Letters Concerning Poetical Translations: And Virgil's and Milton's Arts and Verse, &cJ. Roberts, 1739 - 83 páginas |
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Æneid Affonantia Affultus Alliteratio Alliteration Allufio Verborum amongſt Atrides auxiliary Verb becauſe Beginning cauſe celebrated Lines Collocation concife Conclufion Cowley dedit eafily Eneid English Language English Verfe Ennius Eridanus Erythraus Example faid fame fecond Line femper feveral fhall fhew fhort fing firft Lines firſt foft fome fonitu Foot fpeaking ftrong fublime fuch Greek Harmony Heav'n himſelf Homer Hypanis Iambick Iliad Inftance Inverfion Italian itſelf juft laft Language laſt Latin Latin Language Latium Letter Majefty Meaſure mighty Milton Milton's Verfification moft Monofyllables moſt Mufick muſt obferve occafion opaci Ovid Paffage Paradife Loft Paufe Pauſe perceiv'd Perfon Pit's plac'd plural Numbers Poems Poetry Pope Pow'r prefent quæ quod raiſe reaſon refpect rhym'd Verfe Rhyme Senfe ſhould Simois ſpeak Stile Syllables taking notice terram thefe theſe theſe Lines thing thoſe Tranflation Trapp underſtood uſe varying Verfe vero Verſe Virgil Voffius whence Words
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