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Rh the Divine Poetry is most like itself in Prose. One Observation more I would leave with Your Lordship; Milton himself, as great a Genius as he was, oweth his Superiority over Homer and Virgil, in Majesty of Thought and Splendor of Expression, to the Scriptures: They are the Fountain from which he derived his Light; the Sacred Treasure that enriched his Fancy, and furnished him with all the Truth and Wonders of and His Creation, of Angels and Men, which no mortal Brain was able either to discover or conceive; And in Him, my Lord, of all human Writers, You will meet all his Rh