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ientiment, are here turned over to the 

 profe writer, as if they were not equally 

 capable of giving fafcinating power to 

 verfe, as well as to oratory. The follow- 

 ing paffages are not piclurefque ; but no 

 pi&ures ever prefented by the rrmfes, are 

 more potent to imprefs, thrill, and capti- 

 vate that mind which is alive to the magic 

 influence of their art : 



Some fay, that, ever 'gainft the feafon comes 

 At which our Savior's birth is celebrated, 

 The bird of dawning fingeth all night long; 

 And then, they fay, no fpirit walks abroad; 

 The nights are wholefome ; then no planets firike, 

 No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm, 

 So hallow'd and fo gracious is the time! 



HAMLET. 



I fled, and cried out Death j 



Hell trembled at the hideous name, and figh'd 

 Through all her caves, and back refounded Death 



MILTON, 



if prayers 



Could alter high decrees, I to heaven's throne 

 Would fpeed before thee, aad be louder heard 



That 



