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Weaver." It is evidently of the Darwinian 

 fchool, though in a fhorter meafure, and 

 has genius to fupport the peculiar manner 

 of poetic writing which it emulates and 

 has caught. In this poem we meet appro- 

 priate and vivid landfcape. Some of the 

 epithets are perhaps exceptionable, and too 

 free ufe is made of the word glory in feve- 

 ral inftances, particularly in its application 

 to moon-light. Pope's faulty, though ad- 

 mired fimile, in the laft paflage of the 8th 

 book of the Iliad, has milled fucceeding 

 poets ; inducing them to lavifh upon the 

 lunar effufions thofe terms of fuperlative 

 fplendor which they fliould referve for the 

 fun in his ftrength. The Bard of Twick- 

 enham, fo generally difcriminating, is in- 

 difcriminate when he ftyles the moon 

 " refulgent lamp of night/' and its 

 white and modcft beams " a flood of 

 " glory." Scholars fay, he found no ex- 

 ample in the original paflage for this fun- 

 defraud- 



