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Our extracts must hav& been sufficient to aih ^ the veiy [ pleasant style in which this wdrk is written ; anfl iViqaybjB said with truth that no one can read it and enter into its spirit without being benefited both iri head and heart . The style is at once elegant and familiar , and calculated for popularity , being equally suitable to the homely and the most refined M . .
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- ? A Drama , in Five Acts . By Mrs Butler . r Whebe is the " strong hand" in the AtJietueurn ~ the scythewielder and ante-dramatist ? Does that journal entertain a blower of hot , and a blower of cold , and an intermediate to do the farces and evasions ? Its notice commences with" a faded compliment about the name of Ketnble and the stage , and immortality : contains extracts as the middle substance ,
and ends with the critic declaring his enthusiasm has made him forget his office . " La philosophic est guelque-chose—mats la Dance / " The name of KemBle ought not to have prevented , but rather elicited criticism from the Athenaum , partly- bemuse the family have done so many fine things as subjects for criticism , and partly because that journal has declared wfrt ag # jmt * the possible renovation of dramatic literature . The age promises well , nevertheless . ' ^ , " / iV \
With all the world before them " where to cho Q 9 $ ^ wfe } ttlway £ regret to see dramatists select their subjects anio | & the ^ rtte ^| X and conventional ; and the more ability is Bbo ^ p ^^ t ^^ g " ^^ such subjects , the more sorry we are thatyi tfofeyC hay $ 6 ^ 6 il chosen . Mrs Butler has manj&gfcd hir pi pt with so rmi ^ h ^ talent that we much wish sfie had had a better one . It isj
founded on the collision between an obedience to chivalrous loyalty and , honour—and truth to friendship and love . The former is preferred , and the sacrifice of the latter causes ih , e . tragic result . Such a subject might have been rendered a fyie one , by a forcible realization of the fearful struggle between * nature and convention ; clearly displaying the superiority of nature , and shewing , that the misery is brought about |> y placing the unreal before the true . But Mrs Sutler Ji ^ apt proceeded on this plan . She does not represent Don Carl q * as ever hesitating about obedience to the king's command that Jie should kill his friend Don t ^ edro , who is the brother of Sstr ^ Ha .
his own destined bride . He suffers agQny of mind , but nev&r doubts for an instant the course to be pursued . Neither doei he appear , to the end of the drama , ever to discover the shallow '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1837, page 297, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1831/page/42/
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