...characteristics of his genius as that of the writer most assuredly is, the less that is offered on this subject the better; especially since the public...been generally conceded to the POETRY of Hayley. As a PROSE writer, also, he has been allowed to exhibit a peculiar facility of style, and, at the same time,...

...better; especially since the public opinion, as to the merits and defects of his various coinpositions, both in prose and verse, has been so long and so firmly...been generally conceded to the Poetry of Hayley. As a prose writer also he has been allowed to exhibit a peculiar facility »f style, and at the same time...

...avowal springing from unaffected diffidence alone, — he thus speaks of his writings: 1 It may suffice to say, that an easy flow of versification, great...placed him high in the list of authors; while as an annul ator, especially, it would not perhaps be easy to find any writer, to whom the friends of literature...