Jamque mare et tellus nullum discrimen habebant,
Nil nisi pontus erat, deerant quoque littora ponto.
(Ovid)
—Sea cover'd Sea,
Sea without Shore—
(Milton.)
In
Milton
the former Part of the Description does not forestall the latter. How much more great and solemn on this Occasion is that which follows in our
English
Poet,
—And in their Palaces
Where Luxury late reign'd, Sea-Monsters whelp'd
And stabled—
than that in
Ovid