id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 62572 Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Milton .txt text/plain 19599 985 69 love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet, By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in Milton the artificial manner indispensable to such works is admirably general means nothing: but, applied to the writings of Milton, it is passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known or more In none of the works of Milton is his peculiar manner more happily The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante, as the hieroglyphics great men has in a considerable degree taken its character from their That from which the public character of Milton derives its great and great men we trust that we know how to prize; and of these was Milton. ./cache/62572.txt ./txt/62572.txt