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deferve your acquaintance let me advife 
you to read Rolli's Tranflation of Paradife 
Loft t with the original before you. Thofe 
who are fuperficially acquainted with the 
Italian language, will fuppofe it incapable 
of refle&ing Milton's fublimityj but they 
will find themfelves miftaken. The Italian 
language, though foft and fluent, is never- 
thelefs copious and comprehenfive. Rolli, 
in his tranflation, has loft very few of Mil- 
ton's ideas. 
He was buried in St. Giles* church, Crip- 
ple-gate. In 1737 a monument of Milton 
was erected in Weftminfter Abbey, at the 
expence of Mr. William Eenfon, auditor 
of the impreft. If you wifh to know 
more of Milton, you will find various Lives 
of him in the Libraries, particularly thofe 
by Toland, Philips, Richardfon, Fenton, 
Birch ; and in the Biographia Britannica, you 
will fee the facts in thefe feveral Lives con- 
centered. 
I fliall now give you a fketch of a man 
whom all nations acknowledged to have 
been the glory of human nature : the man 
of whom our moft correct and moft har- 
monious poet, hath faid with great felicity 
of imagination, 
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