Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but…

Samuel Johnson
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Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones. ✨ To Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written 'Paradise Lost' should write such poor Sonnets, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 305 (13 June 1784)
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