[368] Pliny, Book viii., Epist. 5.
[369] "Says very justly" (folio).
[370] "Paradise Lost," iv. 639.
[371] "But as he [Milton] endeavours everywhere to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words which he had been digging from the mines of Chaucer and of Spenser, and which, with all their rusticity, had somewhat of venerable in them. But I found not there neither that for which I looked ['beautiful turns']." (Dryden's" Discourse on Satire.")
[372] "Paradise Lost," ii. 557.
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