Criticism on Milton's Paradise lost From 'The Spectator' 31 December, 1711- 3 May, 1712 .. . mofl ufeful and noble Productions in ourEngli/h Verfe. The Reader cannot but be pleafed tofind the Depths of Philofophy enlivened with all theCharms of Poetry, and to fee fo great a Strength ofReafon, amidfl fo beautiful a Redundancy of [the] Ima-gination. The Author has fhewn us that Defign inall the Works of Nature, which neceffarily leads us tothe Knowledge of its firft Caufe. In fhort, he hasilluflrated, by numberlefs and inconteftable Inftances,that Divine Wifdom, which the Son of Sirach has fonob

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Criticism on Milton's Paradise lost From 'The Spectator' 31 December, 1711- 3 May, 1712 .. . mofl ufeful and noble Productions in ourEngli/h Verfe. The Reader cannot but be pleafed tofind the Depths of Philofophy enlivened with all theCharms of Poetry, and to fee fo great a Strength ofReafon, amidfl fo beautiful a Redundancy of [the] Ima-gination. The Author has fhewn us that Defign inall the Works of Nature, which neceffarily leads us tothe Knowledge of its firft Caufe. In fhort, he hasilluflrated, by numberlefs and inconteftable Inftances,that Divine Wifdom, which the Son of Sirach has fonobly afcribed to the Supreme Being in his Forma-tion of the World, when he tells us, that He createdher,,a?tdfaw her, and numbered her, and poured her outupon all his Works.,f t In the advertisements immediately under this paragraph in the Originalissue is the following;— Lately Publishd, Creation. A Philosophical Poem. Demonstrating the Existence andProvidence of a God. In Seven Books. By Sir Richard Blackmore,Knt., ,and Fellow of the College of Physicians in London, &c. &

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