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

by William Benson

In the second, Mole, Movent, and Modesto.

In the third, Caudam, Cristasque.

The mixt Alliteration in the first Line where Garrulus is placed betwixt Anser and Anas, makes the Verse very sonorous; but the mixt Alliteration in the last Line where the Vowel i is repeated eight times in seven Words, is a very masterly Stroke;

"Erigit, & motis sibi plaudit lœtior alis.

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————Ille hinc concentus in omni

Carmine Divini vatis.————————

Which extempore Remark is itself an Instance of what I am taking notice of as imitated from Virgil.

3. You will perceive the Allusio Verborum to have a very good Effect in the second Line.