, before the Fall, are a different Species from that of Mankind, who are descended from them; and
but a Poet of the most unbounded Invention, and the most exquisite Judgment, could have filled their Conversation and Behaviour with
so many apt
Circumstances during their State of Innocence.
Nor is it sufficient for an Epic Poem to be filled with such Thoughts as are
Natural
, unless it abound also with such as are
Sublime