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and no attempt made to heighten them by 



allegory. 



JOAN OF ARC, lOtll BOOK. 



Ominous fear 



Seizes the traveller o'er the tracklefs fands, 

 Who marks the dread Simoon acrofs the wafte 

 Sweep it's fwift peflilence. To earth he falls, < 

 Nor dares give utterance to the inward prayer, 

 Deeming the Genius of the defert breathes 

 The purple blaft of Death. 



We are informed by travellers, that to 

 inhale the leaft portion of this mephitic 

 blafl is fatal. They therefore fall on their 

 faces, and hold their breath till it has parfed 

 over them. 



But the Darwinian perfonification of 

 the Tornado fublimely heightens the hor- 

 ror of that watry peft. It fucceeds that of 

 the Simoon; and the Fog, invefted with 

 animality, forms an immediate and ftrik- 

 ing contraft to the preceding monfters. 

 It is drawn with fuch fmgular felicity of 

 s 3 imagi- 



