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Campbell in his pleasures of Hope hastouched the extreme of our Sensations" Like Angel's visits, few & far between." Can you conceive any thing more sub::duing, more melting, more fraught withthe deep Sublime than that Line? – ButBurns — I confeſs my sense of his Pre-e::minence Miſs H.Heywood — If Scott has a fault,it is the want of Paſsion. — Tender, Elegant,Descriptive – but Tame. — The Man whocannot do justice to the attributes of Womanis my contempt. – Sometimes indeed a flashof feeling seems to irradiate himScott — as inthe Lines we were speaking of. –"Oh! Womanin our hours of Ease". But Burns isalways on fire. – His Soul was the Altarin which lovely Woman sat enshrined,his Spirittruly breathed the immortal Incencewhich is her Due." "I have read severalof Burn'sPoems with great delight, said Charlotte as soon as she had time to speak, but I am not poetic enough to separatea Man'sPoetry entirely from his Cha::racter; – & poor Burns's known Irregu::larities, greatly interrupt my enjoymentof his Lines. — I a have1 difficulty in dependingon the Truth of his Feelings as a Lover.I have not faith in the sincerity of theaffections of a Man of his Description. Hefelt & he wrote & he forgot." "Oh! no

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