The writing
which appears to be most easy, will be generally found to be least
imitable. The most elegant verses are the most easily retained, they
fasten themselves on the memory, without its making any effort to
preserve them, and we are apt to imagine, that what is remembered with
ease, was written without difficulty.

To conclude; Genius is a rare and precious gem, of which few know the
worth; it is fitter for the cabinet of the connoisseur, than for the
commerce of mankind. Good sense is a bank-bill, convenient for change,
negotiable at all times, and current in all places. It knows the value
of small things, and considers that an aggregate of them makes up the
sum of human affairs. It elevates common concerns into matters of
importance, by performing them in the best manner, and at the most
suitable season. Good sense carries with it the idea of equality, while
Genius is always suspected of a design to impose the burden of
superiority; and respect is paid to it with that reluctance which always
attends other imposts, the lower orders of mankind generally repining
most at demands, by which they are least liable to be affected.

AS it is the character of Genius to penetrate with a lynx's beam into
unfathomable abysses and uncreated worlds, and to see what is _not_,
so it is the property of good sense to distinguish perfectly, and judge
accurately what really _is_. Good sense has not so piercing an eye, but
it has as clear a sight: it does not penetrate so deeply, but as far as
it _does_ see, it discerns distinctly. Good sense is a judicious
mechanic, who can produce beauty and convenience out of suitable means;
but Genius (I speak with reverence of the immeasurable distance) bears
some remote resemblance to the divine architect, who produced perfection
of beauty without any visible materials, _who spake, and it was
created_; who said, _Let it be, and it was_.

[8] THE Author begs leave to offer an apology for introducing this
Essay, which, she fears, may be thought foreign to her purpose. But she
hopes that her earnest desire of exciting a taste for literature in
young ladies, (which encouraged her to hazard the following remarks)
will not OBSTRUCT her general design, even if it does not actually
PROMOTE it.

THE END.

Transcriber's Note:
Two small typos have been corrected.

_Lately published by the same Author_,

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