A young and accomplished lady has discovered, as she fancies, a
resemblance between the description of this night-fight, and that of the
encounter of Tancred and Clorinda in the _Gierusalemme Liberata_. I am
very far from agreeing with my fair critic in this notion, and any of my
readers, who shall turn to the fifty-fourth and subsequent stanzas of
the twelfth canto of the Jerusalem, will have the satisfaction, (not, I
think, of detecting me in a presumptuous and unacknowledged imitation of
Tasso,) but of reading one of the most striking passages of that
splendid poem.