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affinity. Death itfelf cannot at firft conceal, 

 however it may fhroud the traits of youth, 

 and of what once was lovelinefs ; neither 

 ean the dull iky and nipping wind prevent 

 our perceiving the youth of the year, when 

 April has put forth her frefh grafs and 

 rerdant fprays. 



In the courfe of Dr. Darwin's fecond 

 Interlude, there is fine difcrimination be- 

 tween the tragic and the difguftingly hor- 

 rid; and his cenfiire of the painters for 

 their frequent choice of difagreeable fub- 

 jefts for their pencil, fiich as torture and 

 carnage, is perfectly juft. 



THIRD CANTO. 



From the penfive graces of this exor- 

 dium refult extended ground of cenfure 

 for the undignified fituation of the Mufe 

 at the clofe of the fecond Canto ; /mce her 

 modern Tea-table is here converted into a 

 grafly throne, bedewed with tears, around 



which 



