DR. DARWIN. 189 



Dr. Darwin gives us, in this poem, 

 claffic fables from Homer, Virgil, and Ovid, 

 and fo gives them, places the perfbns of 

 each little drama in fuch new and intereft- 

 ing fituations and attitudes, that he muft 

 indeed be a dull profe-man who lhall ex- 

 claim undelighted, " This is an old ftory." 



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