Our MILTON has given us fuch a natural and ftrong description of ADAM's confternation upon his being made acquainted by Eve with her eating. the forbidden fruit, that it seems impofsible for any human powers to excel him.

On th' other fide, ADAM, foon as he heard
The fatal trespass done by Eve, amaz’d,
Aftonied ftood and blank, while horror chill...
Ran thro' his veins, and all his joints relax'd;
From his flack, hand the garland wreath'd for EVE
Down dropt, and all the faded roses shed:
Speechless he stood and pale

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Dr YOUNG, in his Paraphrafe on Part of the Book of Job, thus describes the peacock ::

How rich the peacock! what bright glories run
From plume to plume, and vary in the fun!
He proudly spreads them to the golden ray,
Gives all his colours, and adorns the day;
With conscious ftate the spacious round difplays,
And flowly moves amid the waving blaze.

Dr WATTS has thus enlarged these lines into a defcription, I had almost faid, beyond all praise,

View next the peacock. What bright glories run From plume to plume, and vary in the fun!

Omnia fanda, nefanda malo permista furore
Juftificam nobis mentem avertere Deorum.
Quare nec tales dignantur visere cœtus,
Nec fe contingi patiuntur lumine claro.

Proudly

Paradife Loft, book ix. line 888.

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Proudly he boasts them to the heav'nly ray,
Gives all his colours, and adorns the day.
Was it thy pencil, Joв, divinely bold,
Dreft his rich form in azure, green, and gold;
Thine hand his head with ftarry radiance crown'd,
And spread his fweepy train? His train difdains they
ground,

And kindles living lamps thro' all the fpacious round.
Mark with what confcious state the bird displays

His native gems, and 'midft the waving blaze
On the flow ftep of majefty he moves,

Afferts his honours, and demands his loves

The next inftance of the Hypotypofis, with which I shall present my Reader, is that of Dr THOMAS BURNET, in his Theory of the Earth, upon the final conflagration. "When this ad"mirable Author," fays the Spectator +," has re« viewed all that has paft, or is to come, which «relates to the habitable world, and run through "the whole fate of it, how could a guardian "angel, that had attended it through all its "courfes or changes, fpeak more emphatically " at the end of his charge, than does our Author, when he makes as it were a funeral ora❝tion over this globe, looking to the place: " where it once ftood.".

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"Let us only, if you pleafe, to take leave of this fubject, reflect upon this occasion on “the vanity and transient glory of this habita

WATTS's Works, Quarto edition, vol. iv. p. 610.

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ble world: how by the force of one element "breaking loofe upon the reft, all the varieties "of nature, all the works of art, all the la"bours of men, are reduced to nothing. All "that we admired and adored before as great "and magnificent, is obliterated or vanished; and another form and face of things, plain,

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simple, and every where the fame, over.. fpreads the whole earth. Where are now the great empires of the world, and their great imperial cities? their pillars, trophies, and "monuments of glory? Shew me where they

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ftood, read the infcription, tell me the vic "tor's name. What remains, what impres❝sions, what difference or diftinction, do you fee in this mass of fire? Rome itself, eter"nal Rome, the great city, the empress of the

world, whofe domination or fuperftition, an"cient and modern, make a great part of the history of this earth, what is become of her · now? She laid her foundations deep, and her "palaces were strong and fumptuous. She glo

rified herself as a queen, and faid in her heart, I "fit a queen, and shall see no forrow; but her "hour is come, fhe is wiped away from the "face of the earth, and buried in everlasting "oblivion. But they are not cities only, and "works of mens hands, but the everlasting

hills, the mountains and rocks of the earth, "are melted as wax before the fun, and their place is no where found. Here stood the

Alps, the load of the earth, that covered

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