chiefly from an Effect that will follow the Reading it: a
delightfully-adhering Idea, that clings fast to the Memory; and from which it is
difficult for a Man to disengage his Attention. - If this is a Proof of the
Sublime, there was never Sublimity so lastingly felt, as in PAMELA!
    Not the Charmer's own prattling Idea stuck so close to the Heart of her
Master, as the Incidents of her Story to the Thoughts of a Reader. - The Author
transports, and transforms, with a Power more extensive than Horace requires, in
his POET! -
    Mr. B--, and the Turns of his Passions - and the Softness, yet Strength, of
their amiable Object - after having given us the most masterly Image of Nature,
that ever was painted! take Possession of, and dwell in, the Memory.
    And there, too, broods the kind and the credulous Parson WILLIAMS'S Dove,
(without serpentine Mixture) hatching Pity and Affection, for an Honesty so
sincere, and so silly!
    There too, take their Places All the lower Supports of this beautiful
Fabrick. -
    I am sometimes transform'd into plain Goodman ANDREWS, and sometimes the
good Woman, his Wife.
    As for old Mr. LONGMAN, and JONATHAN, the Butler, they are sure of me both,
in their Turns.
    Now and-then, I am COLBRAND the Swiss: but, as broad as I stride, in that
Character, I can never escape Mrs. JEWKES: who often keeps me awake in the Night
-
    Till the Ghost of Lady DAVERS, drawing open the Curtains, scares the Scarer,
of me, and of PAMELA! -
    And, then, I take Shelter with poor penitent JOHN, and the rest of the Men
and the Maids, of all whom I may say, with compassionate Marcia,
 
                      -- The Youths DIVIDE their Reader.«
 
And this fine Writer adds:
 
    »I am glad I made War, in my last, upon the Notion of altering the Style:
for, having read it twice over since then, (and to Audiences, where the Tears
were applausively eloquent) I could hardly, here and there, find a Place, where
one Word can be chang'd for a better. There are some indeed, where 'twere
possible to leave out, a few, without making a Breach in the Building. But, in
short, the Author has put so bewitching a Mixture together, of the Rais'd with
the Natural, and the Soft with the Strong and the Eloquent - that never