmokcs ; and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain : There flops — So Hcftor. Their whole force he prov'd, Refiftlefs when he rag'd, and when hcflopt, unmov'd. On him the... | |
| William Cockin - 1775 - 182 lehte
...forth' d her foul to pleafure. Dryden's Ode on St. Cecilia's day, Still gathering force it fmoaks, and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down impetuous to the plain. Pope's Iliad. B. 13. For who to dumb forgetful nefs a prey, This pleafing anxious being ere refign'd,... | |
| Homerus, William Holwell - 1776 - 392 lehte
...rolling ruin bounds ; At ev'ry fhock the crackling wood refounds ; Still gath'ring force, it fmokes ; and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain ; There ftops — So Hector. Their whole force he prov'd, Refiftlefs when he rag'd, and when he ftopt unmov'd.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 384 lehte
...ruin bounds ; 195 At every (hock the crackling wood refounds ; . Still gathering force, it fmokes ; and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down,...plain.: There flops — So Heftor. Their whole force he provM, Refiftlefs when he rag'd, and when he ftopt, unmov'd. On him the war is bent, the darts are... | |
| 1807 - 560 lehte
...the rolling ruin bounds. At every shuck the echoing vale resounds; Kid! gathering torce, it smokes, and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down impetuous to the plain." Hind, b. iiu. " From hence we proceeded for High Knoll, over a tract that seemed the very emblem ot... | |
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