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...shock to their understandings as might break the charm which it was his object to throw over their imaginations. This is the real explanation of the...Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirit should be clothed with material forms. "But," says he, "the poet should have secured...

...shock to their understandings as might break the charm which it was his object to throw over their imaginations. This is the real explanation of the...has often been reproached. Dr. Johnson acknowledges 5 that it was absolutely necessary for him to clothe his spirits with material forms. "But," says he,...

...therefore invested them with form and matter. This, being necessary, was therefore defensible ; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts. But he has unhappily perplexed his poetry with his...

...be clothed with material forms. " But," says he, " the poet should have secured the con-10 sistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight,...from his thoughts." This is easily said; but what if Milton could not seduce his readers to drop immateriality from their thoughts ? What if the contrary...

...understandings as might break the charm which it was his object to throw over their imaginations. This is 5 the real explanation of the indistinctness and inconsistency...Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms. " But," says he, " the poet should have secured...

...understandings as might break the charm which it was his object to throw over their imaginations. This is 5 the real explanation of the indistinctness and inconsistency...Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms. " But," says he, " the poet should have secured...