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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