246 MEMOIRS OP 



fex, can be rendered elegant. No author 

 ever had a mind more keenly awakened 

 to grace in all its varieties, or could more 

 exquifitely paint it. 



That perception, and that talent, the, in 

 his clafs of compofition, peerlefs Richardfon 

 poflefled in an equal degree. No profe- 

 writer ever was, or perhaps ever will be, fb 

 great a painter ; and to that power what a 

 conftellation of other endowments contri- 

 buted to immortalize the pages of ClarhTa 

 and Grandifon ! Novels no longer, but 

 Englifli Claffics, tranflated into every Eu- 

 ropean language, and in all foreign countries 

 confidered as fome of the nobleft efforts of 

 Britifh Genius, , 



But the Darwinian Nereid has been left 

 a, little before hey time; other eircum- 

 fiances attend her, too poetic to remain 

 unnoticed. Her fong " thrills the waves ;" 

 and the lhadowy Forms of Night gleam on 

 the margin of the fliore, " with pointed 



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