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mute; for with what propriety can that name be applied, for example, to the little ſyrens of the grove, to whom nature has granted the ſtrains of raviſhment, the ſoul of ſong? thoſe charming warblers who pour forth, with a moving melody which human ingenuity vies with in vain, their loves, their anxiety, their woes. In the ardour and delicacy of his amorous expreſſions, can the moſt impaſſioned, the moſt reſpectful lover the gloſſy kind ſurpaſs, as deſcribed
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