“Rapt into future times the bard begun.”
Pope, Messiah.
And without the necessity of rhyme:
“A second deluge learning thus o’er-run,
And the Monks finish’d what the Goths begun.”
Essay on Criticism.
“Repeats you verses wrote on glasses.”
Prior.
“Mr. Misson has wrote.”—Addison, Preface to his Travels. “He could only command his voice, broke with sighs and sobbings, so far as to bid her proceed.” Addison, Spect. Nᵒ 164.
“No civil broils have since his death arose.”