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...monfter, and confounds the fight. And here Charybdis fills the deep with ftorms. When the tide rufhes from her rumbling caves The rough rock roars ; tumultuous boil the waves • They tofs, they foam, a wild confufion raife, Eternal mifts obfcure th' aerial plain, ^ Like waters...

...there a fcene of horror forms, z80 And here Charybdis fills the deep with ftorms. When the tide rufl:es from her rumbling caves The rough rock roars ; tumultuous boil the waves ; They tofs, they foam, a wild confufion raife, Like waters bubbling o'er the fiery blaze; 185 Eternal...

...there a fcene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with ftorms : When the tide rufhes from her rumbling caves, The rough rock roars: tumultuous boil the waves. Pope. No perfon can be at a lofs about the caufe of this beautv : it is obvioufly that of imitation....

...there a fcene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with ftorms. When the tide rufhes from her rumbling caves, The rough rock roars; tumultuous boil the waves. B;i/teri>ui and glntlr founds. Two craggy rocks projecting to the main, The roaring winds tempeftuous...

...couplet: Soft is the strain when Zephyr 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 f. An attempt of the same kind of conformity of the sound to the sense, is perhaps but too discernible...

...strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in soioothcr numbers flows. But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajai strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words more slow ;...

..." Soft is the strain when Zephyr 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 move slow...

...strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbersßaws ; Eut when loud billows 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 move »low...

...sense. 365 Soft is the strain when Zephyr 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 move slow:...