The merit of the latter is, perhaps, rather oratorical than poetical; nor can I recollect anything in the great Athenian speeches which equals it in force of invective and bitterness of sarcasm.

I have heard the most eloquent statesman of the age remark that, next to Demosthenes, Dante is the writer who ought to be most attentively studied by every man who desires to attain oratorical eminence.
But it is time to close this feeble and rambling critique.

I cannot refrain, however, from saying a few words upon the translations of the Divine Comedy.

Boyd's is as tedious and languid as the original is rapid and forcible.

The strange measure which he has chosen, and, for aught I know, invented, is most unfit for such a work.