, in the Poem which was designed to celebrate the Original of the
Roman
Empire, has described the Birth of its great Rival, the
Carthaginian
Commonwealth:
Milton
, with the like Art, in his Poem on the
Fall of Man
, has related the Fall of those Angels who are his professed Enemies. Besides the many other Beauties in such an Episode, its running parallel with the great Action of the Poem hinders it from breaking the Unity so much as another Episode would have done, that had not so great an Affinity with the principal Subject. In