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Mks. Cojststantia Grierson.* In Essex St...
their works . I was led to the following reflections the other day by JBlac having _htvood " my * s notice Magazine attracted from to its a compartment commencement in . a library I thoug filled ht with how
• much which good once read writing had " , how been many put aside clever and thoug forgotten hts , lay . The buried stories there to ,
- be sure have come to light again and now prove the solace of railroad travellersbut the . stories are probably not the most valuable part
of the collection , . Thus thinking , I was prompted to take down a volume at haphazard and look into it . I lighted on a passage that
Interested me much ; but I shall not say what the subject was , because it is one of which the world in generaland the readers of
, this Journal in particular , have heard as much lately as they can well bearand rather moreand are most heartily sick . It is my
, , intention its purport to lest give the this reader passage shoul ; and d turn as I over wish two it to pages be read at , I a suppress time . I
tion will merel assaile y , d preface me to , copy therefore it out , , b put y say a ing new , that beg a inning very feelin strong and secure title tempta , th and at - send it to the editors of the Journal as owng
I should not be found outand should obtain my great , credit for writing so wellbut honor prevailed , and I send it honestly as an extract
from , a ; review of Mrs . Hemans , ' poems , written in 1848 . The writer admires her genius and considers her _" asa fitting
representation of her fair countrywomen , "—her brilliant talents the and great virtues nature and the setting faults off which and showing are characteristic to advantage , of as Eng it were lish- ,
women . —that " Her cheerfulness piety , her easil resignation moved , her by love little of incidents nature and that of sadness home
y , into which reflection almost always settled—all speak of the cul-. tivated woman bred under English skies and in English homes . _& _&
• ss- •• * * < c The cultivation of her mind in its weaknessas well as
_elegance _: , savoured , perhaps , too much of what we are , compelled to call feminine . Alive at all times to _Tbeauty in all its forms , to music ,
to tender and imaginative thought , she seems to have been almost averse to whatever bore the aspect of analysis of feeling , or an
ibeautiful . approach , to but a severe - investi her all gation scientific of truth dissection . Present of it her . with Let the the spare
ilower live , as her companion ; do not rend it to pieces to show its _conformationLet the faith be tender and true to the heartand
. , disturb her not with rude inquiries whether it possess any other _tfruth or notThat too much of melancholy ( at least for her own
. ihapp events iness in her , ) wh life ich but is also traceable from in this her too poems partial , arose and in limited part culti from
-, vation of the mind . ; " The feelings were excited or refinedbut the reasoning powers
, not enough called forth ; no task-work therefore was given to the
active intellect ; and a mind that could not be at rest was left to
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 403, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/43/
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