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its sources alone be able to throw an interesting novelty over his productions, and the similies of an epic poem would no longer exhibit a tissue of hereditary and servile imagery.

Few literary men of the present day have written upon more various and contrasted subjects than the Author of Calvary, and it will tend strongly to impress upon the public mind a favorable idea of his genius, when it shall reflect, that in the course of four or five years he has presented it with bold and spirited imitations of Milton and Fielding, two authors who have no point in contact, and that his Calvary and his Henry have the raciness and vigour of originals, and will probably descend to remote ages in conjunction with their prototypes. Should we now advert to his numerous Comedies and Essays, effusions of great and acknowledged merit, it will perhaps not appear too much to affirm, that to no author of the eighteenth century in polite literature are we under greater obligations.

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