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Rh if they had aimed at any thing hort of Epic honours. At that moment all their charm vanihed. Intead of the turbulent temper, coare appetites, low cunning, unretrained ferociounes, and unrelenting vengeance, relieved by thoe magnanimous atchievements, age reflections, and pirit-tirring entiments, which, like tranient gleams ucceeded by udden qualls, compoe the unettled weather of a avage mind, an endles proceion of unditinguihable automatons is marched in the ame low olemn pace, acros the unchanging cene. The kingly Fingal and his grenadiers decline from their tate as little as the archangel Raphael: their getures, actions, and thoughts, are as tiff and montrous as the tyle in which they are decribed; their paions are too dignified for ympathy; national vanity itelf has not been able to endure the tdium produced by uch uniform olemnity; and however our indignation may be roued by the alarm of an impoture, to have digraced a ubject capable of affecting the fancy o agreeably may jutly be conidered as a much more heinous literary crime, by readers at once enible of its power, and of the unpleaing effect of the necromancer Macpheron’s dienchanting wand.—

Faith, there eems to be omething new in this idea. I’ll e’en ak the bet novelit in my pay, whether he cannot contrive to new-model Oian, and adapt him to the mot vulgar capacity. But I do not remember any uch over-charged imagery and fatiguing pomp in my Tales. In the Legends of Number-Nip, the author’s mue ports like a child: he takes her pleaure in Rh