In his exquisite poem on the Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus all these qualities are displayed in their greatest perfection.

How exquisitely does that work arrest and embody the undefined and vague shadows which flit over an imaginative mind.

The cold worldling may not comprehend it; but it will find a response in the bosom of every youthful poet, of every enthusiastic lover, who has seen an Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus by moonlight.

But we were yet to learn that he possessed the comprehension, the judgment, and the fertility of mind indispensable to the epic poet.
"It is difficult to conceive a plot more perfect than that of the 'Wellingtoniad.' It is most faithful to the manners of the age to which it relates.

It preserves exactly all the historical circumstances, and interweaves them most artfully with all the speciosa miracula of supernatural agency." Thus far the learned Professor of Humanity in the university of Tombuctoo.