text:  How many subjects of critical comparison in this view hitherto nearly untouched upon has the literature of Europe and even of this age afforded! AEschylus Shakspeare and Schiller--Euripides Alfieri and Corneille--Sophocles Metastasio and Racine--Pindar Horace and Gray--Ovid Ariosto and Wieland--Lucretius Darwin and Campbell--Demosthenes Cicero and Burke--Thucydides Tacitus and Gibbon--Thomson Cowper and Claude Lorraine: such are a few which suggest themselves at first sight to every one who reflects on the rich retrospect of departed genius