observe that it is to the artful
and uncommon varying the Pause, that the Harmony is owing in those two
celebrated Lines of Sir _John Denham_.

"Tho' deep | yet clear; | tho' gentle | yet not dull.
Strong | without Rage, | without o'erflowing | full.

This is one of those Mysteries in Versification which the late Duke of
_Bucks_ would not suffer Mr. _Dryden_ to communicate to the Publick.
To the same Art is owing the Delicacy of two of the finest Lines in
all the _Latin_ Tongue.

"_Te | dulcis conjux | te | solo in littore | secum,
Te | veniente die | te | decedente | canebat._

Of the same Nature are many Lines in _Milton_, of which this is one:

"Him first | Him last | Him midst | and without End.

II. I come now to the second Particular: _The Inversion of the
Phrase_. Every Page affords Instances of this Nature.

"--Him the Almighty Pow'r
Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal Sky.

Again,

"--Up stood the Corny Reed
Embattell'd in her Field.--

Again,

"--Him the most High
Rapt in a balmy Cloud with winged Steeds
Did, as thou saw'st, Receive.

And in one of _Milton_'s juvenile Poems we have

"Trip the pert Fairies.--

And,

"Revels the spruce jocund Spring.
_Comus._

III. The third thing to be consider'd, is, _The adapting the Sound to
the Sense_.

Who does not hear the Warbling of a _Brook_, the Rustling of _Wings_,
the rough Sound of _Trumpets_ and _Clarions_, and the soft one of
_Flutes_ and _Recorders_ in the following Lines?

"Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow
Melodious Murmur warbling, tune his Praise.

Again,

"--But Chief the spacious Hall
Thick swarm'd, both on the Ground and in the Air,
_Brush'd with the Hiss of rustling Wings_.

Again,

"Then strait commands, that at the warlike Sound
Of _Trumpets_ loud and _Clarions_, be uprear'd
His mighty Standard.--

Again,

"--Nor with less Dread, the loud
Ethereal Trumpet from on High _'gan blow_.

Again,

"--Thus they
Breathing united Force with fixed Thought
Mov'd on _in Silence to soft Pipes_.

Who does not see Porpoises and Dolphins tumbling about in the Ocean
when he reads this Line?

"--On smooth the Seal,
And bended Dolphins play: part huge of Bulk,
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their Gate,
Tempest the Ocean.--

How variously the Rivers run in these Verses?

"--So the w