Letters Concerning Poetical Translations / And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c.

by William Benson

And hurl'd huge Heaps of Mountains on their Head;

And gave a King commissioned to restrain

And curb the Tempest, or to loose the Rein.

Hurl'd, huge, Heaps, Head, all in the same Line, imitate Virgil's Metuens, Molem, Montis.

And again,

"————————Facti de nomine Byrsam;

Sed vos qui tandem, quibus aut venistis ab oris,

Quove tenetis iter?—————————

Dr. Trapp,

"———————And the Name of Byrsa gave