THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON.

EDITED BY

SIR EGERTON BRYDGES, BART.

John Milton

Is not each great, each amiable Muse

Of classic ages in our MILTON met?

A genius universal as his theme;

Astonishing as Chaos; as the bloom

Of blowing Eden fair; as Heaven sublime!-THOMSON.

ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS,

DESIGNED BY JOHN MARTIN AND J. W. M. TURNER, R. A.

BOSTON:

PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY.

1854.