marked, but marked to strengthen, rather than diminish, the interest we take in the man; thus the deformity of Richard will add to his terror, and the enormous stride of Edward to his dignity. If my limits permitted, your own recollection would dispense me from expatiating in examples on this more familiar branch of invention. The history of our own times, and of our own country, has produced a specimen, in the death of a military hero, as excellent as often imitated, which, though respect forbids me to name it, cannot, I trust, be absent from your mind.” Although Mr. Fuseli applies the rules he lays down in this passage to mere unmixt historic painting, I shall beg leave to suggest, that even epic and dramatic subjects must occasionally be circumscribed by historic truth. In another place he says, "We seldom meet with a human performance exclusively made up of epic, dramatic, or pure historic materials." Thus far Mr. Fuseli. To me, history appears to be the generic name, and to admit of as many modifica tions as the human form and features. AN EVENING, &c. THIS is the time when most the mind delights And give itself to Nature........Sweet and mild A gentle shower, now past and hushed, has bathed It is a blessed scene, and I rejoice Mountains, and all the multitud'nous throng As though possessed with moody thoughts, and fed The tall cliff's topmost crag, and therefore bared Of bubbling hill-streams........ To this place I come This hoar stone, Studded with moss, with green and fringed moss, In clear and liquid freshness! So the scene |