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Excerpt from Savillon's Elegies, or Poems
Ilis-a misfortune with many in the very early part of life to abufe nature, by forming too mean an opinion of their own faculties the difiident {trip ling hangs down his head in £hame, and endeavours to evade the quefiion of experience; while the for ward youth, endowed with more confidence, but pofiibly inferior talents, boldly ?rikes into the track of information, and challenges inquiry; he hears the voice'of applaufe thunder in his ears, and carries off the palm of genius, which by natural right, is not unfrequently the property, of the other: the former may be compared to the ba?lful rofe, which, (though of fuperior beauty perhaps, but unconfcious of its blufhing powers) appears to droop beneath the pride of the gaudy tulip, propr up againft the frowning tempeft; and the timid mind, like the tender plant, requires' to be defended againft the north wind; the ?ightefi injury will deprefs the fpirits of fome, though naturally courageous, while others, awake to wrongs, but of lefs delicate feelings, will foar above the threats of malice, and difperfe into air the breath of unmerited calumny: we look up to a great genius with an eye of admiration, but I am not fure if I would wifh to be that man, becaufe I think the per fon of moderate capacity bappiq/i of the two; he {teers his little bark, through a lefs troubled fea, and avoids fplitting upon the rocks of envy.
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