Criticism on Milton's Paradise lost From 'The Spectator' 31 December, 1711- 3 May, 1712 .. . Saturday, March i, 1712. OR A CE advifes a Poet to confider .tho-roughly the Nature and Force of hisGenius. Milton feems to have known,perfectly well, wherein his Strength lay,and has therefore chofen a Subject entirelyconformable to thofe Talents, of which he was his Genius was wonderfully turned to the Sublime,his Subject is the noblelt that could have entered intothe Thoughts of Man. Every thing that is truly greatand aftonifhing, has a place in it. The whole Syftemof the intellectual Worl
Criticism on Milton's Paradise lost From 'The Spectator' 31 December, 1711- 3 May, 1712 .. . Saturday, March i, 1712. OR A CE advifes a Poet to confider .tho-roughly the Nature and Force of hisGenius. Milton feems to have known,perfectly well, wherein his Strength lay,and has therefore chofen a Subject entirelyconformable to thofe Talents, of which he was his Genius was wonderfully turned to the Sublime,his Subject is the noblelt that could have entered intothe Thoughts of Man. Every thing that is truly greatand aftonifhing, has a place in it. The whole Syftemof the intellectual World; the Chaos, and the Crea-tion ; Heaven, Earth and Hell; enter into the Con-ftitution of his Poem. Having in the Firfl and Second Book reprefentedthe Infernal World with all its Horrours, the Thread ofhis Fable naturally leads him into the oppofite Regionsof Blifs and Glory. If Miltons Majefly forfakes him any where, it is inthofe Parts of his Poem, where the Divine Perfons areintroduced as Speakers. One may, I think, obfervethat the Author proceeds with a kind of Fear andTrembling, whi
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