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Of smallest magnitude clofe by the moon. Thither full fraught with mischievous revenge, Accurs'd, and in a cursed hour he hies.

this paffage, understanding that the Earth wa meant, and yet arguing very july that the Earth could not be meant: and Mr. Addifon has fallen into the like mistake, as appears from his words; "The "glimmering light which fhot into "the Chaos from the utmoft verge "of the creation, with the di"ftant difcovery of the Earth that "hung clofe by the moon, are wonderfully beautiful and poeti"cal." But how much more wonderful is the imagination of fuch prodigious distance, that after Satan had travelled on fo far, and

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comes within view of the whole world, it fhould ftill appear in comparifon with the empyreal Hea ven no bigger than the fmallest ftar, and that ftar appearing yet fmaller by its proximity to the moon! and how much more beautiful and poetical is it to open the fcene thus by degrees! Satan at firft defcries the whole world at a diftance in book the fecond, and then in book the third he discovers our planetary fyftem and the fun, and afterwards by the direction of Uriel the earth and neighbouring moon.

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