Criticism on Milton's Paradise lost From 'The Spectator' 31 December, 1711- 3 May, 1712 .. . ich Adamhere gives fuch diftant difcoveries, brings about thatfatal Event which is the Subject of the Poem. HisDifcourfe, which follows the gentle Rebuke he re-ceivd from the Angel, fhews that his Love, howeverviolent it might appear, was flill founded in Reafon,and confequently not improper for Paradife. Neither heroutfideform fo fair, nor oughtIn procreation common to all kinds{Though higher of the genial bed by far,And with myflerious reverence I deem)So much delights me as thofe graceful acls,Thofe
Criticism on Milton's Paradise lost From 'The Spectator' 31 December, 1711- 3 May, 1712 .. . ich Adamhere gives fuch diftant difcoveries, brings about thatfatal Event which is the Subject of the Poem. HisDifcourfe, which follows the gentle Rebuke he re-ceivd from the Angel, fhews that his Love, howeverviolent it might appear, was flill founded in Reafon,and confequently not improper for Paradife. Neither heroutfideform fo fair, nor oughtIn procreation common to all kinds{Though higher of the genial bed by far,And with myflerious reverence I deem)So much delights me as thofe graceful acls,Thofe thou find decencies that daily flowFrom all her words and actions mixt with loveAndfweet compliance, which declare unfeignedUnion of mind, or in us both one Soul,Harmony to behold in wedded pair. Adams Speech, at parting with the Angel, has in ita Deference and Gratitude agreeable to an InferioiNature, and at the fame time a certain Dignity andGreatnefs, fuitable to the Father of Mankind in hisState of Innocence. Numb. CCCLI. The SPECTATOR. —In te omnis dotnus indinata recumbit. {On thee the Fortunes of our Houfe depend.) Saturday, April 12. 1712, |F we look into the three great HeroicPoems which have appeard in the World,we may obferve that they are built uponvery flight Foundations. Homer livednear 300 Years after the Trojan War, and,as the Writing of Hiftory was not then in ufe amongthe Greeks, we may very well fuppofe, that the Tradi-tion of Achilles and Ulyffes had brought down butvery few Particulars to his Knowledge, tho there isno queftion but he has wrought into his two Poemsfuch of their remarkable Adventures as were ftilltalked of among his Contemporaries. The Story of ALneas, on which Virgil founded hisPoem, was likewife very bare of Circumftances, andby that means afforded him an Opportunity of em-bellifhing it with Fiction, and giving a full Range tohis own Invention. We find, however, that he hasinterwoven, in the courfe of his Fable, the principalParti
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