DR. DARWIN. 2O9 



language lhall exift ; nay, fliouldthat perifh, 

 Tranflation would preferve the Botanic 

 Garden as one of ks gems ; if not in ori- 

 ginal brightnefs, would at leaft retain all 

 that hoft of beauties which do not depend 

 upon the perhaps intransfufable felicities 

 of verbal expreffion. The lavifh magnifi- 

 cence of the imagery in this work, Genius 

 alone, bold, original, creative, and fertile 

 in the extreme, could have produced. 

 It's profufion may cloy the faftidious, it's 

 /pleridor may dazzle the poetically weak 

 of fight ; but ftill it is the refult of that 

 power, which Shakefpear chara&erifes 

 when he fays, 



The Poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy rolling, 



Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, 



And as Imagination bodies forth 



The form of things unknown, the Poet's pen 



Turns them to lhape, and gives to airy nothing 



A local habitation, and a name. 



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