DR, DARWIN. 157 



and fparkles very brightly ; but it's refulting 

 mafs df light by no means amounts to 

 fplendor. 



Nature hallows, and poetry confecrates 

 all the moon-light fcenery in Milton. It 

 is never more charming than in the fol- 

 lowing inflance. 



Now glow'd the firmament 



With living faphirs. Hefperus, that led 

 The ftarry hoft, rode brightest, till the moon, 

 Rifing in clouded majefty, o'er all 

 Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerlefs light, 

 And o'er the dark her lilver mantle threw. 



Since Pope and Cowper, as translators 

 of Homer, have been brought into a degree 

 of comparifon on thefe pages, the writer 

 of them cannot refift the avowal of her 

 opinion, that, on tke whole, and confidered 

 merely as poems, great fuperiority is with 

 Pope, as to perfpicuity, elegance, and in- 

 tereft ; the grace of picture, and the har- 

 mony 



