, as unbecoming
the
great Catastrophe of Nature. If our Poet has imitated that Verse in which
Ovid
tells us that there was nothing but Sea, and that this Sea had no Shore to it, he has not set the Thought in such a Light as to incur the Censure which Criticks have passed upon it. The latter part of that Verse in
Ovid
is idle and superfluous, but just and beautiful in
Milton
.