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coinage. Unambitious, the word in com- 

 mon ufe for that meaning, is comparatively 

 hard and cumbrous in verfe. 



This citation conftitutes far the fublim- 

 eft eulogy by which Poetry has immortal- 

 ized the matchlefs Howard, Mr. Hayley's 

 noble Ode alone excepted. That was the 

 earlieft tribute to his high worth, and it is 

 admirable in a degree which only Darwin 

 has equalled, and which perhaps no Poet 

 can excel. 



The Gnomes now fufpend the again 

 iilent lyre on the ftrine of Hygeia ; the 

 Sylphs flacken the firings, and catch the 

 rain-drops on their fhadowy pinions, while 

 a Naiad prepares the tea-urn. The lad 

 Canto clofed with a Ihower. That it 

 ihould rain alfo in the termination of this, 

 is a famenefs which furprifes us from an 

 imagination fo various. Then furclj there 

 is too flrong a contrail between the folernn 

 and dignified praife of Howard, imrnedi- 

 y 4 ately 





