text: " Milton running on a flat of thought for a hundred lines together on a track of Scripture! In his poem by unnecessary coinage of new and unnecessary revival of old words running into _affectation_! Milton not to be _justified_ for his blank verse no not even by the example of the illustrious and immortal Hannibal Caro! Then he took to it in despair for rhyme was not his talent! His rhyme forced and constrained in the Hymn on the Nativity--in Lycidas--in L'Allegro--in Il Penseroso! In the same Essay on Satire--Dryden talks not very intelligibly about "the _beautiful turns of words and thoughts_ which are as requisite in this as in heroic poetry itself;" but with which he confesses himself to have been unacquainted till about twenty years before when "that noble wit of Scotland " Sir George Mackenzie asked him why he did not imitate "_the turns_ of Mr Waller and Sir John Denham of which he repeated many to me