Would not any body think that Vanerius intended to vie with Virgil in this Place?
October 2. 1736.
I am, Sir, &c.
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P.S.
The Examples I have given in this Letter of plain direct Rhyme are only in long or heroic Verse, but I might have instanc'd in Lyric Lines. Horace abounds in Rhyme. In the first Ode we find
Metaque fervidis
Evitata rotis
Palmaque nobilis