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P. 21. This, and the two following poems, (in which an ingenious attempt is made to draw a comparison between the different beauties of the different features of the face) appear to me to be quite original, both in their design and execution. In the Works of Carew, (Anderson's Edit, of the Brit. Poets, vol. iii. p. 676) are the following pretty verses, entitled

This is true: a cranium may be preserved for ages; and, besides its use in the study of anatomy, both human and comparative, it is capable of affording to a Lavater, or a Gall, a subject of sublime meditation, and of the most profound philosophical discussion. What use Shakspeare has made of a scull in the Gravedigger's scene in Hamlet!