So to the woods Love runnes, as well as rides to the palace:
Neither he bears reverence to a prince, nor pity to a beggar;
But, like a point in the midst of a circle, is still of a nearnesse.
His form had not yet lost
All her original brightness,
is a very remarkable passage in Milton's Paradise Lost, wherein a person is personified.
It is certain that Hebrew verse did not include rhyme: the terminations of the lines where they are most distinct, never showing any thing of the kind.
Francis le Brossano engraved these verses upon a marble tomb which he erected to Petrarch at Arqua.
Frigida Francisci tegit hic lapis ossa Petrarcæ.
Suscipe, virgo parens, animam: sate virgine, parce,
Fessaque jam terris, cœli requiescat in arce.