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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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