DR. DARWIN, 2OI 



" and filver darts," might fuit the cyprian 

 but not the hieroglyphic Cupid. 



- Higher far 

 And with myfterious reverence we deen. 



Her Nymphs thus eulogized, 



The Goddefs paus'd, admir'd, with confclous pride, 

 Th' effulgent legions marlhall'd by her fide, 

 Forms ipher'd in fire, with trembling light array d, 

 JEns- without weight^ and fubftance without ftade, 



It may be obferved of the two laft lines 

 that the imagination, which could with 

 fuch appropriate and novel beauty inveft 

 its ideal perfonages, cannot be too highly 

 appreciated, and we might as well difdain 

 the fun for often dazzling us with excefs 

 of fplendor, as to fuffer the occafional re- 

 dundance of ornament in this extraordinary 

 work, to make us cold and infenfible to it's 

 original, bold, and, in their clafs, peerlefs 

 excellences, 



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