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Ch. IV. GRANDEUR AND SUBLIMITY. 219
of Paradife lojl, is a fine illustration of the inx-
pression made by elevated objects:
So on he fares, and to the border comes
Of Eden , where delicious Paradise ,
Now nearer, crowns with her mclosure green,
As with a rural mound, the champaign head
Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy lides
With thicket overgrown , grotesque and wild ,
Access deny d ; and overhead up grew:
Insuperable height of loftiest {hade.
Cedar , and pine , and fir, and branching palm,
A sylvan seene and as the ranks aseend ,
Shade above {hade , a woody theatre
Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops
The verdrous wall os Paradise up sprung:
Which to our general sire gave prosped large
Into his nether empire neighb’ring round.
And higher than that wall a circling row
Of goodliest trees , loaden with sairest fruit,
Biossoms and fruits at once of golden hue,
Appear’d, with gay enamell’d colours mix’d.
B. 4. h i3i.
Though a grand objedl is agreeable, we musf not
infer that a little objeft is disagreeable ; which
would be unhappy for man, considering that he is
surrounded with so many objects of that kind.
The same holds with respess to place: a body pla-
ced high is agreeable ; but the same body placed
low, is not by that circumstance rendered dis-
of Paradife lojl, is a fine illustration of the inx-
pression made by elevated objects:
So on he fares, and to the border comes
Of Eden , where delicious Paradise ,
Now nearer, crowns with her mclosure green,
As with a rural mound, the champaign head
Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy lides
With thicket overgrown , grotesque and wild ,
Access deny d ; and overhead up grew:
Insuperable height of loftiest {hade.
Cedar , and pine , and fir, and branching palm,
A sylvan seene and as the ranks aseend ,
Shade above {hade , a woody theatre
Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops
The verdrous wall os Paradise up sprung:
Which to our general sire gave prosped large
Into his nether empire neighb’ring round.
And higher than that wall a circling row
Of goodliest trees , loaden with sairest fruit,
Biossoms and fruits at once of golden hue,
Appear’d, with gay enamell’d colours mix’d.
B. 4. h i3i.
Though a grand objedl is agreeable, we musf not
infer that a little objeft is disagreeable ; which
would be unhappy for man, considering that he is
surrounded with so many objects of that kind.
The same holds with respess to place: a body pla-
ced high is agreeable ; but the same body placed
low, is not by that circumstance rendered dis-