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    means as these that a malevolent and ridiculous critic , contrives to make an author seem as ridiculous as himself . The " review " closes with the following erudite and comprehensive anti-climax , constituting the perfection of no-opinion : — " But let us , in justice , add that , without attempting prolonged poetical ornament , Mr Home often exhibits poetical thoughts ; and we might quote a hundred passages , from a line to two lines in length , which would illustrate this feature . Their want of connexion , however , would be felt ; and we must , therefore , rather rest with commending ' Cosmo de' Medici' as—a fatal tragic story relating to the family of the first Grand Duke of Tuscany !" We could not , for obvious reasons , permit any review of this work to appear in the Monthly Repository ; but we did not think it right on that account to suppress the foregoing ' specimen of a review , ' which may act as a saving warning to many " whom it may concern . "

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    England under Seven Administrations . By Albany Fonblanque , Esq . 3 vols . Bentley . 1837 . If the successive dynasties of the social world in the present advanced period of assumed civilization , had been constructed of those elements of wisdom and integrity , from the practical operation of which all rational beings could predicate corresponding

    results ; with what feelings of enlarged pride and philanthropic gladness should we open the record of their noble labours for the benefit of present and future generations . How different are our sensations in opening this work ; how little complimentary to the rulers of our destinies , and to all those Bishops , Priests , and Deacons for whom we are enjoined to offer up " established " prayers—paying heavily besides in hard cash , for the performance of the ceremony ! " Our apprehensions come in crowds / ' and instead of rejoicing over the patriotic deeds of the " Seven Champions of England , we feel ourselves involuntarily confused by very different associations , partaking of the " Seven Chiefs against Thebes / ' the " Seven Temptations" by St Nicholas , and the " Seven Sleepers . " Here , however , we have before us an authentic record of their contests , their temptations , and their vision-haunted slumbers , written in a most lucid and logical style , and rendered both brilliant and cutting by an interpenetrating wit and illustration . Mr Fonblanque ' s sentences often appear as if written in the air with a waving sword , and then transferred to

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    HB 2 Critical Notices *

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    CRITICAL NOTICES .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/62/