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Letters Concerning Poetical Translations - And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson
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Of the same Nature are many Lines in _Milton_, of which this is one:

"Him first | Him last | Him midst | and without End.


II. I come now to the second Particular: _The Inversion of the
Phrase_. Every Page affords Instances of this Nature.

"--Him the Almighty Pow'r
Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal Sky.

Again,

"--Up stood the Corny Reed
Embattell'd in her Field.--

Again,

"--Him the most High
Rapt in a balmy Cloud with winged Steeds
Did, as thou saw'st, Receive.

And in one of _Milton_'s juvenile Poems we have

"Trip the pert Fairies.--

And,

"Revels the spruce jocund Spring.
_Comus._
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