P. 111. _As when Heaven's fire_. "Paradise Lost," I, 612. _All is not lost_. I, 206. _that intellectual being_. II, 147. _being swallowed up_. II, 149. P. 112. _Fallen cherub_. I, 157. _rising aloft_. I, 225. _the mystic German critics_. Cf. p. 344. P. 113. _Is this the region_. "Paradise Lost," I, 242. P. 114. _Salmasius_. At the request of Charles II, Claude de Saumaise (Claudius Salmasius), professor at Leyden, had written a vindication of Charles I, "Defensio pro Carolo I" (1649), to which Milton replied with the "Defensio pro Populo Anglicano" (1651). The controversy between the two is noted for the virulency of the personal invective. _with hideous ruin_. "Paradise Lost," I, 46. _retreated in a silent valley_. II, 547. _a noted political writer_. Dr. Stoddart, editor of the Times and brother-in-law of Hazlitt, whom the critic bitterly hated, and Napoleon are here referred to. Cf. "Political Essays," III, 158-159. P. 115. _Longinus preferred the Iliad._ "Whereas in the _Iliad_, which was written when his genius was in its prime, the whole structure of the poem is founded on action and struggle, in the _Odyssey_ he generally prefers the narrative style, which is proper to old age. Hence Homer in his _Odyssey_ may be compared to the setting sun; he is still as great as ever, but he has lost his fervent heat. The strain is now pitched in a lower key than in the 'Tale of Troy Divine': we begin to miss that high and equable sublimity which never flags or sinks, that continuous current of moving incidents, those rapid transitions, that force of eloquence, that opulence of imagery which is ever true to Nature. Like the sea when it retires upon itself and leaves its shores waste and bare, henceforth the tide of sublimity begins to ebb, and draws us away into the dim region of myth and legend. In saying this I am not forgetting the fine storm-pieces in the _Odyssey_, the story of the Cyclops, and other striking passages. It is Homer grown old I am discussing, but still it is Homer." On the Sublime, IX, trans. Havell. _no kind of traffic_. Cf. "Tempest," ii, 1, 148. _The generations were prepared_. Wordsworth's "Excursion," VI, 554. _the unapparent deep_. "Paradise Lost," VII, 103. P. 116. _know to know no more_. Cowper's "Truth," 327. _They toiled not_. Matthew, vi, 28. _In them the burthen_. Wordsworth's "Lines Composed above Tintern Abbey." _such as angels weep_. "Paradise Lost," I, 620. P. 117. _In either hand_. XII, 637. POPE This selection begins with the second paragraph of the fourth lecture on the "English Poets."