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fpcies of praife here given to this work 

 is all that it's author defired to excite. 

 We have no right to complain of any 

 writer, or to cenfure him for not pofleffing 

 thofe powers at which he did not aim, and 

 which are not neceffarily connected with 

 his plan. 



To the fubj eft Dr. Darwin chofe, his 

 talents were eminently calculated. Nei- 

 ther Pope nor Gray would have executed 

 it fo well; nor would Darwin have written 

 fo fine an Eflay on Man, fo inwerefting a 

 Churchyard, or fo lovely an Ode on the 

 profpecl: of the fchool at which he was 

 educated, had that fchool been Eaton. 

 He would not have fucceeded fo trantcend- 

 ently on themes, which demanded cither 

 pathos, or that fort of tender and delicate 

 feeling in the poet, which excites in the 

 reader fympathetic fenfation ; or yet in the 

 facred morality of ethic poetry, which 

 however it may admit, or require that 

 N 3 fancy 



