...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 tight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts." Surely this was quite impossible, for...

...absolutely necessary for him to clothe- his spirits with material forms. " But," says he, " he should have secured the consistency of his system, by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts." This is easily said ; but what if he could not seduce...

...absolutely necessary for him to clothe his spirits with material forms. "But," says he, "he should ed it, we really believe, from high and generous mo;,'•••-. He was in the strict seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts." This is easily said ; but what if he could not seduce...

...invested them with form and matter. This being necessary, was, therefore, defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping...are sometimes pure spirit, and sometimes animated body,"&c. (p. 174.) An attempt has been made by Macaulay to defend Milton agaiust Dr. Johnson's charge....

...invested them with form and matter. This, being necessary, was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping...perplexed his poetry with his philosophy. His infernal and celestical powers are sometimes pure spirit, and sometimes animated body, &c.' An attempt bas been...

...invested them with form and matter. This, being necessary, was therefore defensible ; and he should have secured the consistency of his system, by keeping...sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.123 But lie has unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philosophy. His infernal and celestial...

...invested them with form and matter. This, being necessary, was therefore defensible ; and he should have secured the consistency of his system, by keeping...sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.123 But hehas unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philosophy. His infernal and celestial...

...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...enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts." Surely this was quite impossible for the reason Johnson himself has given. The imagination, by its...

...absolutely necessary for him to clothe his spirits with material forms. ".But," says he, "he should have 1 secured the consistency of his system, by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts." This is easily said ; but what if he could not seduce...

...invested them with form and matter. This, being necessary, was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system, by keeping...sometimes animated body. When Satan walks with his lauce upon the burning mart, he has a body; when, in his passage between hell and the new world, he...