...absolutely""TTe"cessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms. " But," says he, " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts." This is easily said ; but what if Milton could not...

...necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms. "But," says he, "the poet should have 10 secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts." This is easily said; but what if Milton could not...

...images, and that he could not show angels acting but by instruments of action ; he therefore in20 vested them with form and matter. This, being necessary,...drop it;" from' his thoughts. But he has unhappily 2 sV perplexed his poetry with his philosophy. His infernal and celestial powers are sometimes pure...

...master, and seek for companions. that he could not show angels acting but by instruments of action ; he therefore invested them with form and matter. This...When Satan walks with his lance upon the " burning marl," he has a body ; when, in his passage between hell and the new world, he is in danger of sinking...

...absolutely necessary that the spirit should be clothed with material forms. "But," says he, "the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts." This is easily said ; but what if Milton could not...

...show angels acting but by instruments of action; he therefore invested them with form and matter. 10 This, being necessary, was therefore defensible; and...his philosophy. His infernal and celestial powers 15 are sometimes pure spirit, and sometimes animated body. When Satan walks with his lance upon the...

...the toad (iv. 800), and of the Serpent (ix. 85, 86, 187—90). There is in fact some inconsistency: "his infernal and celestial powers are sometimes pure spirit, and sometimes animated body" (Johnson). The difficulty is really insuperable, but Milton purposely modifies its effect, particularly...

...Adam throws the blame of all upon his Maker. ' The woman that Thou gavest me,' etc." His (Milton's) infernal and celestial powers are sometimes pure spirit and sometimes animated body. "Stock of Killala2 believed that angels were not wholly immaterial ; he held that God alone could act...

...absolutely necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms. ' But,' says he, ' the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts.' This is easily said : but what if Milton could not...

...immateriality supplied no images, and that he could not show angels acting but by instruments of action; he therefore invested them with form and matter. This,...immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it ifrom his thoughts. But he has, unhappily, perplexed his poetry with his philosophy. His infernal and...