By the same Lady I am enabled to say, in her own words, that Young's unbounded genius appeared to greater advantage in the companion, that even in the author; that the Christian was in him a character still more inspired, more enraptured, more sublime than the poet; and that, in his ordinary conversation,
—letting down the golden chain from high,
He drew his audience upward to the sky.
Notwithstanding Young had said, in his "Conjectures on original Composition," that "blank verse is verse unfallen, uncurst; verse reclaimed, re-inthroned in the true language of the Gods:" notwithstanding he administered consolation to his own grief in this immortal language, Mrs. Boscawen was comforted in rhyme.
While the poet and the Christian were applying this comfort, Young had himself occasion for comfort, in consequence of the sudden death of Richardson, who was printing the former part of the poem. Of Richardson's death he says
When heaven would kindly set us free,
And earth's enchantment end!
It takes the most effectual means,
And robs us of a friend.
