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Listen!—there is no sound : but could we hear The murmur of its multitudes , who toil Through their brief hour — the heart might well recoil . But this is ever sounding in his ear Who made it , and who said * Let there be light / And we , the creatures of a mortal hour , 'Mid hosts of worlds , are ever in his sight , Catching , as now , dim glimpses of his
power . The time shall come when all this mighty scene Darkness shall wrap , as it had never been . Oh I Father of all worlds , be thou our guide , And lead us gently on , from youth to
age , Through the dark valley of our pilgrimage ! Enough , if thus—bending to thy high will—We hold our Christian course through good or ill , And to the end , with Faith and Hope abide . "
There are several prose contributions in the Souvenir of distinguished merit , amongst which is pre-eminent " The City of the Demons , by W . Maginn , Esq . " The Plates of this volume are 14 in number . The Frontispiece is by C . Rolls , from a painting of Leslie ' s , " The Duke and Duchess reading Don Quixote : "
it is carefully engraved , and for the size may be pronounced a splendid print . " Juliet after the Masquerade , " from Thomson , by C . Rolls , and " Psyche , " from Wood , by Engleheart , are very fair performances : the latter is a clear , wellengraved plate , but would have been
improved by being a little more finished . We are struck with the beauty of the plate by Goodall , from Linton , " Return of a Victorious Armament to a Greek City ; " it is rich and full of character . But why was the tasteless print subscribed " Medora , " introduced into a work of so much merit as this ? In
" The Declaration" by Romney , from Farrier , there is a want of historic accuracy ; the face of the " maideu" is not sufficiently young : on the whole it is a pretty plate , though the white drapery is rather hard . There is a brilliant engraving by a young man , Humphreys , from a painting by Chalons , ** The Thief Discovered . " Of the " Ruby of the Philippine Isles " we can only say that it
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is a pity that such an engraving from such a picture should have been admitted into the Souvenir . One of the best plates of Romney ' s that we have seen for some time , is his " Stolen Kiss , " from Allan . We have a heavy , dull print , not answering , we should judge , to the
intention of the painter , in " The Conversation , " by Ensom , from Stothard . The last plate , " A Fete Champ&tre , " by Wallis , from Danby , is too gloomy and murky for the scene , and the figures are too few and diminutive : it was uot welljudged to choose a subject which had been so well handled by Stothard .
The Byou now makes its de * but as a candidate for public favour . Its outside dress , compared with the other annuals , is poor ; and there are marks of its having been got up in haste ; but its literary contents form rather a striking ,
though not very full , table , and its graphic illustrations are incomparably fine . Mrs . Hemans is in the Bijou ; so ia the Poet Laureate , but we are not tempted to extract him . Coleridge is here , again and again ; the reader will see him , all himself , in the following stanzas :
" The Two Founts . Stanzas addressed to a Lady on her Recovery , with unblemished Looks , from a severe Attack of Pain ,
By S . T . Coleridge , Esq . 'Twas my last waking thought , How can it be , That thou , sweet friend , such anguish should ' st endure ? When straight from Dreamland came a Dwarf , and he Could tell the cause , forsooth , and knew the cure .
Methought he fronted me with peering look , Fixed on my heart ; and read aloud in game , The loves and griefs therein , as from a book ; And uttered praise like one who wish'd to blame .
In every heart ( quoth he ) aince Adam ' s sin , Two Founts there are , of Suffering and of Cheer , That to let forth , and this to keep within : But she whose aspect I find imaged here ,
Of pleasure only will to all dispense , That Fount alone unlock , by no distress Choked or turu ' d inward ; but still issue thence Unconquer ' d cheer , persistent loveliness ,
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$ 22 Critical Notices .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1827, page 922, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1803/page/66/
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