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Letters Concerning Poetical Translations - And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson
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"--_Sub ipsum
Arcturum_, tenui s[=a]t erit _suspendere sulco_.--

How slow does the heavy Waggon proceed in this Line!

"_Tardaque Eleusinæ Matris Volventïa Plaustra._--

How does the Boat bound over the _Po_ in these two Hemisticks!

"--_Levis innatat alnus
Missa Pado._--

See Feathers dancing on the Water in this!

"--_In aqua colludere plumas._--

No Stem of the Crab-tree is more rough than this Verse.

"_Inseritur vero ex foetu nucis arbutus horrida:_

Water is not more liquid than this.

"_Speluncisque lacus Clausos, lucosque sonantis._--

_S. & L. liquescit Carmen instar aquarum_, says _Erythræus_ in his
Note on this Line.

How gently flow the Streams in this Verse!
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