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"it is not often that works of real genius appear. Whenever, therefore, a literary comet visits our hemisphere, it becomes a duty in us to point it out. As a pheneomenon of this sort we regard the history of Vathek." The moral, character portrayal and impressive knowledge of the manners and customs of the East were praised and the "sublime" was once more adduced: "A machinery, not only knew, but wild and sublime, seizes on the mind, and pervades the whole composition." In summary, "the author, and the diversities of writing, appears to display at pleasure the caustick quickness of Voltaire; the easy sportiveness of Ariosto; the sombrous grotesque of Dante; and the terrific greatness of Milton."
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