Letters Concerning Poetical Translations - And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson
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page 37 of 91 (40%)
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"_Et premere, & laxas Sciret dare, jussus habenas._ "_Atque rotis summas Levibus pellabitur undas._ "_O nimium coelo Et pelago confise sereno._ Many more of these Lines might be produced, but these are sufficient. Of the plain direct _Double_ Rhyme (which is the Sort of Rhyme the _Spectator_ speaks of No. 60, and which the Monks were in Love with) the following are Instances. "_Hic labor extremus, lon_garum _hæc meta vi_arum. Again, "_I nunc & verbis Virtutem illude superbis._ Again, "_Cornua veletarum Obvertimus Antennarum._ 2. _Of the intermediate plain Rhyme_, the following are Examples. |
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