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    ' If , by the wood-fire ' s blaze , -: / ^ When winter-stars gleam cold , The glorious tales of elder days May proudly yet be told ; J ? orget not then the shepherd race Who made the hearth a holy place !

    • Look on the white Alps round ! If yet the sabbath-bell Comes o'er them with a gladdening sound , : Think on the battle-dell ! For blood first bath'd its flowery sod , That chainless hearts might worship God !'

    We trust we need not point out the tendency of what has been extracted . It is not only good , but of the best . It is poetry speaking through the lips of purity ; it is the voice of the heart holding commune with the soul . Our limits and our time prohibit our doing more , than to make a few remarks on a subject which seems to us to require them . We have frequently heard the compositions of Mrs .

    Hemans disparagingly spoken of , on account of their imputed sameness— They are so like one another ! ' Now this appears to us the quintessence of unjust fastidiousness . What is called mannerism , we take to be one of the strongest evidences of selfdependent power . The productions of any mind , in as far as they are original , must bear the stamp of that particular mind , and , by

    that community of character , resemble each other . Look at any two pictures of Claude or of Gaspar ; compare any two plays of Shakspeare , or cantos of Spenser , —do they not bear the marks of their common paternity , and , in consequence , a strong character of mutual resemblance ? This would be mannerism in others ; but it is not mannerism in them . Let us be just ;—for this is mere injustice . A writer , who draws his resources from himself , must ,

    of necessity , impress a common character upon his writings . Mrs . Hemans has written much from herself ; and , by so doing , has incurred a charge in which she may justly glory . We have seen and known many imbecile imitators , who conceived that they evinced the greater originality of genius , in proportion as their productions differed the more from each other . We do not buy their works , and let us not borrow their language . Felicia Hemans is not a mannerist , because she writes from her own observations and feelings . JLet not that be a charge against the gifted living , which is a beauty and a power in the glorious dead .

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    $ 34 . On the Connexion between Poetry and Religion .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 824, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/32/