Letters Concerning Poetical Translations - And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson
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"Sporting the _Lion_ ramp'd, and in his Paw
Dandled the _Kid_; Bears, Tigers, Ounces, Pards, Gambol'd before them.-- Again, "--Sweet Interchange Of Hill and Valley, Rivers, Woods and Plains, Now Land, now Sea, and Shores with Forest crown'd Rocks, Dens and Caves. Again, "The glittering Guard he pass'd, and now is come Into the blissful Field, thro' Groves of Myrrh, And flow'ry Odours, _Cassia_, _Nard_, and _Balm_. V. As to the fifth Remark upon _Virgil_, which relates to his using the Particles _Que_ and _Et_ in his Verse, there can be nothing of that nature in _Milton_. So that I proceed to VI. The sixth thing to be observed, which is, _The Collocatio Verborum_. _Milton_ often places the Adjective after the Substantive, which very much raises the Stile. "Strait he commands that at the warlike Sound |
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