DR. DARWI1T. 



from them beneath the ihade of fable hair, 

 which, Adam-like, curled about his brows. 

 Lefs graceful, lefs amufing, lefs brilliant 

 than Mr. E., but more highly imagina- 

 tive, more claffical, and a deeper reafoner ; 

 ftricT: integrity, energetic friendfhip, open- 

 handed bounty, fedulous and diffufive cha- 

 rity, greatly overbalanced, on the fide of 

 virtue, the tincture of mifanthropic gloom 

 and proud contempt of common-life fo- 

 ciety, that marked the peculiar character, 

 which fliall unfold itfelf on thefe pages. In 

 fucceeding years, Mr. Day publifhed two 

 noble poems, The Dying Negro, and The 

 Devoted Legions ; alib Sandford and Mer- 

 ton, which by wife parents is put into 

 every youthful hand. 



Mr. Day dedicated the third edition o 

 The Dying Negro to Roufleau. That de- 

 dication has every force and every grace of 

 eloquence. The fentiments are ftrongly 

 characleriftic of their writer, except in the 

 c 2, philippic 



