Criticism on Milton's Paradise lost From 'The Spectator' 31 December, 1711- 3 May, 1712 .. . e Mind, had he not given [he knewit was neceflary to give] it certain reding places andOpportunities of recovering it felf from time to time :He has [therefore] with great Addrefs interfperfedfeveral Speeches, Reflections, Similitudes, and thelike Reliefs to diverfifie his Narration, and eafe theAttention of his [the] Reader, that he might come frefhto his great Action, and by fuch a Contraft of Ideas,have a more lively talle of the nobler parts of hisDefcription. Addison corrected and re-corrected thi
Criticism on Milton's Paradise lost From 'The Spectator' 31 December, 1711- 3 May, 1712 .. . e Mind, had he not given [he knewit was neceflary to give] it certain reding places andOpportunities of recovering it felf from time to time :He has [therefore] with great Addrefs interfperfedfeveral Speeches, Reflections, Similitudes, and thelike Reliefs to diverfifie his Narration, and eafe theAttention of his [the] Reader, that he might come frefhto his great Action, and by fuch a Contraft of Ideas,have a more lively talle of the nobler parts of hisDefcription. Addison corrected and re-corrected this last sentence. The first and lastreadings, as in the original and second editions, are as above. The inter-mediate reading, according to the Errata in No. 369, of the original issue, isas follows: As he knew all the Arts of affecting the Mind, hehas given it certain retting places and Opportunitiesof recovering it felf from time to time : feveral Speeches,Reflections, Similitudes, and the like Reliefs beinginterfperfed, to diversifie his Narration, eafe theattention of his Numb* CCCXXXIX. The SPECTATOR. Vt his exordia primis Omnia, 6° ipfe tener Mundi concreverit durare folum, 6° difcindere Nerea pontoCceperit, 6° rerum paullatim fumereformas. Virg. {He fung the fee ret Seeds of Natures Frame;How Seas, and Earth, and Air, and aclive Flame%Fell thro the mighty Void, and ill their FallWere blindly gathered in this goodly tender Soil then fliff ning by degreesShut from the bounded Earth the boiniding Earth and Ocean various Forms difclofe,And a nau Sun to the nciu World arofe. Drydcn.} Saturday, March 29. 1712. WDNGINUS has obferved, that there may! be a Loftinefs in Sentiments, where there I is no Paffion, and brings Inftances out of I Ancient Authors tofupport this his Opinion. J The Pathetick, as that great Critick ob-ferves, may animate and inflame the Sublime, but isnot effential to it. Accordingly, as he further remarks,we ver
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