You have agreeably deceiv’d me into a Surprize, which it will be as hard to express, as the Beauties of PAMELA. Though I open’d this powerful little Piece with more Expectation than from common Designs, of like Promise, because it came from _your_ Hands, for my _Daughters_, yet, who could have dreamt, he should find, under the modest Disguise of a _Novel_, all the _Soul_ of Religion, Good-breeding, Discretion, Good-nature, Wit, Fancy, Fine Thought, and Morality?---I have done nothing but read it to others, and hear others again read it, to me, ever since it came into my Hands; and I find I am likely to do nothing else, for I know not how long yet to come: because, if I lay the Book down, it comes after me.----When it has dwelt all Day long upon the Ear, It takes Possession, all Night, of the Fancy.----It has Witchcraft in every Page of it: but it is the Witchcraft of Passion and Meaning. Who is there that will not despise the false, empty _Pomp_ of the Poets, when he observes in this little, unpretending, mild Triumph of _Nature_, the whole Force of Invention and Genius, creating new Powers of Emotion, and transplanting _Ideas_ of _Pleasure_ into that unweeded low Garden the _Heart_, from the dry and sharp _Summit_ of _Reason_? Yet, I confess, there is _One_, in the World, of whom I think with still greater Respect, than of PAMELA: and That is, of the [_del._ 5th] {wonderful} AUTHOR of PAMELA.----Pray, Who is he, Dear Sir? and where, and how, has he been able to hide, hitherto, such an encircling and all-mastering Spirit? He possesses every Quality that ART could have charm’d by: yet, has lent it to, and conceal’d it in, NATURE.----The Comprehensiveness of his Imagination must be truly prodigious!----It has stretch’d out this diminutive mere _Grain_ of _Mustard-seed_, (a poor Girl’s little, innocent, Story) into a Resemblance of That _Heaven_, which the Best of Good Books has compar’d it to.----All the Passions are His, in their most close and abstracted Recesses: and by selecting the most delicate, and yet, at the same time, most powerful, of their Springs, thereby to act, wind, and manage, the Heart, He _moves_ us, every where, with the Force of a TRAGEDY.