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208 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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¦ < Almost a Heroine. B etc y . the Hurs...
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comes it that in Cliristian lands we tMnk in so pagan si way of it , and turn the " whole Let us care look of up it in to fear ballad and -makers reverence , romancers , and say , and l GrOD opera is the -singers great ? maker hand and who
the of romance great harp . He of , Existence from whose with all came its wild man and woman wonderful , —He and , manifold strung chords , impulse and attuned of beauty them of to heroism one another and , — -He craving is the for great Poet love of fairer life . '
perfection Every , nobler type and , style of being , than every that which closes purer like a prison , - house around us , in the dim , daily walk there of life is , is God ' s breath hiher , Grod sweeter ' s
impulse , Grod ' s reminder to the soul that something g , , purer , yet to be attained . thousand " Therefore times , man it must or woman be : when , when the th vision y ideal fades is shattered 3 the rapture —as shattere burns out d a
, turn not away in scepticism and bitterness , saying , ' There is nothing better for tions a of man those than hours that as he should hecies eat and and fore drink -shadowings , ' but rather of something cherish the real revela and - prop
that possible laug , yet hs to at be romance attained is in an the app manhood le of the of immortalit Devil ' s own y . handing The scoffing from spirit the
bitter tree of knowledge ;—it opens the eyes only to see eternal nakedness . worshi " If ever and you belief have in had some a romantic hero of , uncalculating soulif ' ever friendship have —a boundless so loved your ; you
like that drift all p c - old wood prudence Before , a all river selfish flooded worldl with y new considerations rain from heaven , have gone so that down , even forgot yourself , and were ready to cast- your whole being , into you the and all for
chasm of existence , as an offering before the ' feet of another , been nothing again Grod made that , , — llej you known if oice you have that to awoke had the one b treasure itterl noblest glimpse y betraye it capability of as heaven the d and hi of . hest deceived your The honor door eternal , still of now inheritance g shut ive being thanks will open that has to
you ; , gyour , and ever " if B you y we such could use experiences them so feel wisel ,- — are that our we so divine taug will ht a the guest ever pathos after ever , possessed be the anointed sacredness your to soul see of . what life ; eyes
walk poems of , what life , ' romances written not , what y with , sublime ink town , but has tragedies in matter fleshly lie in tables around it for of the us heart in smiles the . ' dail The y
tears dullest more street intense of the excitement most prosaic than ever were written in more story or sung , more in poem , ; the reality is thereof , which the romancer is the second-hand
recorder . " , Many other passages stand marked for extract , but we have already
exceeded our limits . It is a book to make one think and feel—a book to buy—for its rare qualities of lofty thought and purpose ,
united to dramatic power and interest , such as the world knows already in " Uncle Tom . " Can we say more to make our readers
become readers also of " The Minister _' s Wooing ?"
208 Notices Of Books.
208 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
¦ < Almost A Heroine. B Etc Y . The Hurs...
¦ _< Almost a Heroine . B etc y . the Hurst Author and of " Blackett Counterparts , London , " " . Charles Auchester , _^
The author of these very singular and elnshly clever books , wherein common sense and common rules of grammar are equally set at
defiance , and are held subservient to the whimsical expression of
whimsical ideas , mistaking , we suppose , the loving" license critics and
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 208, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/64/
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