...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...

...absolutely necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms. " But," says he, " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system...his thoughts ?" This is easily said ; but what if Milton could not seduce the reader to drop it from his thoughts ? What if the contrary opinion had...

...understandings as might break the charm which it was his object to throw over their imaginations. This is 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 the real explanation of the indistinctness and inconsistency...Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirit 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 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 the ian name, bribes." Mr Montagu attempts, somewhat unfairly,...Bacon received as similar to the perquisites which 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 the real explanation of the indistinctness and inconsistency...Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirit should be clothed with material forms. " But," says he, " the poet should have secured...

...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...

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

...his object to throw over their imaginations. This is the real explanation of the indis35 tinctness and inconsistency with which he has often been reproached....Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirit should be clothed with material forms. "But," says he, "the poet should have secured...