DR, DARWIN. 



marriage, is very beautiful, the expreffion, 

 " fimpering lips," excepted ; but it was 

 difficult to find variety of terms equally 

 happy where the effect of pleafurable fen- 

 fations on the countenance mufl fo often 

 be defcribed. From thefe aerial nuptials 

 vital fpirit is fuppofed to proceed, which 

 pervades and animates all nature. The 

 loves and marriage of Cupid and Piyche 

 are prefented, poetically pictured from the 

 well-known gems. This life-infufing air 

 is contrafted with the Syroc of Italy, and 

 the Simoon of the African defert. The 

 laft is prefented as a Demon. Univerfal 

 perfonification was the order of the Mufe 

 in this work, not to be infringed ; elfe, 

 when circumftances are in themfelves fub- 

 lime (and moft things terrible in nature 

 become fublime in poetry), they are more 

 likely to be of diminimed than increafed 

 force, by the addition of fabled endow- 

 ment. A comparifon between the Simoon 

 s 3 defcribed 



