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Sets my flesh tingling ; and all o ' er my skin Spreads the chill , clammy , heavy dew of death !•* - What at the sight of the huge living mass Of human faces all uptura'd , he felt ; How he did freeze . At the heat of the sun , with the thought of the grave ! How life Did stare on him from every thing around him . Fields , houses , walls , stones—yea , the grisly frame He stood on , his last footing place in the world / And he alone a spectacle of death /" Act 3 , Scene 1 , p . 48 .
All this is equally true and terrific , and is expressed with the consummate force of the old dramatists . A few of such passages are well nigh enough to make a critic forget his office and his duty , and mistake a part for the whole ; at all events they are quite sufficient to redeem many a page of poor stuff written to meet an emergency , and to please the players .
While public writers all agree in the degeneracy of dramatic writers , it is as well that we should just place a few unknown men beside the popularity enjoyed by such concocters and translators of nonsense as Messrs Peake , Poole , Planche , Bunn , and Fitzball ! We shall next month have to speak of Mr Beddoes , the
author of the * Bride ' s Tragedy / and of certain other modern dramatic works , scarcely known , which contain such proofs of the finest dramatic poetry as may convince our readers tha ; t nothing but the want of encouragement has prevented their authors from prosecuting such studies , and giving a high order of Dramatic Literature to the present time . R . H . H .
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Being a Synopsis ( b y permission ) of an article on the subject , which appeared in No . VII of the * London and Westminster Review . '
Among the various important questions which must shortly eq ^ age the attention of the Legislature , there are not any Which involve more important interests than those of the reform of the medical education and practice ; nor any of more general concern . All are subject to physical disease , and all are likely sooner or later to be forqed to appl y for aid to the science of medicine . It may be truly said that the power of an able and iktlful physician to bring comfort in some of the severest
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fd Reform in the Medical
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REFORM IN THE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/29/
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