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purpofe, a fatirical paffage on the beautiful 

 poetry of Mafon ; thus, 



. I, who never pray'd 



For apt alliteration's artful aid. 



But the ridicule intended for the fwect 

 Swan of the Humber, falls equally on 

 the elder claffics of Greece, Rome, and 

 England. 



The firft transformation of this fecond 

 Canto is the Carline Thiftle. We learn, 

 from a note on the paffage, that it's feeds 

 are furnifhed with a plume, by which they 

 are borne through the air. Carlina, in 

 human fhape, is reprefented as fabricating 

 Dasdalion wings for herfelf and offspring, 

 with moft ingeniously defcribed mechanifm, 

 and with happier fuccefs than thofe of the 

 renowned mechanic in ancient fable. 



And now fucceeds, in happy fimilitude, 

 a balloon-voyage, exacT: and accurate to the 

 circumftances of aerial journeying in the 

 firft inftance, and fublime in the imagi- 

 native 



