Letters Concerning Poetical Translations: And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c |
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... Ennius a- mong the Greek and Latin Poets , and afterwards from Ovid with relation to the latter , and which I am now to speak of , that the common Pause or Stop Stop in all Latin Heroick Verfe ( to fay nothing ( 18 )
... Ennius a- mong the Greek and Latin Poets , and afterwards from Ovid with relation to the latter , and which I am now to speak of , that the common Pause or Stop Stop in all Latin Heroick Verfe ( to fay nothing ( 18 )
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... Ennius : He first introduc'd the Hexameter Line , and therefore is properly called the Father of their Poetry ; and it is judiciously faid , that if they had never had Ennius , perhaps they had never had Vir- gil . If the French had ...
... Ennius : He first introduc'd the Hexameter Line , and therefore is properly called the Father of their Poetry ; and it is judiciously faid , that if they had never had Ennius , perhaps they had never had Vir- gil . If the French had ...
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