Letters Concerning Poetical Translations - And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson
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Of the _Treble_ and more frequent initial _Alliteratio_, this is an Instance: "_Et sola in siccâ secum spatiatur arena._ The _Mix'd Alliteratio_, and the _Assultus_ are to be found in these two Lines: "Illas _ducit_ amor trans Gargara, transque sonantem Ascanium: superant _montes_, & flumina tranant. In these two Lines the Vowel _a_ is repeated fourteen times, and what an Effect this has upon the Ear, the Reader cannot but perceive. 2. Of the _Allusio Verborum_, the following are Examples: "_Nec nocturna quidem carpentes pensa puellæ._ Again, "_Hoc metuens; molemque & montes insuper altos._ Again, "_Stat sonipes, ac frena ferox spumantia mandit._ Again, |
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