stamp, which is certain to include me in the class of profound writers.
The place so offensive for its cloudiness, is,

--The obscureness of her birth
Cannot eclipse the lustre of her eyes,
Which make her all one light.

I must own, I think, there needs no great Oedipus to solve the
difficulty of this passage. Nothing has ever been more common, than for
lovers to compare their mistresses eyes to suns and stars. And what does
Henriquez say more here than this, 'That though his mistress be obscure
by her birth; yet her eyes are so refulgent, they set her above that
disadvantage, and make her all over brightness.' I remember another
rapture in Shakespear, upon a painter's drawing a fine lady's picture,
where the thought seems to me every whit as magnified and dark at the
first glance,

--But her eyes--
How could he see to do them! having done one,
Methinks it should have power to steal both his,
And leave itself unfinished.--

This passage is taken from the Merchant of Venice, which will appear the
more beautiful, the more it is considered.

Another passage which Mr. Pope is pleased to be merry with, is in a
speech of Violante's;

Wax! render up thy trust.--