Letters Concerning Poetical Translations - And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson
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_Nec venenatis Gravida sagittis Pone me Pigris Ubi nulla campis Arbor æstiva Recreatur Aura Aut in umbrosis Heliconis Oris Aut super Pindo Gelidove in Hæmo._ The two last are doubly rhym'd. LETTER V. _SIR,_ I am now to consider _Milton_'s Versification under the same Heads as I have considered _Virgil_'s, so far as there is Opportunity of doing it. I. To begin with _The Varying of the Pause_, which is the Soul of all Versification in all Languages. Verse is Musick, and Musick is more or |
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