Letters Concerning Poetical Translations - And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson
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III. The third thing to be consider'd, is, _The adapting the Sound to the Sense_. Who does not hear the Warbling of a _Brook_, the Rustling of _Wings_, the rough Sound of _Trumpets_ and _Clarions_, and the soft one of _Flutes_ and _Recorders_ in the following Lines? "Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow Melodious Murmur warbling, tune his Praise. Again, "--But Chief the spacious Hall Thick swarm'd, both on the Ground and in the Air, _Brush'd with the Hiss of rustling Wings_. Again, "Then strait commands, that at the warlike Sound Of _Trumpets_ loud and _Clarions_, be uprear'd His mighty Standard.-- Again, "--Nor with less Dread, the loud Ethereal Trumpet from on High _'gan blow_. Again, |
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