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mend to his perusal a more compendious work on the same subject by a dignitary of our own Church , who was regarded by his Cambridge friends as viewing with no unfavourable eye some of the tenets of Calvinism . A more argumentative and impartial discussion he will not often meet with than that which is contained in the admirable " Essay on Human Liberty" by Dr . Isaac Milner , the late Dean of Carlisle .
Without adverting to Materialism , a subject on which our knowledge amounts to little that can be deemed satisfactory , I am at a loss to perceive what essential support is afforded by the doctrines of necessity and universal restitution to the system of the Humanitarians ; and if I mistake not , a considerable proportion of the Unitarians , more especially in America , openly avow their disapprobation of those particular opinions . For my own part , however vehemently the proofs on which the Necessitarian
doctrine is supported have been assailed , I have never yet seen them seriously invalidated and much less satisfactorily confuted ; and with respect to the second of those doctrines , the ultimate felicity of all who have worn the human form , I consider it as absolutely essential to the vindication of the Divine justice and mercy . Without it the face of nature would be enveloped in darkness and gloom , and the efficacy of the Saviour ' s death , with all its
boasted universality , would be limited to the Calvinistic elect . On the other hand , once establish this sublime truth , and the character of the great Father of mercies is no longer obscured by perplexity and doubt ; harmony and consistency are again restored , and the beauty of the Christian religion instantly expands into a purer flame , and will continue to shine " like the brightness of the firmament , and as the stars for ever and ever . " CLERICUS CANTABRIGIENSIS .
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Rotherham , July 5 , 1827 . Of all the amatory poets , ancient or modern , Moore is decidedly the first . His earliest productions , indeed , were characterised by a voluptuous softness , which ought not to escape the censure of the moralist , and the lay of his youthful muse might well be called " the syren song of luxury . " Breathing the warmth of passion in verse of a seductive sweetness , he was justly denominated by a contemporary bard , the " Young Catullus of his day , As sweet , but as immoral in his lay . ' *
His muse , however , grew more chaste as she grew older , and his verses , consequently , were more pure and refined . That grossness of feeling which had led him to introduce indecent images and immodest expressions , was succeeded by tenderness of sentiment and delicacy of language ; and his imagination , formerly too much the slave of his senses , was gradually emancipated from their debasing thraldom . Hence the colours of his language became less ardent and glowing , and the impure flame , which the licentiousness of passion had cast over his pages , was changed into the vestal light of love . The elegance and sweetness of his later songs ( of which , with few exceptions , both the sentiment and the expression are blameless ) may be
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648 Character of Moore as a Poet .
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ON THE CHARACTER OF MOORE AS A POET AND TRANSLATOR OF POETRY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1827, page 648, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1800/page/16/
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