39 it is not true that Charlemain fell There, nor his Peerage; He Dy'd Many years after in his Bed, and was not fo much as Prefent at that Rout, which was but of a Small Part of his Troops led by One of his peers. See Mezeray and the rest of the French Writers.

589

He above the reft

in Shape and Gesture Proudly Eminent Stood like a Tower

He most Eminent in Shape and Gefture, Stood like a Tower.

600

his Face

Deep Scars of Thunder had intrench'd, the Scarrs had made Trenches There.

Devils are ufually painted with Horns, Sawcer Eyes, Ugly Faces, Tayls, Cloven Feet, &c. Milton's Devils are No Such, He must be read Without Such Images, His are Seen to be Angels ftill, though Scarr'd, and Disfigur'd.

'tis Hard, Impoffible, to Conceive a Character of Beauty proper to a Bleffed Spirit; but more So to Communicate that Idea by Painting; Some have given us Such as Few befides Themselves would ever have had Otherwise, nor even Themselves had they not Apply'd their Fine Geniuses to get the Best they could Attain to; but Thefe are known Only to Those who Converfe with the Works of Rafaelle, Corregio, Guido, &c. the AnD 4

cients

cients had not Thofe Sublime Subjects; a Christian Angel has Something more than a Heathen Deity, and very Different. More Difficult yet is it to Imagine a proper Idea of a Ruin'd Arch-Angel; Nor Guido, nor Rafaelle has Succeeded Here, it was not a Subject Agreeable to their Kind of Genius. Michael Angelo was more Fit for it, and he has done Vaftly beyond any Other, and without falling Deep into the Common Follies, Such as are mention'd Above; but ftill they are not what Milton has directed Us to Imagine. Tafo, from whom he has taken many Fine thoughts, has been Avoided by him here; for Talo has gone into the Horns, Tayls, &c. No Man has Ever Thought in This, (as in Other Refpects) like Milton. O that he had Painted! and as he Conceiv'd! What are we to do in This Cafe? Let us Imagine Virgin Beauty with Masculine Strength and Vigour, all in the Utmoft Conceivable Degree, the Strength and Vigour little Impair'd, but the Beauty Wither'd, Ruin'd by Age, Difeafe, and Scarrs; and by Guile, Envy, Malice, Rage, Luft, Grief, Defpair, &c. then add Vaftnefs of Proportion and you have Nearly One of Milton's Devils, when Drefs'd and Arm'd in a Suitable Manner, not as an Ancient Greek or Roman, but in a Habit, Odd, and Difagreeable, Tatter'd, Foul, &c. as the Good Angels fhould be Conceiv'd in the Bloom of Perfect Beauty of Body and Mind,and Habited, Arm'd, and Wing'd with a Proprie

ty, Elegance, and Gayety beyond any thing to be feen in the Works of the Greatest Mafters; beyond what Colours, even Those of Silks, Flowers, or precious Stones, can fhew.

When the Imagination is Rais'd as much as Poffible, let it ftill know More is Un-conceiv'd; Let the Lark Sing after he is Loft in Air.

605 Pafron

from Paffio, Grief, Disorder, Pity, &c.

609 Amerc't

Mulcted, Depriv'd.

610 and from Eternal Splendors flung Splendors, not Glories, but Hierarchies. Milton alfo calls them Ardors, v. 219, Both which he had from Dante. flung from the Society of the Bleft, their Names are Blotted Out, Ras'd from the Books of Life. v. 362.

611

yet faithful how they stood

to fee the true Conftruction of This we must go back to v. 605 for the Verb; the Sense Then is This, to behold the Fellows of his Crimes, Condemn'd, &c. yet How they stood Faithful.

613 Scath'd

Hurt, or Damag'd.

615

the Blafted Heath

it

it was a Beautiful Forreft, 'tis Now a Barren Heath, Blafted with Lightning.

616

Doubl'd Ranks

Crowding and Pushing upon One Another to

hear.

622 a Myriad

is Ten Thousand.

626 But what power of Mind, &c. This Whole Period is an Impudent Boaft of Satan's, Contriving with Lyes to Draw after him This Wretched Hoft; he had but a Third part, and 'twould have been No Such Wonder They were Vanquifh'd by the reft. V. 710.

636

Councels Different

it is not for a General to Appeal to his Army that he has not Differ'd from Them in Judgment; nor was This Milton's Thought. Councels Different Here are private Views, 'tis a Latinifm. Se Exercitum non deferturos neque fibi feparatim a reliquis confilium capturos. Caf Bell. Civ. 1. C. 76.

Satan had own'd just before v. 642. that They had been Deceiv'd by God's Concealing his Strength; He Now fays He also fhall find Himself Mistaken in His Turn; He fhall

find Our Cunning fuch as that tho' we have been Over-powr'd, we are not More than Half fubdu'd.

650 Space may produce New Worlds, whereof So rife

there went a Fame in Heaven

Milton has very judiciously made Such an Event as the New Creation to have happen'd, not on a Sudden, but Long Refolv'd on and Foretold. This gives a Dignity to it and to Mankind. See alfo II. 345. 830.

take the Whole Speech beginning v. 622. "He Glories in that they Durft war with "God; Excuses their Wrong Judgment con

cerning their own Strength, and yet Pre"fumes on it: Cafts off all Blame of his Own Conduct and Courage, and lays it on God's "having Conceal'd His Almightiness. Now "(Better Inftructed) he Advises to carry on the "War by Fraud, by which Means he hopes "that God fhall find Himself Mistaken in "Them as They had been in Him. Gives "the First Hint of the Project afterwards Ex"ecuted.

662 Open or Underflood

Open or Meant.

670 Grifly

Ugly, Dreadfull. this word alfo carries an