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his fenfual blifs which may be miftaken, or his plethoric ill which 

 is technical. He is too fond of compounding new words by 

 the mere inartificial addition of two known ones, as -wave-Jttb- 

 je£led, JJjelter-feeking, rocky-crejled^ and crouding them together 

 until the reader is difgufted with their monotony. But many 

 of his limple epithets have a force of argumentative fignifica- 

 tion and beauty of delicate expreffion which the pomp of learned, 

 founds cannot often reach — as in the following lines : 



" The toiling pleafure Cckens into pain." 



" No bufy fteps the grals grown footway tread." 



" Here the pale artift plies the fickly trade." 



" The robe that wraps his limbs in filken floth." 



You have in a finglc epithet the ftate of Swifs morals fully 

 accounted for, 



And love's and friendfhip's finely-pointed dart 

 Fall blunted from each indurated heart. 



And in another epithet you have a complete pidture of the 

 Italian fcenery, 



Its uplands floping deck the mountains fide, 

 Woods over woods in gay theatric pride. 



Thus we fee that, though eafe and fimpliciy are the cha- 

 radleriflics of our authors writings, yet there is no want of 

 ornament in his imagery or of metaphorical graces in his dic- 



( N 2 ) tion. 



