Samuel Johnson quote: Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus...

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

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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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