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    solid j but $ hat 4 i- / is surprising that \ the * hints they M&t < k ire not seized by writersof t squaMiterary andsuperior ^ hSto ^ pl 1 ic » l Jp 0 W € pe . But enough . Mr . Moore had no such object in view ; nor Was it to be expected that he should : but more might have beeti anticipated than is to be found in his Tale . r

    The greater part of the volume is made up of description : very beautiful description certainly , and so characteristic of Mr . Moore , tHat a sentence picked out from any part of the book would declare its author . In Persia , $ gypt , or the Emerald Isle , or eTen in the literary and legislative society-of our metropolis , Mr . Moore is the same . Once having met him , there is no mistaking him for ever after . Accordingly , in his detail of the loves of an Epicurean on the banks of the Nile , are to be found the same peculiarities which equally characterize his descriptions of Sheridan ' s pursuit of Miss

    Lmley , and of his influence over the British House of Commons : the same smoothness of style , the same abundance of imagery , occasionally far-fetched , but generally felicitous ; the mantle of embroidery thrown over every subject , lofty or mean , grand or trivial , and , therefore , sometimes constituting a , decoration , and sometimes a deformity . When he bears the reader on through scenes of Oriental luxury and beauty , his studied elegance of style is appropriate , and our minds are prepared to relish such descriptions as the following :

    " While I indulged in these dreams , the sun , half sunk beneath $ * e horizon ^ was taking , calmly and gloriously , his leave of the Pyramids ,-r- ? is t * $ Jjad done , evening after evening , for ages , till they had become famuia ^ to him ia the earth itself . On the side turned to his ray they now presentedia " 'Wbiif of dazzling Whiteness ; while , on the other , their great shadows ; len ^ ening to the eastward , looked like the first steps of Night , hastening to Envelope the hills of Araby in her shade"No sooner had the last gleam of the sun disappeared ,, than * on every house-top in Memphis , gay , gilded banners were seen waving aloft , to proclaim his setting , —while a full burst of harmony pealed from all the temples along the shores . "—P . 40 ;

    But when we rest in the wilderness , which forms the abode of a Christian father and his disciples , the feelings are prepared for something less trivia ) and far-fetched than such a conceit as this : " The only living thing I saw was a restless swallow , whose wings wereof the hue of the gray sands over which he fluttered . ' Why may not the mind , like this bird , take the colour of the desert , and sympathize in its austerity ,, its freedom , and its calm ?'"—P . 256 . ¦ > >¦

    Small pieces of poetry are dispersed throughout the volume ; some ; . exceedingly pretty , and others far inferior to the generality of Mr * Mood's lighter productions . Two specimens may be extracted ; the one a piefctfe of the light studies of a female disciple of Epicurus , and the other the lityof a spirit in the subterranean regions of Memphis . ¦¦ : »> > \ " As o ' er the lake , in ev ' ning ' s glow , ; , That temple threw its length ' ning shade , Upon the marble steps below , ¦ " ' i There sat a fair Corinthian maid , Gracefully o * er some volume bending *; While , b y Ifcr aide , the youthflil sage Held back her ringlets , 1 ^ , descending , They should o * crahadow all the p * # e ; '' - * P . &

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1827, page 903, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1803/page/47/