ained, and the grammatical
Construction inverted, to the Beginning of the next Line. This has a
wonderful Effect; especially when the Word is a Monosyllable.

"Here finish'd he, and all that he had made
_View'd_--and behold all was entirely good.

Again,

"Over their Heads triumphant Death his Dart
_Shook_--But refus'd to strike.

This artful Collocation commands the Attention, and makes the Reader
feel and see what is offer'd to him.

That this Effect is owing to the Collocation will appear by
considering any one of the Instances now produc'd. For Example:

"Over their Heads triumphant Death his Dart
_Shook_.--

This Passage makes the Reader see Death with his Dart in his Hand,
making it over the Heads of the unhappy Creatures describ'd in the
_Lazar-house_, as plainly as if the whole was painted upon Canvas. But
let this Line be alter'd thus:

"Over their Heads Death shook his dreadful Dart.

How much of the Fire and Spirit of this Passage is lost, will be
easily perceiv'd.

I was long of Opinion that _Milton_ had invented this Art himself, for
I knew he had it not from _Virgil_: The _Latin_ Language is hardly
capable of it. But by Accident I found _Milton_ learn'd it from
_Homer_, though it is plain what is _Art_ in the former was _Chance_
in the latter; which cannot be disputed when it is considered that in
so many thousand Lines that we have of _Homer_'s, there is I believe
but one single Instance of this Monosyllable Collocation; but in
_Milton_ there are many, both Substantives, Adjectives and Verbs. The
single Instance in _Homer_ is in _Odysse_ 9. in the Story of
_Polyphemus_.

[Greek: Sun de duo marpsas, hos te phulakas poti gaie / Kopt']
_Hom._ Odyss. _&c._

"Two of my hapless Friends with all his Pow'r,
Like Dogs, the Monster on the rocky Floor
DASH'D.--

Can any body be insensible of the Power of this Word, _Dash'd_, as it
is here plac'd.

I remember an Instance of this Monosyllable Collocation at the
Beginning of a Line in rhym'd Verse, which is very well worth
inserting here. It is at the Conclusion of Mr. _Pit_'s 4th _AEneid_,
when _Juno_ sends _Iris_ from Heaven in haste to relieve _Dido_ from
the Agonies of Death.

_"Tum Juno Omnipotens, longum miserata dolorem,
Difficilesque obitus, Irim_ Demisit Olympo
_Quae luctantem animam, nexosque resolveret artus_.

"Then mighty _Juno_ with a melting Eye,