Effay on Majfinger, 147 



Therefore my age is as a lufty winter, 



Frofty but kindly *. As you like it, Aftll. Sc. 3. 



Our poet's writings are ftored with fine fenti- 

 ments, and the fame obfervation which has been 

 made on Shakefpeare's, holds true of our au- 

 thor, that his fentiments are fo artfully intro- 

 duced, that they appear to come uncalled, and 

 to force themfelves on the mihd of the fpeakerf . 

 In the legendary play of the Virgin Martyr, 

 Angelo delivers a beautiful fentiment, perfeftly 

 in the fpirit of the piece j 



-.-._- Look on the poor 



With gentle eyes, for in fuch habits, often. 

 Angels defire an alms. 



When Francifco, in the Duke of Milan, fuc- 

 ceeds in his defigns againft the life of Marcelia, 

 he remarks with exultation, that 



When he'% a fuitor, that brings cunning arm'd 

 With power to be his advocate, the denial 

 Is a difeafe as killing as the plague. 

 And chaftity a clue that leads to death. 



Pilander, in the Bondman, moralizes the in- 



• In an exprefSon of Archidamas, in the Bondman, we 

 difcover, perhaps, the origin of an image in Paradife Loft ; 



O'et our heads, v/'iih/ail-Jiretch^d luings, 



Deftruftion hovers. - - - - Aft I. Sc. 3. 

 Milton fays of Satan, 



- His fail-broad vannt 



He fpreads for flight, 

 t Mrs. Montagu's EfTay on Shakefpeare. 



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