I allow that some of his blank lines may appear unrhythmical; but Experience, especially if she bring with her a knowledge of Dante, will elucidate all their movements.

I exhort my younger friends to read Milton aloud when they are alone, and thus learn the worth of word-sounds.

They will find him even in this an educating force.

The last ode ought to be thus read for the magnificent dance-march of its motion, as well as for its melody.
Show me one who delights in the _Hymn on the Nativity_, and I will show you one who may never indeed be a singer in this world, but who is already a listener to the best.

But how different it is from anything of George Herbert's! It sets forth no feeling peculiar to Milton; it is an outburst of the gladness of the company of believers.