ex

the loss involved in even a brief period, of, disaster to the

Imperial Navy? Any amount of money. thnely ex perided, in-

As Aspatia's ^ef had been of long continuance, sudden was evidently corrupt, and I there-

fore proposed to Mr. Theobald to read sullen, which b an epithet perfectly proper and ex-

tremely nervous ; but as he could by no means be persuaded to mention the former conjecture,

stile and sentiments of the Scriptures, another very large field would open to us j and this

would help us to the solution of two questions, which tney who have a just taste of the ex -

cellencics of our old English poets naturally ask : 1 . How came the British muse in the very

some little improvement from the models of Greece and Rome, but sprung

chiefly from tneir own moralities, and religious farces; and had a birth ex-

tremely similar to what the Grecian drama originally sprung from ; dif-

with several passages in the writings of St. Paul, m

which he refers to the dramatic poets, citing their ex-

pressions in confirmation of nis own sentiments.

him. The new proprietor associated himself with

Mr. Congreve, and from the joint abilities of sueh ex-

cellent writers great expectations were formed. On the

accomplishments, and the knowledge of the world, to tlie deepest know-

ledge of books, and the most extensive literature. Such characters ex-

clude not good sense in general, but in that part of their characters only

and the poet, like Homer, is eloquent in silence. It is a species of beauty

that shews an intimacy with that father of poetry ^ in whom it occurs ex-

tremely often ^ Milton has an exceeding fine one in the description of