• The Muse of Astronomy, or things celestial, represented as crowned with stars and robed in azure. Milton, Paradise Lost , VII 1, makes the same invocation:⁠— “Descend from heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing. The meaning, not the name, I call: for thou Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell’st; but, heavenly-born, Before the hills appeared, or fountain flowed, Thou with Eternal Wisdom didst converse, Wisdom thy sister, and with her didst play In presence of the Almighty Father, pleased With thy celestial song.” ↩
• The general form which objects may have in common, and by which they resemble each other. ↩
• The faculty which lends discourse to reason is apprehension, or the faculty by which things are first conceived. See Canto XVIII 22:⁠— “Your apprehension from some real thing An image draws, and in yourselves displays it, So that it makes the soul turn unto it.” ↩