In dealing with these his position is not that of one justifying the ways of God to manthough he somewhat disingenuously appeals to Milton in his defencenor that of the definite antagonism of Queen Mab.

But the reflections, often striking, are seldom absolutely fresh: that beginning, The mind, which is immortal, makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time, is transplanted from Milton with as little change as Milton made in transplanting it from Marlowe.

He left the Milton to his brother.

In the same strain, Scott says of the author of the "grand and tremendous drama:" "He has certainly matched Milton on his own ground."

Coleridge, you will rejoice to hear that Cowper is recovered from his lunacy, and is employed on his translation of the Italian, etc., poems of Milton for an edition where Fuseli presides as designer.

Shelley may have wished to indicate a certain affinity between the inspiration of Milton as the poet of Paradise Lost, and that of Keats as the poet of Hyperion.

In any case most methods of reading between its lines would, if similarly applied, convict Sophocles, Schiller, and Shelley of incest, Shakespeare of murder, Milton of blasphemy, Scott of forgery, Marlowe and Goethe of compacts with the devil.

His father died a few months later; but, by a generous arrangement with the new rector, the family retained the rectory at Somersby, and here, for nearly six years, Tennyson lived in a retirement which strongly suggests Milton at Horton.

I never take up Milton without thinking of you.

Omission itself shows for a master-hand: see the magnificent passage omitted, and rightly, by Milton from the opening of his Comus.

Its pomp of divine syllables and glorious images is no more the poetry of Milton than the idea of man which he expressed.

Ellwood is, no doubt, expressing himself loosely, and his 'afterwards' need not necessarily relate to his first, or to his second, or even to his third visit to Milton after the poet's return to Artillery Walk, but refers vaguely to one of those 'occasions which drew him to London.'

[Footnote 5: It was especially for the novelty of Paradise Lost, that John Dennis had in 1704 exalted Milton above the ancients.

To fit them for the higher task of original composition, it would not be amiss if they were to undertake a translation of Pope or Milton into the vulgar tongue, for the benefit of those children of nature.

Our first parents in Paradise, are placed by Milton amidst A happy rural seat of various view; but let the same poet represent himself in his pensive or his cheerful moods, and he is at one time walking "by hedge-row elms on hillocks green;" and at another, "in trim gardens."

A letter was produced, when he had perhaps himself forgotten it, in which he tells Concanen, "Dryden, I observe, borrows for want of leisure, and Pope for want of genius; Milton out of pride, and Addison out of modesty.

LYCIDAS, the name of an exquisite dirge by Milton over the death by drowning of his friend Edward King.

"Do you think him Byronic?To my eye, the cast of his head is Shaksperian, rather; though I confess there is a little of Milton about the forehead!

He had the Latin poets at his fingers' ends, spoke French fluently, knew Milton by heart, and was a great admirer of Crabbe.

The Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; This elegant writer, to whom the world owes so many obligations, was born at Milton near Ambrosbury in the county of Wilts (of which place his father, Mr. Lancelot Addison, was then rector) on the 6th of May 1672; and being not thought likely to live, was baptized on the same day, as appears from the church register.

And we think of Milton among the triumphant royalists when we read of the Seraph Abdiel "faithful found among the faithless."