MEMOIRS OF 



defcribed literally by Southey, in his Joan 

 of Arc, and figuratively by Darwin, will 

 perhaps evince the truth of this obfer- 

 vation. 



The Botanic Queen fays to her Sylphs, 



Arreft Simoon amid his wafle of fand, 

 The poifon'd javlin balanced in his hand ! 

 Fierce on blue ftreams he rides the tainted air, 

 Points his keen eye, and waves his whirling hair j 

 While, as he turns, the undulating foil 

 Rolls it's red waves, and billowy deferts boil. 



This is a fine picture of the Demon ot 

 Peftilence. The fpeed of his approach is 

 marked by the ftrong current of air in 

 which he pafled, and by the term whiffling 

 annexed to his hair. The winds have 

 hitherto, almoft exclufively, poffeffed that 

 term. Here transferred to the lifted hair 

 of the Demon, it increafes the terrific powder 

 of his approach. But let the Simoon be 

 viewed where it's terrible graces are native, 



and 



