Thomas Park, "On Reading the Poems of Hurdis, after a Perusal of Sir Joshua Reynolds's Academic Discourse on Gainsborough" Poetical Register for 1810-11 (1814) 168.
Much of thy semblance, COWPER, do we trace, Much of thy tender and attractive air, In moral Hurdis, though with equal grace He thy poetic mantle might not wear. Of GAINSBOROUGH thus — whose pencil lent a charm That vies with nature in her rustic state— Dupont preserv'd a glow; and Hoppner, warm With love for REYNOLDS, gave his tints a date Beyond their own recording. — Now the prey All, all, of death! — the pupils, like their peers, Set in dim night: and though but halos they Of orbs that still may shine for numerous years, Yet was their lustre such, it leaves a sigh That they are like to fade from thankless memory.