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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 131
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1. Poems and , Co B ., y Edinburg the Au...
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Notices Of Books. 131
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 131
1. Poems And , Co B ., Y Edinburg The Au...
_1 . Poems and , Co B ., y Edinburg the Author h . of " The Patience of Hope . " Alex . Strahan Bell and Dald
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the supp writers y . or the , readersbut , simply to watch that , the kind of morbid food age . offered The love danger of and singularity accep in these ted does , present tb not e tendency times pander does to to rash not the speculation lie diseases towards of and the the
sceptical it is pro rather fession to , which a kind was , of so morbid especiall introspection y attractive — some none fift the y years less
of self ago motives -comp ; lacent and , meanings because self , and -condemning to an idealization —to a minute and hair sanctification -splitting into utterl
of every passing emotion , till it is exalted y dispropora tionate and seeming importance which ly amiable it is with consolatory and the innocent outer to active form think life of is of moral very realit likel disease y y and to , duty appear truly — ,
outgrown only one in the leaving juvenile subj let us ect hope and , if something the constitution of the be sensitiveness healthy , to be of
conscience , and the , delicacy of percep , tion which form its attraction and its excuse . vehicle for all the
failings Considering we have that noted poetry , it must is Tbe a very confessed suitable that while the certain prose
writers unhealth though of minor y the tone day . in There both aid and are senses abet multitudes , have them kep to in of any t literature books singularl extent appearing , y and clear poets of which yearl even this y ,
from which their do not absence take a of very well pretension hi suited gh place , to real earnest lthe feeling want , , of and yet the careful ,
They form , chime are admirabl in with y the reverent feelings suppy and the noble purpose age . which ( whether to bear fruit or nottime will show , ) is running
, t hroug Now h and and then beneath come the young across lives a volume of the which present has day some .
origiwe of nalit verse y claiming into the special grander note reg , ions and of thoug poetry h not , is rising yet deserving from are the of of valley being this set and emberedThe two volumes before us
class which apart ; they and b both efore rem exhibit going must on . to be consider commended them . , the care and finish the of
If they fail , it is not for want of time and thought on part
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/59/
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