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62 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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* * 1.—The Angel John In The W House . P...
his extraordinary insight will make many a woman wonder how he learnt
" Whose Her secret fancy ( privilege is of either of the sex bard . " ) ,
What , for instance , put this into his head ? of a wife" She loves with love that cannot tire ;
And Throug when h passionate , ah woe ! duty she love loves flames alone , gher , As .. grass _grozus taller round a stone . "
Here , simply and exquisitely expressed , is the instinct which makes the poor beaten creature in our police-courts beg off the
offender Someti a t any we risk mee . t with wise verses , whose wisdom puts Martin
_JTarquhar Tupper to shame , as ce Her Keep strange most you * whose undrest rs , but matrimonial respect familiar your style smile friend ;
Is and asks honour without end . _*****
Respects with three-fold grace endue . Whose The rig ways ht to forget be familiar that they ; none are two
Perceive the bliss of being one . " Among the finest ages are those -which contain the preludes
to each cantoand as p we turn them over we are puzzled which to choose and which , to omithaving so little space . A reviewer in one
of the Quarterlies says of , Mr . Patmore , that his estimation of women is too non-intellectual for his verse to find much favour in women ' s
eyes . There is some truth in this . Exalting" his Honoria to the position of an angelhe gives her but little reality as a human
being , and , except a , very fair share of English beauty , and the fine breeding of a dean ' s daughter at twenty-two , we can find no
special reason for his idolatry . Her father tells her husband on the wedding morn ,
that" Too Her much worst on point alms is - she deeds ' and t to on spend dress ;"
but this want of judicious economy affords but a vague point after all ! and we that Honoria really had a soul to be saved like
other mortals suppose and that the awful alternatives of existence were possible to her , as to the rest of the world . Nevertheless , we -will
not quarrel with Mr . Patmore on this head . Some poets love to analyse and reproduce great characters ; he has painted an exquisite
p simp icture ly as of such the , passion and we need of love ask as no felt more by from a man the for poet a who good woman can do ,
this Nev so e perfectl rtheless y , . we think , on examining this edition , and remem-
62 Notices Of Books.
62 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/62/
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