text:  That physiognomy is a very flexible and a varying one; Pushkin (considered only as a _poet_) must be allowed to have attained very high eminence in various walks of his sublime art; his works are very numerous and as diverse in their form as in their spirit; he is sometimes a romantic sometimes a legendary sometimes an epic sometimes a satiric and sometimes a dramatic poet;--in most if not in all of these various lines he has attained the highest eminence as yet recognised by his countrymen; and consequently whatever impression may be made upon our readers by the present essay at a transfusion of his works into the English language will be necessarily a very imperfect one