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Excerpt from The Remorse: A Tragedy
It was evident in fact, that the latter process must be far more delightful to the mind than the former; as in the one case, how ever we may instructed and improved, we are still conscious of our inferiority; we. Stand as pupils before our master, and advance not a single step beyond the limit which he marks for us. But in the other, it is our master, indeed, who presents us with the key of Paradise, but we ourselves Open the gate, all our wanderings are unconstrained, and we find beauties, and trace likenesses With all the delight of Original composition. It is true, that a closer ana lysis' would shew that inthis apparent freedom we are in fact fol-5 lowing a prescribed direction -but the restraint'which is neither seen nor felt is in fact no restraint.
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