...ding to quantity, so far as that is possible in English, and as Cowper somewhat extravagantly says, gives almost as many proofs of it in his Paradise Lost as there are lines in the poem. But when Mr. Masson tells us that Self-fed and self-consumed: if this fail, and Dwells in all Heaven charity so rare, are only nine syllables, and that in Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream, ...