The addition of his empire, how it showed
In prospect from his Throne, how GOOD, how FAIR,
Answering his great Idea.”
Here good expresses the Useful Order—fair the Beauty.
TALBOYS.
The Heavenly Muse descended upon Earth is then the God-given Intelligence, in the Human bosom, of The Beautiful. It is the Faculty, as we are more accustomed to speak, of the Sublime and Beautiful;—a human ability, raised in the sacred writers by divine communions—Milton desires, but can hardly be thought in that first Invocation, or in this, (Book VII.) directly to pray, that the powers of his mortal genius may receive similar exaltation.
NORTH.
Speak boldly.
SEWARD.
I do.