Letters Concerning Poetical Translations - And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson
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VI. I come now to the _Collocatio Verborum_, of which there is no occasion to give any more than one Instance: "_Vox quoque per lucos vulgo exaudita silentes_ Ingens.-- The Reader cannot but perceive that the Manner of placing _Ingens_ has a wonderful Effect; it makes him hear the melancholy Voice _groan through the Grove_. VII. The _changing the common Pronunciation of Words_, as thus: _"Fluvi[)o]rum Rex Eridanus._-- And _"Strid[)e]re apes utero & ruptis efferv[)e]re costis._ VIII. _Lines contrary to the common Measure_, or rather without any Measure at all, _viz._ "_Quod fieri ferro, liquidove potest electro, Saxa per & scopulos & depressas convalles._ |
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