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these ladies , these fine gilt coaches , and this wonderfully superannuated old coachman , who looks as if he had come out of the century before last
on purpose to vindicate his right of immortal drive , nothing better than an imposing sight , which might as well be spared , and merely u sets idle people
gaping ? " Then it is nothing better , nay , not half so good as the sight which it really resembles , that of Cinderella in the story book ; for that contains a good moral . And lo there is the identical old rat , turned into the coachman . ( We defy any one who knows the story , and saw the poor old gentleman , not to laugh at the likeness . He sat on the enormous . box , diminutive , huddled up ; looking as if bewildered
and bent double ; floating with his chin up in a sea of hammercloth . ) On the other hand , is the spectacle of any solid significance ? and if so , is the solidity to be all on the side of the
principal object in it ? Is it simply to add to her power ? Then , besides being a puerile compliment to those whoadmire it * it is provoking to those who reflect , and perilous to all . But is it meant also in good faith and regard to the people ? Is love to come of it ? and joy , of which this joy is an earnest ? Then , oh then , the whole business takes another aspect , which is yet " another and the
same ; that is to say , including all which is good for the love , good for the power , and plea-
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sant , nay , amusing in the recollection even of the tale in the story-book : for it is wonderful what kindness does for everything , small as well as great ; and how it fuses the
childlike , and the laughing , and the respectful , the playful and the dignified , all in one ; and converts a gaudy spectacle into a thing at once grand and goodnatured , like the sunshine .
As such , we , for one , willingly looked at it with eyes of hope , enjoying , in no unpleasant confusion of ideas , our fairy tale , our belief in the good-will , and our own good-will accordingly ;—our own willing
concession of the power , —with that understanding . There rode our young Queen , like a proper queen of romance , with her radiated diadem ; there we at once smiled at , and felt a reverend concern for the good old coachman out of Ratopolis ;
and somewhere , we know not where , ( but not far off , we trust , in point of time ) was the young Prince , or Lord , whoever he might be , destined to complete the happiness of the lady , and make her , and all the rest of us , " live happy after . "
" A pleasing and boy-like dream ! " will cry many , who yet would be very angry , if we did not put faith in the fine results that are to ensue , provided their own respective recommendations of policy be adopted ! Alas ! we have our fears as
well as hopes j but we have also our '' recommendations * of policy , or at least a very distinct idea of what is requisite
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8 & The Queen .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/10/
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