THE BEE, 



LITER ART IVEEKLT IXIELLIGENCER, 



WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, I79I. 



Tb the Editor of the Bee. 

 S I,R, 

 I obsekve that you have made confiderable extra£l3 

 from the mifcellanies in profe and verfe, lately printed 

 here. The following article, as well as feveral others 

 by the fame hand, was intended for a place in that vo- 

 lume, but arrived too late. If you think the prefent 

 proper for your publication, I Ihall perhaps tranfa)it 

 you fome other articles of a fimilar nature. 



Amicus. 



Remarks on Dr. Young's Night Thoughts, 



This vifionary poet 



" Makes fweet religion 

 " A rhapfody of words." Shakespeare *. 



— I wonder not that his fon Lorenzo was an infi- 

 del. In this age, we have two authors prodigioufly 

 great in the outre ftyle ; one in verfe, and one in 

 profe ; one ferious, the other comical. They are both 

 much admired by the multitude of readers, com- 



* None of the human faculties are longer of attaining perfe<Skion than 

 ihofc which fervc as a bafu for a correA tafte in compofition. — Hence it 

 happens, that young pt-rfons, in general, aditiire as excellent, unnatural 



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