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376 A CRITICAL DISSERTATION
art and to the delicacy of our author : and
would have been admired in any poet of the
moft refined age. The condud of Croma muft
ftrike every reader as remarkably judicious and
beautiful. We are to be prepared for the death
of Malvina, which is related in the fucceeding
poem. She is therefore introduced in perfon ;
*• ihc has heard a voice in a dream j l"he feels
*' the fluttering of her foul;" and In a mofi:
moving lamentation addreiTtd to her beloved
Ofcar, llie fmgs her own Death Song. Nothing
could be calculated with more art to footh and
comfort her, than the ilorj which Oflian relates.
In the young and brave Fovargormo, another
Ofcar is introduced ; his pralfcs are fung ; and
the happlnefs is fet before her o{ tliofc who die
in their youth, " when their renown is around
*' them ; before the feeble behold them in the
"■ hall, and fmile at their trembling hands."
But no where does Offian's genius appear to
greater advantage, than in Berrathon, which Is
reckoned the concluiion of his fongs, " The
*' laft found of the Voice of Cona."
Quails olor noto pofiturus llttore vitam,
Ingemit, et maeftis mulceps concentibus auras
Fr3pfiigo queritur vcnicnria funcra cantu.
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