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NECO.724.013
3-10 Aug 1724:11,12,21 (158)
Remarks on the Salem Elegy continu'd.
This poem, I confess, on this account [namely in beginning
several words in a line the same letter] is exceeded by that
famous poem, call'd Jack the Piper. But lest this may be
slighted and not esteem'd a [?flatterer], I will give an
instance or two out of some other author; tho' I confess
they fall short of our author.
The first shall be out of M. Denham's (that Prince of
poets) poems. There he has these lines.
His Blessings are not to his banks confin'd,
But free and common as the sea or wind.
. . . [commentary: 2 lines]
Another instance shall be fetch'd from Cibbers Ximera, or
the Heroic Daughter, a tragedy.
As thus,--- I've gain'd
The End, the heaven of my hopes on earth,
And [ ] the proudest sails of my ambition.
You see how excellently heaven and hopes agree.
The last instance of this kind that I shall give is from
Pope's Homer. Describing Venus's girdle, he says,
In this was every art and every charm,
To win the wisest, and the bravest war
. . . [6 lines commentary and analysis]
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