Note 63 — WINDSOR FOREST.
Reading edition
"Volume," except in its application to books, now carries with it an idea of magnitude. In Pope's day it was still used in its strictly etymological sense. When Milton, in his personification of Sin (Par. Lost, ii. 651), says that she
ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast,
"voluminous" is the synonym for "many a scaly fold," and not for the conjoint epithet "vast."