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It has been said , that absence strengthens strong feelings , and weakens weak ones : travel has an analogous effect in increasing prejudice , where it already exists , or in enlarging the knowledge of those who are capable of loving truth for itself : in this class , we fear , the author of these volumes cannot yet be placed . She
can see but one side of a question ; and that , unfortunately , is not the fairest or the happiest side . The world might be divided into those whose eye rests first on the good and the beautiful in every object , moral or physical , which can be presented to it ; and with whom to see evil , is to bend their minds to its removal : or , the larger number , those who would hide , rather than eradicate abuse ;
with whom ignorance is , if not bliss , at least content , and whose capacity of admiring stands always on the defensive , while their critical faculties are more readily roused to irritation , than their admiring ones to imitation of any good , national or individual , which they do not themselves possess . But these also , like every
thing else , may do good in their generation . And so we hope Mrs . Trollope's lucubrations may become useful , by calling attention to subjects which cannot be too much canvassed , though we cannot but express a wish that her next performance may be on a subject , which , not calling for the expression of her political antipathies , may allow us unreservedly to admire her power of facile and graceful composition .
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406 Archdeacon Glover and the Bottle Imp .
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( From a Correspondent . ) In the Record Newspaper of April 26 th , there is reference made to a placard which runs thus : — ' Theatre , North Walsham . By desire of Archdeacon and Mrs . Glover , on Tuesday , 10 th of April , 1832 , the grand romantic melo-drama , called The Bottle Imp ,
&c . &c . ' And this said placard has called forth sundry violent animadversions on the conduct of the worthy archdeacon , which aie unjust to himself and injurious in their consequences . We should have passed them by unnoticed , did there not appear in the same paper , a letter on * Theatrical Profanations , * which , however we may differ in opinion with the writer , is evidently the
result of an earnest truthful spirit , anxious to make itself known for the good of society . We do not intend to enter the lists with ttje editor ;—with the mere railer we have nothing to do . A well intentioned arguer , whose wish is to do all in the spirit of charity , has as little chance with such , as a practised fencer with an
intemperate novice . While the one pays due deference to the rules ojf his art , the other rushes madly on , without any temper , save what is in hi * weapon , or any courtesy , when that has failed him . The writer of the letter above alluded to , shows , out of an honest zeal , his indignation at what he considers ' a component part of
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ARCHDEACON GLOVJER AND THE BOTTJLE IMP .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/46/
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