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NEW BOOKS. BRIEFLY NOTICED, BUT AFTER THOROUGH PERUSAL.
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Patient be these tears , Fresh heart-dews , standing on these dear clay-moulds Of souls , made of myself , —made of us both In the half-heavenly time . I quit ye but To meet again , and will revisit soon In many a dream , and many a gentle sigh .
( Spirit looks at the hody ^ fi And was that me ?—that holiow-cheek'd pale thing , Shatter ed with passion * , worn with cares ; now placid With my divine departure . And must love Think of thee painfully ? of stifling boards 'Gainst the free face , and of the irreverent worm ? To dust with thee , poor corpse ! to dust and grass ,
And the glad innocent worm , that does its duty , As thou dost thine in changing . I , thy life , Life of thy life , bird of the bird , ah ha ! Turn my face forth to heav ' n—ah ha I ah ha ! Oh the infinitude and the eternity ! The dimpled air ! the measureless conscious heaven ! The endless possession ! the sweet , mad , fawning planets
Sleeking , like necks , round the beatitudes of the ubiquitous sun-god With bee-music of innumerable organ-thunders , And the travelling crowds this way , like a life-tempest , With rapid angelical faces , two in one , Ah ah ! ah ha ! and the stillness beyond the stars—My Friend ! my Mother I—I mingle through the roar . ( Spirit vanishes . )
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[ Finding it impossible , in the limits of our magazine , to do justice to works of any importance in point of length of criticism , we have made up our minds to compress our remarks into as brief ajnotice of their spirit as it lies
in our power to give ; and in future , therefore , we shall adopt the above head for this department of our paper , the words " Thorough Perusal" being to be understood in their literal sense . ]
The French Revolution . A History . By Thomas Carlyle . 8 vols . 8 vo . Fraser . There is no account of the French Revolution that can be in the
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slightest degree compared with this for intensity of feeling and profoundness of thought . We cannoi help thinking it a pity , for the sake of the popularity of the book , thai Mr Carlyle , who is an original thinker , should have made the style
of it so uncompromisingly German : though the complaints against him of unintelligibiMty on that score are very shallow and ridiculous ; and he should not have called if a " History ; " for it cannot be said
to tell the story to those who are unacquainted with it , so as to enable them to dispense with others : though a reader of as exquisite perception as the writer might gather it . But if a man wishes fa
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/75/
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