Bryant and Street are both, essentially, descriptive poets; and descriptive poetry, even in its happiest manifestation, is _not_ of the highest order. But the distinction between Bryant and Street is very broad. While the former, in reproducing the sensible images of Nature, reproduces the sentiments with which he regards them, the latter gives us the images and nothing beyond. He never forces us to feel what we feel he must have felt. 39. In lauding Beauty, Genius merely evinces a filial affection. To Genius Beauty gives life—reaping often a reward in Immortality. 40. And this is the “American Drama” of ——! Well!—that “Conscience which makes cowards of us all” will permit me to say, in praise of the performance, only that it is not quite so bad as I expected it to be. But then I always expect too much. 41. What we feel to be _Fancy_ will be found fanciful still, whatever be the theme which engages it. No _subject_ exalts it into Imagination. When Moore is termed “a fanciful poet,” the epithet is applied with precision. He _is_. He is fanciful in “Lalla Rookh,” and had he written the “Inferno,” in the “Inferno” he would have contrived to be still fanciful and nothing beyond. 42. When we speak of “a suspicious man,” we may mean either one who suspects, or one to be suspected. Our language needs either the adjective “suspectful,” or the adjective “suspectable.” 43. “To love,” says Spencer, “is “To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To speed, to give, to want, to be undone.” The philosophy, here, might be rendered more profound, by the mere omission of a comma. We all know the _willing_ blindness—the _voluntary_ madness of Love. We express this in thus punctuating the last line: To speed, to give—_to want to be undone_. It is a case, in short, where we gain point by omitting it. 44. Miss Edgeworth seems to have had only an approximate comprehension of “Fashion,” for she says: “If it was the fashion to burn me, and I at the stake, I hardly know ten persons of my acquaintance who would refuse to throw on a faggot.” There are _many_ who, in such a case, would “refuse to throw on a faggot”—for fear of smothering out the fire. 45. I am beginning to think with Horsely—that “the People have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.” 46.