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    Which seemed to burn the aiiv unless it fell Either on sapphire or carbuncle huge That rivetted the weight . This car was drawn By twelve jet horses , being four abreast ,

    Pied in their own foam . Within the car Sat Pharaoh , whose bare head was girt around By a crown of iron : and his sable hair As strakey as a mane , fell where it would , And somewhat hid his glossy sun-burnt neck , And carcanet of precious sardonyx .

    " At his side there lay A bunch of poppied corn ; and at his feet A tamed lion , as his footstool , crouched , After him , cased o ' er in plates of gold , I , horsed , did bear an eagle on a shaft From which great Pharoah ' s royal banner stream ed . "

    Then came the cars Of different men of state : some brass , some iron , Some silver , and some steel . After , a train Of officers and horsemen of renown , All habergeon'd and armed to the heel - Precious in shew as demons of the mine . —pp . 190 , 191 *

    With this gorgeous picture our task must end . It has been one of great difficulty , for where fine passages present themselves in nearly every page , it is hard to choose , and , having chosen , hard to stop . The genius displayed throughout the poem cannot be surpassed even by the carelessness , both being of the most perfect order .

    In answer to all we have said , and even to all we have quoted , the anti-dramatic critics of the time , headed by the scythe-armed chariot of the Athenaum , will doubtless ejaculate , with chin elate , " What does all this prove ? The finest extracts can

    no more prove the existence of a drama than a brick can be the specimen of a house . " To which we reply , that the finest bricks will make the finest houses , if properly put together , A line they may consider as a brick , and a scene as a wall ; and it will never be denied that he who can build one wall can

    build four , and that four will make a tower . But this is talking mechanically . All we mean is , that we have quoted passages and scenes evincing such a degree of power as nothing but the total absence of encouragement or countenance could have prevented from being developed to the most complete

    results . The three works of fine genius which constitute the substance of this article were all produced while the authors were under age ; and it is probable that such of them as may be still living will only regard these noble productions aa the amusement of their early years . But still there is no encouragement . '

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    Dramatic Recollections * 1 WH

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 163, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/37/