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grandeur. They rife in climax till the 

 final overwhelming is thus brought to the 

 fhuddering imagination of the reader. 



awhile the living hill 



Heav'd with con vul five throes, and all was ftill ! 



language has nothing of more genuine 

 fublimity. 



Turning from this dread tragedy, the 

 Botanic Queen aflumes a livelier ftrain, 

 and compares her little minifters to the 

 planets in an orrery. That beautiful ma- 

 chine is defcribed with it's fairy-mimicry 

 of the ftellar evolutions. She exhorts her 

 nymphs to the practice of feveral benevo- 

 lent operations, guarding againft the mif- 

 chiefs of elementary excefs. Hannibal's 

 renowned march over the Alps, againft 

 tyrannic Rome, and the fuppofed means 

 by which Ke facilitated his progrefs, are 

 held up to their imitation. To this fuc- 

 ceeds an exhortation to feed the embryons, 



and 



