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coming a profeffed poet. Abforbed in the 

 refolve of bringing the couplet-meafure to 

 a degree of fonorous perfection, which 

 fhould tranfcend the numbers of Dryden 

 and Pope, he fought to confine poetic ex- 

 cellence exclufively to that ftyle. 



" Defiring much the letter'd world might own 

 * The countlefs forms of beauty only one." 



From the time at which Dr. Darwin 

 left Lichfield to refide at Derby, on the 

 irrefiftible injunction of Love, the author 

 of thefe memoirs will not attempt to trace 

 more than the outline of his deftiny, not 

 poffeffing the means of giving it's interior 

 parts with fufficient precifion. 



The pen which on thefe leaves has pur- 

 fued him through his afcending day to it's 

 meridian, may yet remark that Dr. Dar- 

 win's reputation as a poet firft emanated 

 from Derby, though his delphic inspirations 

 commenced at Lichfield ; that as a phy- 

 fician his renown ftill increafed as time 

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