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    that have appeared in the newspapers . We shall merely offer a few quotations illustrative of what we consider its great beauties , and defects , and the common morality it exemplifies and advocates . Modern poetry contains few passages finer than the following , applied to La Vallidre . — " Some natures take from innocence the lore Experience teaches ; and their delicate leaves , Like the soft plant , shut out all wrong , and shrink From vice by instinct , as the wise from knowledge . " The next is addressed to her by Bragelone . —

    " I think of thee And I am youthful still . The passionate prayer— - The wild idolatry—the purple light Bathing the cold earth from a Hebe ' s urn ; Yea , all the soul ' s divine excess which youth Claims as its own , came back when first I loved thee . " We fancy we recollect something of the above imagery in the old painters . Divinely , however , is the idea expressed . Equally so is the description of loves' devotion amidst desertion . —

    " Though Hope Wanes from the plate , the dial still remains And takes no light from stars . " This next , for its refined delicacy—one of the very few passages in the mouth of King Louis that does not induce utter contempt

    Lauzun . She yields not yet ? Louis . But gives refusal A voice that puts e ' en passion to the blush To own one wish so soft a heart denies it . ' We would not be hypercritical , but coming from Louis ; with whose paltry character throughout the play , such a seiitiment is nowise in keeping ; it seems to become perverted by the utterer , and conveys the idea of a mere refinement in sensuality onhr , in which he indulges because it enhances desire . How different our feeling at Brageloneh expressions of love .

    " This poor fool , This shadow living only on thy light > When thou wert darkened could but choose to die , " The ensuing passages are &lso genuine poetry , and their beauty and truth must be immediately recognized , ' " Grammont . And she —• Ever so waxen to his wayward will- ^ She cannot yet be marble .

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    68 Dramatic lAterature .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 68, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/21/