Condition, Speech, and Behaviour of the dying Parents, with the Age, Innocence, and Distress of the Children, are set forth in such tender Circumstances, that it is impossible for a
Reader of common Humanity
not to be affected with them. As for the Circumstance of the
Robin-red-breast
, it is indeed a little Poetical Ornament; and to shew
the Genius of the Author
amidst all his Simplicity, it is just the same kind of Fiction which one of the greatest of the
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