COMMENDATORY VERSES ON MILTON. In Paradifum Amiffam fummi Poeta, Johannis Miltoni*. QUI legis Amiffam Paradifum, grandia magni 5 Carmina MILTONI, quid nifi cuncta legis? Res cunctas, et cunctarum primordia rerum, Et fata, et fines, continet ifte liber. Intima panduntur magni penetralia mundi, Scribitur et toto quicquid in orbe latet: Terraéque, tractúfque maris, cœlúmque profundum, Sulphureúmque Erebi, flammivomúmque specus: Quaéque colunt terras, pontúmque, et Tartara cæca, Quaéque colunt fummi lucida regna poli: Et quodcunque ullis conclufum eft finibus ufquam, Et fine fine Chaos, et fine fine Deus; Et fine fine magis, fi quid magis eft fine fine, 10 * This poem by Dr. Barrow, and the next by Milton's friend Andrew Marvell, have been ufually published in the editions of Paradife Loft, fince the edition of 1674, to which they are both prefixed. TODD. Ver. 1. Amiffam Paradifum,] Dr. Barrow has here rendered Paradisum feminine. The tranflators of the first book of Paradife Loft, both in 1685 and 1702, thus also entitle the poem “Paradifus Amissa." See alfo the fame title to other Latin translations in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xvi. pp. 549, 661. The Greek and Latin writers, however, make Paradife mafculine. TODD. |