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.
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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————