Letters Concerning Poetical Translations / And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c.

by William Benson

"Jamq; domûs ventum est umbrosæ ad limina: sistunt

Ambo, ambo vertunt, & aperto numen adorant

Sub Cœlo.——————

Alter these Lines, thus,

"Et nunc Arborei ventum est ad limina tecti;

Sistunt Ambo, Ambo vertunt, & numen Adorant

Sub Cœlo.——————

There is here just the same Difference in the Latin as in the English.

I cannot omit two other Instances of Milton's wonderful Art in the Collocation of Words, by which the Thoughts are exceedingly heighten'd.

"Under his forming Hands a Creature grew