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but which is to be supposed his maturer judgement disapproved, since in his latter works he has totally forborn them.
His rhymes are such as seem found with out difficulty, by following the sense; and are for the most part as exact at least as those of other poets, though now and then the reader is shifted off with what he can get.
"O how transform'd!
"How much unlike that Hector, who return'd
"Clad in Achilles' spoils"
"How much unlike that Hector, who return'd
"Clad in Achilles' spoils"
And again:
"From thence a thousand lesser poets sprung
"Like pretty princes from the fall of Rome."
"Like pretty princes from the fall of Rome."
Sometimes the weight of rhyme is laid upon a word too feeble to sustain it:
"Troy confounded falls
"From all her glories: if it might have stood
"By any power, by this right hand it shou'd.
"—And though my outward state misfortune hath.
"Deprest thus low, it cannot reach my faith."
"—Thus, by his fraud and our own faith o'ercome,
"A feigned tear destroys us, against whom
"Tydides nor Achilles could prevail,
"Nor ten years conflict, nor a thousand sail."
"From all her glories: if it might have stood
"By any power, by this right hand it shou'd.
"—And though my outward state misfortune hath.
"Deprest thus low, it cannot reach my faith."
"—Thus, by his fraud and our own faith o'ercome,
"A feigned tear destroys us, against whom
"Tydides nor Achilles could prevail,
"Nor ten years conflict, nor a thousand sail."
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