318 MEMOIRS Of 



the Moments are imperfonized with too 

 much quaint prettinefs. The whole of 

 this imagery is an imitation, as indeed the 

 Author afterwards acknowledges, of the fol- 

 lowing paffage in Young's Night Thoughts, 



Each Moment has it's fickle, emulous 



Of Time's enormous fey the, whofe ample fweep 



Strikes empires from the root; each Moment plies 



His little weapon in the narrower fphere 



Of fweet domeftic comfort, and cuts do&n 



Our faireft blooms of fublunary blifs. 



The Hours leading their trains around 

 the wrecks their parent had made, and 

 planting amidft them the growth of fci- 

 ence and tafte, is an original and beautiful 

 addition in Dr. Darwin's imitative paflage. 

 The Moments are obnoxious to his own 

 criticifm in the firft Interlude ; they be- 

 come unpleafing from being too diftinftly 

 defcribed, with their kifles and their baby 

 hands. Perhaps the perfonified Moments 

 are not lefs diftinclly pourtrayed in the 



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