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Perhaps Dr. Darwin would not have deem- 

 ed them fufficiently adorned, fince all there 

 is to the heart and nothing to the eye. To 

 be coniiftent with the criticifm of this his 

 Interlude, he muft have aflerted their de- 

 ficiency, and thus have proved that, while 

 his imagination was fo richly exuberant ; 

 while fublimity, as well as beauty, attended 

 the commanding march of his Mufe, there 

 was a radical defect in his poetic lyftem, 

 which would for ever have incapacitated 

 him from being a firft-rate Epic or Dra- 

 matic w 7 riter ; but as nature hovered over 

 the cradle of Shakefpear, and gave him her 

 golden keys, to unlock the gates of the 

 Paffions, fo did Imagination over that of 

 Dr. Darwin, and put into his grafp her 

 magic wand, and fpread over his form her 

 every-coloured robe. 



SECOND CANTO. 



Again the Goddefs (hikes the golden lyre, 

 And tunes to wilder notes the warbling wire, 



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