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    Woman for lust—the People for the Palace I Dark warnings have gone forth ; along the air Lingers the crash of the first Charles ' s throne I Behold the young , the fair , the haughty king ! The kneeling courtiers , and the flattering pr iests ; Lo ! where the palace rose , behold the

    scaffold—The crowd—the axe—the headsman—and the Victim I Lord of the silver lilies , can ' st thou tell If the same fate await not thy descendant I If some meek son of thine imperial line May make no brother to yon headless spectre ! And when the sage who saddens o ' er the end Tracks back the causes , tremble lest he find The seeds—thy wars , thy pomp , and thy profusion

    Sowed in a heartless court and breadless people , Grew to the tree from which men shaped the scaffold , — And the long glare of thy funereal glories Light unborn monarchs to a ghastly grave ! Beware , proud King ! the Present cries aloud . A prophet to the Future ! Wake I—beware ! [ Exit Bragelon ** Louis . Gone ! Most ill-omened voice and fearful shape ! Scarce seemed it of the earth ; a thing that breathed But to fulfil some dark and dire behest ; To appal us , and to vanish . "

    To a man of Mr Macready ' s qualities of mind and feeling , it must have been a great satisfaction to utter such towering truths in public with due force , which , added to the manner in which they were received , must have been a compensation to him for having had to repeat many a length of classic trash to many a thin and unresponsive house .

    We cannot say we admire the Preface , which has the effect of showing how far the author has not realized his conceptions of the characters . Except La Vallidre , and perhaps Bragelone , they are all mere sketches ; Louis and Lauzun in particular , are very poor sketches , as we think . The Prologue and Epilogue we must dislike for their servility and their petitionary and deprecatory pre-arrangement . Mr Bui wet ' s reputation is beyond this , and were he lower in the scale , we object to any return to the old adulatory style of the time of Dryden .

    Wfe now come to the morality of the piece , —and here we are sorry to find ourselves directly opposed to the principle the author inculcates , according to one of the most cruel errota of the pfesent social philosophy . Far be it from ua td trouble our readers with the old vulgar nonsense about the moral ai » 4 a moral , which , even at the present day , many of the criticfe no gtBLvel y disctiss , though we had hoped it was at letietli generally exploded from all discussion oft works of Art . The tiKMlttfti- ' clency , the broad abstract principles of humatiity ^ constitute

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    The Duchess de la Valliere * $ !?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 71, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/24/