Beheld her dreadful Anguish from the Sky;
And bade fair _Iris_ from the starry Pole,
_Fly_, and enlarge her agonizing Soul.

How is the Verse animated by the placing that Monosyllable, _Fly_, at
the Beginning of the last Line.--The Reader sees all the Concern of
_Juno_, and all the Hurry she is in to get the unhappy Queen released
from the Pangs of Death.

_Milton_ likewise uses his Monosyllables very artfully in placing them
at the Conclusion of a Line, so as to divide the last Foot of the
Verse, which has a very extraordinary Effect.

"Silence, ye troubled Waves, and thou, _Deep_,
Peace.

Again he divides the last Foot by making a Monosyllable the Beginning
of a new Sentence, which is very pleasing.

"--Up flood the Corny Reed
Imbattled in his Plain, the humble Furz
And Bush with frisled Hair implicit. _Last_
Rose as in Dance the stately Trees.

_Milton_ also sometimes places two Monosyllables at the End of the
Line, stopping at the 4th Foot, to adapt the Measure of the Verse to
the Sense; and then begins the next Line in the same manner, which has
a wonderful Effect.

"Now at their shady Lodge arriv'd, _both stopt_,
_Both turn'd_, and under open Sky ador'd
The God who made, _&c._

This artful Manner of writing makes the Reader see them _Stop_ and
_Turn_ to worship God before they went into their Bower. If this
Manner was alter'd, much of the Effect of the Painting would be lost.

"And now arriving at their shady Lodge
_Both stopt, both turn'd_, and under open Sky
Ador'd the God, _&c._

This falls very short of the Original. So in _Latin_,

"_Jamq; domus ventum est umbrosae ad limina_: sistunt
Ambo, ambo vertunt, & _aperto numen adorant
Sub Coelo._--

Alter these Lines, thus,

"_Et nunc Arborei ventum est ad limina tecti_;
Sistunt Ambo, Ambo vertunt, & _numen Adorant
Sub Coelo._--

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
Manlike, but different Sex, so lovely fair,
That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now
_Mean_, or in her summ'd up.--

What a Force has that Word _mean_, as it is plac'd!

Again,

"I turn'd my Thoughts, and with capacious Mind
Considered all Things visible in Heav'n,
Or Earth, or Middle, all