ABSTRACT
The Author of ‘The Pursuits of Literature has discovered, in his animated Satire a true poetical genius. And ‘a true poet is a public good’. The satire in question, seems to have produced effects, resembling those which distinguished the poetry of Greece and Rome. In composing his Botanic Garden, Dr Darwin was aware, that though imagination refuse to enlist under the banner of science, yet may sometimes be brought forward, not unhappily, under the conduct of imagination. Botany has lately become a fashionable amusement with the ladies. The female advocates of Democracy, though they have had no opportunity of imitating the French ladies, in their atrocious acts of cruelty; have yet assumed a stern serenity in the contemplation of the savage excesses. The designs with which the princess Elizabeth furnished Sir James Bland Burgess, for ‘The Birth and Triumph of Love’, are exquisitely beautiful. The princess Elizabeth, indeed, is eminently accomplished, as well as her royal sisters.
