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a faint erroneous ray, 



Glanc'd from th' iniperfedl furfaces of things, 

 Flings half an image on the {training eye. 



Milton, who had for many years loft the advantages of the 

 vifual ray, and had not vifible images fo frefh and accurate 

 in his fancy, has defcribed night by its effe(Sl on the animal 

 creation, by the filenc9 which accompanies it, and the fanciful 

 and claflic imagery of Hefperus and the moon. Night with 

 Young is virtue's immemorial friend, and loud calls on devo- 

 tion; to Waller it only gives an opportunity of difcovering the 

 charms of Mira's mind, by concealing the dazzling fplendor 

 of her perfonal graces. 



Atterbury and Clarkb have both written fermons on this 

 text : " If they hear not Mofes and the prophets, neither will 

 " they be perfuaded though one rofe from the dead." Each 

 of them begins by explaining the occalion on which thofe words 

 were fpoken : but Atterbury in the courfe of his explication 

 fhews tis the fitnefs of the rich man's making his requeft 

 particularly to Abraham, and defcribes with pointed irony the 

 voluptuaries of his own day under the charadler of the fen- 

 fualifts of the evangelical times ; while Clarke in his intro- 

 dudlion exa<ftly afcertains how far the rich's man's reafonings 

 were juft, and wherein lay his miftake. Each then proceeds 

 to the main body of his difcotirfe, and here Atterbury confi- 

 dering the poficion in the text as a truth rather furprizing, 



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