Letters Concerning Poetical Translations - And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson
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page 64 of 91 (70%)
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"When from the _Boughs_ a savoury Odour _blown_. Again, "Immediately the Mountains huge appear Emergent, and their _broad bare Backs_ upheave Into the Clouds.-- Again, "--Scarce from his Mould _Behemoth, biggest born_ of Earth, upheav'd His Vastness.-- Spirited sly Snake.--Boughs blown.--Broad bare Backs.--_Behemoth_ biggest born. All these Passages are in the same Stile of Sound as _Virgil_'s-- _Metuens_, _Molem_, _Montis_. "_Hoc metuens, molemque & montis insuper altos Imposuit._-- Observe how the _molemque_ & _montis_ labour in the Verse exactly in the same manner as Broad, bare Backs, and _Behemoth_ biggest born. But here let me give you a few more Instances of the _Allusio |
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