IMITATION OF DIFFICULTY AND EASE.
When Ajax strives some rock’s vast weight to throw,
The line, too, labors, and the words move slow, &c.—Pope: Ess. on Criticism.
He through the thickest of the throng gan threke.—Chaucer: Knight’s Tale.
And strains from hard-bound brains six lines a year.—Pope: Sat. Frag.
Part huge of bulk,
Wallowing, unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
Tempest the ocean.—Milton: Paradise Lost, vii.
He came, and with him Eve, more loath, though first
To offend, discountenanced both, and discomposed.
Milton: Paradise Lost, x.
So he with difficulty and labor hard
Moved on, with difficulty and labor he.—Milton: Paradise Lost, ii.