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repeated in our day , since these natural phsenomena by no means reach what organic-magnetism has brought to light . ' We were fully aware that animal-magnetism has obtained the assent of a
very large proportion of the men of science in Germany—there being at Jena even a monthly magazine devoted to that art as a branch of medicine—and were not , therefore , much surprised at this sentence in our author . The future Divan . —Under this title the author enumerates
the divisions of the preceding volume . It was written probably after the pieces which actually appear , but it purports to speak of what the collection is to become . We are not aware that there have been any additions since the edition of
1819 now before us . Moganni Nameh—Book of the Poet . — Poems indicating the author ' s personal feelings with reference particularly to the East ; he intimates an intention of adopting the hyperbolical tone of the oriental poets as alone adequate to express the excellent qualities of eminent persons ; he alludes particularly to the masque which he composed for the courtly festival of 1818 . Hafis Nameh—Book of Hafis . —Whether this
class consists of translations , or imitations , we cannot say : as , indeed , no one . unacquainted with oriental literature can give a satisfactory account of this work . Usch Nameh—Book of Love . —Suggests the fitness of symbolic writing , for the uttering of spiritual feelings under a sensual form . Fefkir Nameh—Book of Reflections . —The axiomatic style of these poems renders them very analogous to a large class of our author ' s original and early writings . Rendsch Nameh—Such des Unmuths . —We want a
word that exactly expresses this feeling ; Muth is courage , and un is a negative particle—we know no better word than sadness . Since the days of the preacher who has so amply paraphrased his exclamation ' Vanity of vanities , all is vanity , ' all poets have been ready enough to add their contribution to the JBuch des Unmuths , for all delight in expatiating on the infirmities of our nature . Of great poets , perhaps , none who has done so much ,
has of that much done so little in this spirit as our author ; and in this commentary he declares it to be a spirit arrogant , presumptuous , repulsive , and giving pleasure to no man . He declares , however , that kings and poets are at the head of this offensive and numerous class : he then digresses concerning
modesty , which he hints is generally affectation and indirect flattery to the reader ; he apologises for any arrogance that may be laid to his own charge as an oriental quality , and remarks , with obvious self-satisfaction , that his happy position in society had relieved him from all conflict with authority , and that the world tad acquiesced in the eulogies he had conferred on his natrons .
Hikmet Nameh—Book of Proverbs . —He remarks that western poets find the imitation of this class of oriental poetry peculiarly difficult . Timur Nameh—Book of Timur . —This class should be
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 508, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/4/
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