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as much too ornamented, has furely little 

 juftice. Eloquence can only be produced 

 by a ftricl union of ftrength and ornament. 

 The Corinthian pillar is not lefs ftable than 

 the Doric ; not lefs firm on account of it's 

 flowers. Dr. Darwin here feems to wifh 

 that profe mould be precluded by it's 

 plainnefs from Hiing into eloquence. He 

 wifhed to keep profe too plain, and his warm- 

 eil admirers will furely acknowledge that 

 he infifts upon poetry being drefled with 

 too elaborate magnificence. We find him 

 in this Interlude s very ingenious on the fub- 

 jecT: of allegoric figures,, alfo on that of 

 dreams, and in his comparifon of them t@ 

 the reveries which the true Poet excites 

 in his intelligent readers; but he is greatly 

 indeed miftaken when he reprefents tfye 

 art of exciting fuch rapt and abftrafted fen- 

 fations as folely confifting in pi<flurefque 

 writing. Inftrudion, pathos, all the gran- 

 deur and beauty of moral and religious 



fentiment, 



