APOSTROPHE to the power of Love.-Its intimate connection with generous and focial Senfibility.-Allufion to that beautiful paffage in the beginning of the Book of Genefis, which represents the happiness of Paradise itself incomplete, till Love was fuperadded to its other bleffings. The dreams of future felicity which a lively imagination is apt to cherish, when Hope is animated by refined attachment. This difpofition to combine, in one imaginary scene of refidence, all that is pleafing in our estimate of happiness, compared to the skill of the great artist, who perfonified perfect beauty, in the picture of Venus, by an affemblage of the most beautiful features he could find. -A fummer and winter evening defcribed, as they may be supposed to arise in the mind of one who wishes, with enthusiasm, for the union of friendship and retirement. D Hope and Imagination infeparable agents.-Even in those contemplative moments when our imagination wanders beyond the boundaries of this world, our minds are not unattended with an impreffion, that we fhall fome day have a wider and distinct prospect of the universe, instead of the partial glimpfe we now enjoy. The last and most fublime influence of Hope, is the concluding topic of the Poem. The predominance of a belief in a future ftate over the terrors attendant on disfolution. The baneful influence of that fceptical philofophy which bars us from fuch comforts.-Allufion to the fate of a suicide.-Episode of Conrad and Ellenore. -Conclufion. PART II. IN joyous youth, what foul hath never known Who hath not own'd, with rapture-fmitten frame, 5 The power of grace, the magic of a name? There be, perhaps, who barren hearts avow, Cold as the rocks on Torneo's hoary brow; D |