_ 1 Milton’s Prose: A Lecture delivered in the Museum of Irish
Industry, St. Stephen’s Green, by the Right Hon. Judge Keogh_: The
Irish Times, June 1, 1865.
2 We print the words of the judge as we find them, though it seems
irreverential, not to say worse, to compare a regicide, and a man
who denied the divinity of Christ, to the apostle of the nations.
Though Milton was gifted with the highest natural powers, yet, not
having the qualities of a true Christian, he was only like sounding
brass or a tinkling cymbal.
_ 3 Works of Samuel Johnson_: Dublin, 1793, vol. v., p. 72.
4 The _Works of John Milton_. London: Bickers and Bush, 1863: vol. iv.
pp. 411, 412.
5 It is entitled _A Treatise of True Religion, Heresy, Schism,
Toleration, and the best means to prevent the growth of Popery_.
6 “As for tolerating the exercise of their [the Catholic] religion, I
answer, that toleration is either public or private; and the
exercise of their religion, as far as it is idolatrous, can be
tolerated neither way; _not publicly_, without grievous and
insufferable scandal given to all conscientious beholders; _not
privately_, without great offence to God, declared against all kind
of idolatry, though secret”—_Milton’s Works_, already quoted, vol.
v. p. 413.
7 See Bayle; _Dictionnaire Historique et Critique_: art. Milton, note
o; also _Johnson’s Works_, vol. v. pp. 95, 96.
_ 8 Quarterly Review_, October, 1825, p. 446.