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object at once of its patronage and of its scorn . Why did Mrs . Barbauld publish her eloquent political pamphlets anonymously ? Why was there a wish that Harriet Martineau should have brought out her ' Illustrations of Political Economy' in such a form as that the public might have mistaken for the work of many men that which was really achieved by one woman ? Why , but because the triumphs of the Macaulays , and Wollstonecrofts ,
and Edgeworths , and Opies , and Baillies ,, and Somervilles , are not yet complete over prejudices which prolong some of the worst associations generated by the oriental and the feudal states of society . Still they must have brought us nearer to the period at which social improvement is destined to receive a new impulse by the bettered education ,, and the greater rationality and independence of womankind . But we must return to our curate , though it be only to part . Let us dream with him a beautiful dream , and pray that it may soon be reality : —
' There blows a blessed air to-day , It seems to fan the heart , And fill it with all fancies gay , And hither and thither its thoughts to sway , Like roses set apart In some bright spot of garden ground , Breathing perfume and gladness round . Beneath some high o ' er-shading tree The moss shall be a bed for me .
And dreams shall be my architects To build a world , all—all my own , Where , free from varying creeds and sects , All mankind , at one throne , On one dread name in love shall call , Through him who died to save us all ! And every sight that meets the eyes Shall lift our vision to the skies , No feud , no fear , no cold , nor dearth ,
One family in all the earth ! That earth how fair ! that life how pleasant ! I ' d make some changes from the present ; And , first and foremost in the list , I'd have no bloated pluralist , No toadying sycophant , to fawn His uphill progress to the Lawn ;
No canting slave , to eat his words At frown of Harlots or of Lords . Nay—for I'd make the change complete—E ' en Curates should have bread to eat , And ometimes have a pound to spend . To aid the poor man or the friend 1 * —p . 35 .
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544 The Village Poor-House .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 544, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/40/
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