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not have ojb . eeMb ; ufc <) pos &; T & ftt likd iB & con ^ i hmmpm ^ timp & eA worldly cunning ;; wMch is a weapwi $ pmlittle n * eu > | iiot for great # ; 8 pd like Bacon , be fell S > ¥ at * " u In short , M wantedthe tegheatptext < af all greatness — truth . Raleigih ' s \ poems i eon * -
tain some interesting cravings after that repose and quiet , which great restlessness so often feels , and to which the pofeiicalparf of his nature must -ah ihtet ^ als really have inclined him ; feala ^ writersucoeedsbest
in tibat which includes his entire qualities , and the best production of Ulis lawless and wilful genius is the fine sonnet on the
, . I r IVlethpttgJit I $ aw , the grave where Laura lay : Within that temple , where the vestal flame ; Wa # wont to burn ; and passing by that way To see thai buried dust of living fame . Whose tomb fair Love and fairer Virtue kept . All suddenly I saw the Fairy Queen ; At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept , ; from henceforth those Graces were not seen . For they this Queen attended ; in whose stead 1 Oblivion laid him down on Laura ! s hearse : — Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed , . a - >\ And groans of buried ghosts the heavens , did * perse ; Where Homer ' s spright did tremble all for grief , And curst the access of that celestial thief
Jfiair ^ r IJueeouiofi ihifej ifrMwl Spenser ; ' wliidb ^ anot ; content with admiring *; as its greatoess deserv & d * he violently places at ihe liead ) o { all poems , ancfonit and modern , sweeping Petrarch into oblivion , a * id ^ making Homer himself tremble . It is one
of the noblest spniie ^ B in : the language . Warton justly observes that the allegorical turn of it gives it a particular beauty , as a compliment to Spenser . — Petrarch ' s paragon of fame and chastity , it is to l } e observed ,, is displaced for Queen Elizabeth ; who is implied in the character of the ' Fairy Queen . '
We have marked some of these lines in Italics ; but indeed the whole might have been iso marked . We must get on however at ja quicker rate with the rest of , our accomplished statesmen , lotherwise we shftll not have
iroom for them . Sir ^ Hdnt ^ Wotton , James the First ' s ^ m-Ibassador to Venice , ^ fte ^ wa 1 r 3 ^ IProvost of Eton College ^ jp 0 nUy : limited the two extren * e $ -tifyMi
taste for business and retirement , which Sir Walter ' s less tender nature could only combine in / ancy . fi ^ e was author oifj t | iefainpu ^( definition of an honest
a ^ pa & sadpi : ^(^ A n man sent to lie abroad for the good < tf liis mmxf' % & nd of the no Wrf ^ e ' ^^ K Vliich he dekftkd " t 6 ' " Wmt on his tomb-]< : } ) » T ' " : i ^ 4 n . ,, ; 2 iyi . ^ .. 6 tone , xticjacet nujus sententia ^ & p . Heor ^ lies the first author 6 £ this sfentencey ! f ^ The itch of
418 Imimmtim V ^ ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 412, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/44/
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