_Semblance_, and in thy Beauty's heav'nly Ray
United I beheld--

I presume there is no other Language in which Perfection equal to this
is to be found: And I could give many more Instances of the same kind
out of the _Paradise Lost_.


VII. The seventh Particular in _Virgil_ was his _Varying the Common
Pronunciation_, in which _Milton_ has imitated him in several Places;
the following is one Instance.

"--Thus to his Son au--[=di]--bly spake.

For so it must be read, and not after the common manner.

Again,

"Hoarse Murmur eccho'd to his Words Applause
Thro' the in--[=fi]--nite Host--

And the like in many other Places.


VIII. _His Verses contrary to the Common Measure._ The following is an
Example of this kind.

"Drove headlong down to the Bottomless Pit.--

Those who may be apt to find fault with such Arts as these (for Arts