has excelled all others in the Propriety of his Sentiments.
Milton
shines likewise very much in this Particular: Nor must we omit one Consideration which adds to his Honour and Reputation.
Homer
and
Virgil
introduced Persons whose Characters are commonly known among Men, and such as are to be met with either in History, or in ordinary Conversation.
Milton's
Characters, most of them, lie out of Nature, and were to be formed purely by his own Invention. It shews a greater Genius in
Shakespear