... his approach, and to the heart inspires/ Vernal delight and joy, able to drive/ All sadness but despair'.15 Johnson's line certainly appears to echo Milton's, indeed, the Miltonic theme of the pastoral as paradise, set against the city as a harbour of vice, reverberates throughout London, and as Rees argues ... Niall Rudd makes the important observation that Thales' lines, which we cited earlier as creating an idyllic contrast to London, again appear to allude to Milton, both in terms of content and in terms of their Miltonic sublimity; 'there prune thy Walks, support thy drooping Fl...

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