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“119 ~ TRAVELS
fame there, for ought that I could learn, far inferior to what is
due, and will no doubt one day be paid to his merit. His poem
on the death of Thomfon may be confidered as the moft elegant
piece of criticifm, and the moft feeling and tender elegy that was
ever written by one poet on another. Collins, far fuperior to that
jealoufy and envy which tarnifhes the minds of minor poets among
his countrymen, and from which even Pope, that elegant verfifier,
is by no means exempt, felt what he wrote, and fhewed himfelf
at once a good and great man, and a pathetic and fublime poet.
But I ftray from Scandinavia, to which I return. Mr. Torild is
not more diftinguifhed by his poetical compofitions than by his
enthufiaftic admiration of Offian. All kinds of poetry not in
the ftyle of Offian he utterly defpifes. It 1s needlefs after this ob-
fervation to mention that his own poems are very much written
in that ftyle. There is nothing more natural than for a Scandi-
nayian to have a predilection and partiality for Offian: the va-
Jour, the virtues, and the extenfive power and dominion of their
princes being celebrated in the fongs of that poet.
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