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with a mafter's hand and poet's fire," has fecurcd to himfclf 

 the praife of originahty, by blending both with his own view 

 of Nature. To enumerate his engravings, and comment on 

 them in ihe detail, would be more than the prefent difpofal 

 of the writer's time will permit; yet the mention of a few 

 of their leading traits is at leaft due to the merits and the 

 memory of fo excellent an artift. Freedom, boldnefs, and 

 an happy imitation of the wild forms of inartificial Nature 

 are among their diftinguifliing features. The drawing of his 

 trees in particular; his difcrimination of their feveral cha- 

 raftcrs ; his thorough knowledge of their various modes of 

 growth, combined with a mode»of expreffion arifing fpon- 

 tancoufly out of his fubjct% have perhaps never been ex- 

 celled. Among the rude and artlefs landfcapes of the 

 South-fea iflands, or the wild and luxuriant forms of lake 

 and forcft fccnery, his etching- tool and his fancy would revel 

 delighted, and communicate to every cultivated eye a corre- 

 fponding pleaftire. With fuch claims to fuperior art, men 

 of difcernment will lament that it was the lot of Pouncy to 

 be obliged to trammel his talents, and employ a confiderable 

 portion of his time in engraving fac-Jimih-s from the pages 

 of Doomfday-book; in tracing the Spanifli lines before Gi- 

 braltar; and on other fubjefts that required mcTcly carie, 

 and the excrcife of a certain regular mathematical ability he 

 did not naturally poflefs. On the whole, it may be laid of 

 his works, which are chiefly after Farington, Heam'e, Smith, 

 and Wilfon, that they will continue to be admired wherever 

 legitimate art and true tatle are not obfcurcd by the falfc 

 glitter fo much the faftiion of the day; and that, in private 

 life, the hofpitality of his manners, the compafs of his know- 

 ledge, the liberality of his fcntimcnts, and the goodncfs of 

 his heart, will long be remembered with regret by thofe 

 who had the happinefs of being intimately known to him. 



