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In Mr. Day's epitaph there is fome pa- 

 thos, and more poetry ; but it is far from 

 being faultlefs. Perhaps it may be it's lean: 

 error, that the name of the bewailed is 

 omitted, which Dr. Johnibn has well ob- 

 ferved, ought always to be involved in the 

 verfes. It muft, however, be confefled, 

 that, in this cafe, the noun perfbnal was not 

 calculated to appear with grace in verfe ; 

 but that confideration, though it doubtlels 

 caufed, will not juftify, the omiffion. In 

 Dr. Darwin's Elegy, it is placed out of all 

 poiTibility of ludicrous equivoque, and fo 

 accents the laft line, as to produce no 

 mean or inharmonious found. The com- 

 mendation, alfb, is, in the elegy, of much 

 more dignified modefty. Praife may be 

 allowed to glow even upon a tomb/ione, but 

 fhould never be hyperbolic. The epitaph 

 is too exclamatory ; and to aflert that no 

 fecond lofs, fo deplorable, can be fuftained, 

 is infinitely too much for one, who, how> 



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