Book-bot.com - read famous books online for free

Letters Concerning Poetical Translations - And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson
page 33 of 91 (36%)


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._



DigitalOcean Referral Badge