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The thirteenth essay is ' Of Sculpture in general , and Sepulchral single Stones erect . * This is a curious subject , and the author has treated it , as far as he goes , with much ingenuity and learning . It is illustrated with a neat view of the monument over young Siward , slain by Macbeth . Essay XIV . is a most excellent moral disquisition , ' On Benevolence and Friendship as opposed to Princi ple , ' in which aifefted sensibility is well exposed , and the tendency of sentimental novelists , particularly Marmontel ,
proved to be inimical to sound morality . Fielding ' s and Richardson ' s writings are also judiciously animadverted on , and their imaginary personages shewn to possess ' qualities that win our affection , and steal us , by a soft attraction , to the side of vice , before we . perceive the sli ghtest change in our sentiments or feelings . ' ,. We are next relieved by five Sonnets in blank verse , which we should have been better pleased to have read in rhyme .
Again we enter the labyrinths of antient learning , in a laboured ' Essay on the Aramick Chara & er , ' which may be amusing to the etymologist and profound antiquary , but which does not appear to us calculated to serve any important purpose , or to clear away any literary difficulty . This is followed by ' Reflections on the Composition and Decomposition of the Atmosphere , as influencing meteorological Phainomena . ' This paper is ! evidentlthe production , of a vigorous and penetrating mindlong versed in
y , the study of nature . The doftrine of the solution of water in air , and sub- ' sequent deposition in rain , first started by Dr . Halley , is recommended by its simplicity , its perspicuity , and the ease with which it seems applicable to the most important phenomena . In the eighteenth , and last essays , we have ' Apologies for the Charafters and Conduct of lago and Shylock , ' and both from the same pen . There is great
discernment and ingenuity displayed in these parts ; but we conceive the author to be far more successful in his vindication of the Jew , than in that of lago . Essay XIX . is a Venetian story , very affeetingly told : but though the author professes only to have filled up a meagre outline of this event , as told by Mrs . Piozzi , in her travels , yet the same narrative has been related in a separate form , and in a more ample manner , than is here done .
We are next presented with a beautiful ' Ode to Victory , ' in commemoration of the First of June , and complimentary of the gallant Howe . This is followed b y ' Observations on Hesiod and Homer , and the Shields of Hercules and Achilles , ' which will he perused with exquisite satisfaction by the classical reader . The author has given translations of Hesiod and Homer ' s descriptions , which are exact , but not elegant . Essay XXII . is ' On the Valley of Stonesand the Country near Linton . '
, This description of a surprising curiosity in the northern part of Devonshire , has aft ' oi cUd us great pleasure ; but we only wished that the author had been , more diffuse on the subject , as he hath not told us half its wonders . We h ; , ve visited the same spot , and can venture to say , that a more romantic one is not to be found in the kingdom . The piflure here given is perfectly just as far as it goes . ' Advancing into the valley , tlie more was seen of objects to admire : the rocky eminences impressed a reverential kind of awe ,
their sloping sides often terminating in headlong precipices . I marked the variety of their stupendous , rugged forms , and the many fragments , which , sbiveied from them through a succession of ages , had roiled into the narrow phin . Surrounded b y them on all sides , except towards the sea , at the bottom of the valley ( i ' or the entrance was now concealed by the curvature of ihe path ) I seemed as if secluded from society by impassable barriers . Silence
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Or New Publications.
The thirteenth essay is ' Of Sculpture in general , and Sepulchral single Stones erect . * This is a curious subject , and the author has treated it , as far as he goes , with much ingenuity and learning . It is illustrated with a neat view of the monument over young Siward , slain by Macbeth . Essay XIV . is a most excellent moral disquisition , ' On Benevolence and Friendship as opposed to Princi ple , ' in which aifefted sensibility is well exposed , and the tendency of sentimental novelists , particularly Marmontel ,
proved to be inimical to sound morality . Fielding ' s and Richardson ' s writings are also judiciously animadverted on , and their imaginary personages shewn to possess ' qualities that win our affection , and steal us , by a soft attraction , to the side of vice , before we . perceive the sli ghtest change in our sentiments or feelings . ' ,. We are next relieved by five Sonnets in blank verse , which we should have been better pleased to have read in rhyme .
Again we enter the labyrinths of antient learning , in a laboured ' Essay on the Aramick Chara & er , ' which may be amusing to the etymologist and profound antiquary , but which does not appear to us calculated to serve any important purpose , or to clear away any literary difficulty . This is followed by ' Reflections on the Composition and Decomposition of the Atmosphere , as influencing meteorological Phainomena . ' This paper is ! evidentlthe production , of a vigorous and penetrating mindlong versed in
y , the study of nature . The doftrine of the solution of water in air , and sub- ' sequent deposition in rain , first started by Dr . Halley , is recommended by its simplicity , its perspicuity , and the ease with which it seems applicable to the most important phenomena . In the eighteenth , and last essays , we have ' Apologies for the Charafters and Conduct of lago and Shylock , ' and both from the same pen . There is great
discernment and ingenuity displayed in these parts ; but we conceive the author to be far more successful in his vindication of the Jew , than in that of lago . Essay XIX . is a Venetian story , very affeetingly told : but though the author professes only to have filled up a meagre outline of this event , as told by Mrs . Piozzi , in her travels , yet the same narrative has been related in a separate form , and in a more ample manner , than is here done .
We are next presented with a beautiful ' Ode to Victory , ' in commemoration of the First of June , and complimentary of the gallant Howe . This is followed b y ' Observations on Hesiod and Homer , and the Shields of Hercules and Achilles , ' which will he perused with exquisite satisfaction by the classical reader . The author has given translations of Hesiod and Homer ' s descriptions , which are exact , but not elegant . Essay XXII . is ' On the Valley of Stonesand the Country near Linton . '
, This description of a surprising curiosity in the northern part of Devonshire , has aft ' oi cUd us great pleasure ; but we only wished that the author had been , more diffuse on the subject , as he hath not told us half its wonders . We h ; , ve visited the same spot , and can venture to say , that a more romantic one is not to be found in the kingdom . The piflure here given is perfectly just as far as it goes . ' Advancing into the valley , tlie more was seen of objects to admire : the rocky eminences impressed a reverential kind of awe ,
their sloping sides often terminating in headlong precipices . I marked the variety of their stupendous , rugged forms , and the many fragments , which , sbiveied from them through a succession of ages , had roiled into the narrow phin . Surrounded b y them on all sides , except towards the sea , at the bottom of the valley ( i ' or the entrance was now concealed by the curvature of ihe path ) I seemed as if secluded from society by impassable barriers . Silence