2O6 MEMOIRS Of 



with evanefcent flafhes, the whole horizon, 

 the fea, and the land, is fo grand an idea, 

 that the wheels, the dragons, the ferpents, 

 the mock ftars, and funs, of that ever 

 childifh exhibition, become ludicrous, as 

 fucceeding to a picture of fuch gay fub- 

 limity ; for fublimity is not always confined 

 to fombre obje&s. Proofs that it is not, are 

 found in the Paradife Loft. When Adam 

 obferves to Eve, on the approach of the 

 angel Michael, that the glorious fhape feerns 

 another morning rifen oil mid- noon, the 

 idea is no lefs fublime than it is gay. 



This apprehended injudicioufnefs of the 

 fire- work fimile fuggefts the remark, that 

 a few fuch erratic luxuriances of a pic- 

 turefque fancy, together with the peculiar 

 conftruclion of the Darwinian verfe, and 

 it's lavifh perfonification, enabled an highly 

 ingenious fatirift to burlefque the Loves of 

 the Plants, by the Loves of the Triangles. 

 Eminently fortunate for it's purpofe was 



the 



