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of any enthusiasm for any worthy , any noble , any cause at all ; conducts to no action , leads to no expression of moral interest or approbation any way . The office of wonder is to stimulate the tfiind to attention and inquiry ; it is not a feeling to be dwelt in * The pleasure which it can afford is by its nature brief ; it inust be paltry , it may be dangerous . In the progress of man froin a mere sensitive being , wonder is the first step forward $ and ill this mental condition majiy remain ; others become stationary , after a period of inquiry * in cold inactive convictjbh ; both barriers must be strongly broken by those who would pursue the piuv pose of humanity to elevated sentiment and excellent action . The popular imagination of pur timeis in a lamentable state ; its redemption must be effected by a popular power . How the coarse and demoralizing appetite of common-place hprrojrs , for the murder of the day , for the miserable humour of the police bar and bench is to be < jured , I know not—save and except by the exhibition of truly artistical realizations of ideal villainy and humour , by the power of Shakspeare and all his fellows and followers . Richard III . must cleanse men ' s minds of Greenacre . ( Who wrote the acted Richard III ?) The revelfc of Eastcbeape and the roguery of Gadshill must supersede Worship-street wit , and supplant even the Mdrquis of Waterford . L . D . m
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BY THE AUTHOR OF " MUNDI ET CORDIS CARM 1 NA . I .
TO THE GENTLE PASSIONS . O Spirits redolent of ecstacy I With radiant eye , red lip and tenderest finger , And golden hair in which soft odours linger , And cheek on which the hues of rosetoeds lie ,
And bosom where the mild airs breathe and die . And flush'd symmetric limbs wfye : re warm blood streams Through azure veins thai ; tfpari theih ' M alia ilrefcitfs The mind ' s full ^ pl eh ^ bur ^ li ^ In your entraitcing ' drms of balmy bliss .
And sing to me your son £ is 6 f dalliance kind And make the j ) atise of ^ ach fe ' dfewf kiss ; And bantef prudence sightless , yflm sweet sport t—As the fair wlintons of an Eastern Court With gold dust pelt their amorous master blind .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1837, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1832/page/25/
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