MEMOIRS OF. 



To the Pythian Laura is compared the 

 diftrefs of a beautiful nymph in flumber^ 

 beneath the influence of the night- mare. 

 It is a poetic picture after Fufeli. The 

 fquab and grinning Fiend, as he fits on the 

 bofbm of the fleeping Maid, and his moon- 

 eyed mare, looking in through the bed- 

 curtains, are pictures of ludicrous horror. 

 They are drawn with rival ftrength by the 

 Poet and Painter ; and are contracted by 

 the lovely form of the agitated ilumberer ; 

 but tliefocciffion of her convulfive appear- 

 ances which the Poet brings to the eye, 

 affords another inftance of the fuperior 

 power of the pen to that of the pencil, 

 when each are directed by the impulfe of 

 true genius. 



The perfonification of the Indian fig- 

 tree is made a vehicle of introduction for 

 the fcenery of Dovedale and Ham, the cave 

 of Thor, the Saxon God, and all the fan- 

 guinary -fublimities of his dru^dical rites. 



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