"/Transform'd: but he my inbred enemy "Forth iffued, brandishing his fatal dart "Made to destroy. I fled, and cried out, Death; "Hell trembled at the hideous name, and figh'd "From all her caves, and back refounded, Death. "I fled; but he purfu'd, (tho' more, it seems, "Inflam'd with luft than rage) and swifter far, "Me overtook, his mother, all difmay'd, “And in embraces forcible and foul, "Ingend'ring with me, of that rape begot "Thefe yelling monfters, that with ceaseless cry "Surround me, as thou faw'ft, hourly conceiv'd "And hourly born, with forrow infinite "To me; for when they lift, into the womb "That bred them they return, and howl, and gnaw "My bowels, their repast! then bursting forth "Afresh, with conscious terrors vex me round, "That reft or intermiffion none I find. "Before mine eyes in oppofition fits "Grim Death, my fon and foe, who sets them on, "And me his parent would full foon devour, "For want of other prey, but that he knows "His end with mine involv'd; and knows that I "Should prove a bitter morfel, and his bane, "Whenever that shall be; fo fate pronounc'd. "But thou, O father, I forewarn thee, fhun "His deadly arrow; neither vainly hope "To be invulnerable in those bright arms, "Tho' temper'd heavenly; for that mortal dint, "Save he who reigns above, none can refift.” You You must, in all long tpeeches, or poems, give as much variety in the utterance as you poffibly can, in order to prevent them hanging upon the ear. Take care, however, in the change, to keep up the general effect intended by the poet. She finifh'd; and the fubtle fiend his lore Soon learn'd, now milder, and thus anfwer'd fmooth: Now Satan leffens confiderably his former aufterity, fo that you must mark the alteration by your manner of reading the following. "Dear daughter, fince thou claim'ft me for thy fire, "From out this dark and dismal house of pain, 46 Myself expose, with lonely fteps to tread "Th'unfounded deep, and thro' the void immense "To fearch with wand'ring queft a place foretold "Should be, and by concurring figns, ere now "Created vaft and round; a place of bliss "In the purlieus of heaven, and therein plac'd "A race of upftart creatures; to supply 66 Perhaps our vacant room; tho' more remov'd, "Left heav'n, furcharg'd with potent multitude, "To know; and this once known fhall foon re- "And bring ye to the place where thou and Death "Shall dwell at eafe, and up and down unfeen 66 Wing filently the buxom air, embalmı'd Now lower your voice. He ceas'd; for both feem'd highly pleas'd, and Grinn'd horrible a ghaftly finile, to hear His famine fhould be fill'd; and blefs'd his maw 1 His mother bad, and thus befpake her fire: " With "With terrors and with clamours compass'd round Be very forcible and imprefive in the following defcription. Thus faying, from her fide the fatal key, With impetuous recoil and jarring found, Many words here must be particularly marked, to give full energy to the foregoing lines-"rolling her beftial train," "huge portcullis," "th' intricate wards," "maffy iron," "folid rock," "impetuous recoil," jarring "found," I 3 66 " found," "infernal doors," hinges grate," " harja thunder," and "loweft bottom shook of Erebus." She open'd, but to fhut Excell'd her pow'r: the gates wide open stood, Without dimenfion, where length, breadth, and And time and place are loft; where eldest Night Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confufion stand. MILTON'S ADDRESS TO LIGHT. BEGIN this in a full, clear, and regular tone: there ought to be great folemnity in your look. Hail, holy Light. offspring of Heav'n firft-born, May I exprefs thee unblam'd? fince God is light, Dwelt |