...therefore in20 vested 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 2 sV perplexed his poetry...

...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...

...absolutely necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms. " But," says he, " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system...immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader 5 to drop it from his thoughts." This is easily said; but what if Milton could not seduce his readers...

...absolutely necessary that the spirit should be clothed with material forms. "But," says he, "the poet should have secured the consistency of his system...seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts." 1 This is easily said ; •but what if Milton could not seduce his readers to drop immateriality from...

...absolutely necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms. " But," says he, " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and 25 seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts." This is easily said; but what if Milton could...

...throw over their imaginations. This is the real explanation of the indistinctness and inconsistency 20 with which he has often been reproached. Dr. Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms. " But," says he, " the poet should have secured...

...their to imaginations. This is the real explanation nf the indistinctness and irH-nnsistpnty w jrh which he has often been reproached. Dr. Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms. " But," says 15 he, " the poet should have...

...therefore invested them with form and matter. 10 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...

...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 spirits should be clothed with material forms. ' But,' says he, ' the poet should have secured...

...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...