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poetry and from which he caught by congenial feeUng the 

 graces of elegant expreffion and harmoniovis verfification. Every 

 poem of Pope's contains fomething, which to a reader who 

 knows our author will recall fome palTage in his works by a 

 word or by a conftrudion, by fome turn of the verfe or of 

 the fentiment. Goldfmith's verfification is more feeble and 

 more carelefs than Mr. Pope's, but perhaps it is more varied 

 and more funple. I cannot avoid quoting one of the fhorteft 

 of Goldfmith's poems as a fpecimen, among many other beau- 

 ties, of the eafe of his conftrudlions and the harmony of his 

 numbers. 



ON MEMORY. 



Oh ! memory, thou fond deceiver 



Still importunate and vain, 

 To former joys recurring ever, 



And turning all the paft to pain. 



Thou, like the world, th' opprefl oppreifing, 



Thy fmiles encreafe the wretch's woe ; 

 And he who wants each other bleffing 



In thee is fure to find a foe. 



In the lines of Goldfmith we hare no elaborate equipoifc 

 between the parts where the latter half is made an epigram 

 upon the former. His only artificial ornament is alliteration 

 which occurs too frequently for us to fufpedl its being cafual. 



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