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looking woman . What delights us is to See a plentiful sprinkle of old poetry , little Elzevir classics , Ariostos full of loving comment , and a woman
fetting gradually better and etter dressed , her afternoonribbons matching with her pleasant face , and a chubby urchin in her arms .
One of the many curious things about bookstalls and other cheap shops of the kind , which we shall have to notice in the course of these articles , is the appearance , in sudden flocks , of certain copies of the same old book . If we dealt in
inferior providences like a Pagan , we might be tempted to think that the God of Books ( " Liber Pater" ) had thought fit to make that special disbursement for some good existing
reason ; an old poet , to counteract too much prose ; or something gay , as a hint against something too serious . So , however , it is ; and this is partly what has made us begin with the author before us ,
Randolph ; the duodecimo edition of whose poems and plays we have repeatedly seen of late on the stalls , and as it would appear , all at once ; for we do not recollect to have met
with him a good while , certainly not in this fashion , —in the lump . We do not tie ourselves down , in these Retrospective Reviews , to any formal notice of author , or book , or subject .
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We have taken the title for its popularity , and out of respect to the excellent work which gave it credit , and the price of which we are glad to see rising every day . * All that we shall think ourselves restricted to , is the notice of literature not imt * mediately of the day ; and within this pale we shall allow ourselves great liberties , and take up book or subject , or piece of either , just as it suits
our humour . Of the author before us , for instance , after giving a brief character of him , we propose to say little except of one passage , which we are not aware of any one ' s having yet laid entire before the readers of extracts . It is not
given , nor , if our memory be correct , noticed in the general account of his writings in the volumes of our larger precursor , after whom we have taken . the freedom of christening ourselves . Nor does Charles
Lamb say anything of it , or indeed of the author , either in his Dramatic Specimens , or in those of the Garrick Plays ; a circumstance which surprises
us . Randolph was a careless , good-natured , scholarly wit af the time of Ben Jonson , with a vein of real poetry , who
chiefly wrote dramas , and died young . He was a boon companion ; and had just strength of genius enough to adorn that character , and get loved , but not sufficient to devote himself
• It is tobehadin the second-hand shops for between four and six pounds , accord ing to the binding , and to its inclusion or otherwise of the brief New Series ; and is worth many times the money , for the elegance and gutto of Its oonunto .
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Retrospective Review . 211
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/67/
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