And the like in many other Places.
VIII. His Verses contrary to the Common Measure. The following is an Example of this kind.
"Drove headlong down to the Bottomless Pit.—
Those who may be apt to find fault with such Arts as these (for Arts they are in Virgil and Milton) little think what it is to write 10 or 12 thousand Lines, and to vary the Sound of them in such manner as to entertain the Ear from the Beginning to the End of the Work.
IX. I come now to the Alliteratio.
And 1. To speak of the single Alliteratio. This is so common in Milton, that you need but begin the Poem, or open any Page of it, and you will meet with it.
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"Of Man's first Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that forbidden Tree, whose mortal Taste