243 MEMOIRS OF 



On the Poet's difmiflal of the Nereid, 

 the death of Mrs. French of Derby, is 

 introduced as a fubjecl: of forrow to the 

 Water- Nymphs of its riv^er. This picture 

 of Milcena is very lovely, ftraying with her 

 infants on the banks of the Derwent, and 

 pondering, with fcientific eye, the infefls 

 and plants on the fhores of that flream. 

 There is a tender ftrain of morality in this 

 pafTage ; but the annexed epitaph on Mrs. 

 French, however beautiful as poetry, is by 

 no means fit for it's originally purpofed 

 fituation, a tombftone in the great church 

 at Derby. The author of thefe memoirs 

 is ignorant whether, or not, it is there in- 

 fcribed. " Clouds of filver, and Beauty 

 " pleading for her hufband's errors at the 

 " throne of God/' may form a very poeti- 

 cal, but it is a very heathenim refurre&ion. 



The mention of Brindley, the Father of 



commercial Canals, has propriety as well 



as happinefs. Similitude for their courfe, 



I to 



