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" Mind, mind alone, bear witnefs earth and heaven ! 

 " The living fountain in itlelf contains 

 t( Of beauteous and fublime ! 



Yet did her choice fupport his axiom 

 when fhe took Dr. Darwin for her huf- 

 band. Darwin, never handfome, or per- 

 fonally graceful, with extremely impeded 

 utterance ; with hard features on a rough 

 furface ; older much in appearance than 

 in reality ; lame and clumfy ! and this, 

 when half the wealthy youth of Derby- 

 fhire were faid to have difputed the prize 

 with him. 



But it was not without fome ffipula- 

 tions, apparently hazardous to his pecuniary 

 intereft, that Mrs. Pole was perfuaded to 

 defcend from her Laura-eminence to wife- 

 hood, and probably to filence for ever, 

 in the repofe of pofleffion, thofe tender 

 ftrains, which romantic love and defpair, 

 and afterwards the ftimulating reftleflhefs of 

 doubtful hope, had occafionally awakened. 



During 



