Their eye's blue languish, and their golden hair. Such are the Oriental Eclogues, which we leave with the fame kind of ar xio is pleasure, we feel upon a temporary parting with a be- loved friend. 13 OBSERVATIONS, &c. HE genius of Collins was capable of THE every degree of excellence in lyric poe try, and perfectly qualified for that high province of the mufe. Poffeffed of a native ear for all the varieties of harmony and modulation, fufceptible of the fineft feelings of tenderness and humanity, but, above all, carried away by that high enthufiafm, which gives to imagination its strongest colouring, he was, at once, capable of foothing the ear with the melody of his numbers, of influencing the paffions by the force of his Pathos, and of gratifying the fancy by the luxury of description. |