Note 1 — ESSAYS. (continued 2)
Reading edition
: A long line is a line we are long repeating. In the Shepherds Hunting take the following—
"If thy verse doth bravely tower, As she makes wing, she gets power; Yet the higher she doth soar, She's affronted still the more, 'Till she to the high'st hath past, Then she rests with fame at last."
What longer measure can go beyond the majesty of this! what Alexandrine is half so long in pronouncing or expresses labor slowly but strongly surmounting difficulty with the life with which it is done in the second of these lines? or what metre could go beyond these from Philarete—
"Her true beauty leaves behind Apprehensions in my mind Of more sweetness, than all art Or inventions can impart. Thoughts too deep to be expressed, And too strong to be suppressed."