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Excerpt from The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature, 1807, Vol. 10
All the compositions contained in these volumes, except se few very short poems, have already at different times ap peered before the public, and undergone the fiery ordeal of criticism. Professor Richardson has now collected all those children of'his fancy whom he considers worthy ofparental protection, and on whose merits he grounds' his claims to the immortality of the poet. He has courted the muse uh. Der as many disguises as ever Jupiter assumed in the pro; scontion of his less chaste amours, but whether or not With the same ultimate success as the heathen god, is now to be decided. At one time he puts on' the' demure methodistic air of an elegiac hard, and weeps, sighs, and whines'in a manner sufficiently deplorable to melt the 'most obdurate heart. Atanother, he brightens up into a spruce and fashi ouehle heauhpowdered, perfumed, and apparelled in a stile ai-g together irresistible, Ere long, 'he starts up in the'form and dress of ashepherd, with a becoming crook over his shoul ders, and puffing away with zeal and delight on the Scotch, bag-pipe, While the prolonged sound of the drone 13 yet humming in our ears, who should rise before us, but 'the' professor wrapped in the sweeping stole, and treading the' lofty buskin in tragedy with a bloody dagger in the one'hand; and a poisoned bowl in the other! The volumes are indeed a. Perfect raree shew. One page is drawn up, and \lo shepherds and their lasses sporting in the vale! Down it falls, and behold an Indian chief with hatchets, scalps, and tomahawks! The eye iszsoon relievedwith the less for-3 ymidable muster of, a volunteer, corps advancing against a. Gear. Rsv. Vol. 10. January, 1807.
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