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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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"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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