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For what is more unbefitting the majesty of Verse, than 'to call a servant, or 'bid a door be shut' in Rhyme? And yet, this miserable necessity you are forced upon! "Neither is it able to evince that. "Omnia pontus erat, deerant quoque litora ponto. Now all was sea; nor had that sea a shore. "Thus OVID's Fancy was not limited by Verse; and VIRGIL needed not Verse to have bounded his.
I was pretty easily conveyed on board this hoy; but to get from hence to the shore was not so easy a task; for, however strange it may appear, the water itself did not extend so far; an instance which seems to explain those lines of Ovid, Omnia pontus erant, deerant quoque littora ponto, in a less tautological sense than hath generally been imputed to them.
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