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and the blasphemy of their words. Milton never shocked 
the Christian through the speeches of his fiend ; the person 
of the ineffable God was not held up to the hideous ridicule 
in the manner in which Byron’s poem is disfigured. 
The Bishop dealt with the music and the metre, and went 
on to speak of “ Paradise Regained.” It was untrue that 
this poem, barren as it was of imagery, was so because Milton 
was growing old ; the subject demanded different treatment 
and different diction from the earlier and greater work. 
After illustrating his paper by well-chosen extracts, Dr. 
Pearson said that Milton could not but project his own 
personality into everything he wrote — poem or prose. The 
egotism of a little soul was a contemptible thing, but the 
egoism of a great soul like his was delightful. All that 
Milton gave to us was the outcome of that grand personality 
of his which he always recognised as the gift of the great 
Taskmaster under Whose eye he ever worked. 
IF it /iDemonam. 
To those who were privileged to hear the 
two charming papers read before the Club by 
the late Dr. Pearson, this short notice of the 
second, which is unfortunately all the Editor has 
been able to obtain, will revive the regret felt 
at his lamented death. This is not the place 
to enlarge upon his work as Bishop ; or on those 
qualities of earnestness, sincerity, and transparent 
goodness of heart, which will long keep his 
memory green in the town where he worked and 
died. But we cannot omit to pay our tribute 
to the kindly and courteous scholar, who, in spite 
of the many and heavy demands upon him, yet 
found time to visit the Club and to give us, with 
singular charm of manner and felicity of expres- 
sion, the fruits of his mature, extensive, and 
sympathetic study of a great poet. 
