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xvi minute criticks, and Mr. Hume amongst the rest, have, with much gravity, and discussion, found out, that the finest passages of the most celebrated poets, have nothing in them striking, when divested of their animated expression, and harmony of numbers. This is only discovering to us, that poetry, when turned into prose, ceases to be poetry, and that man consists of a body as well as a soul.