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    and lias denied , and coarsened —kid who is it that has deadened him ? We are brought back again from our second Ideal to

    unl&M 5 y thoughts—to the thoughts 6 f inen who value the interest taken in the popular Ideal of their characters , as affording the means of imposition , and of men who have caused this by laws and counsels . Pshaw ! I am sick of it !

    You are?—Let us go look at Pictures . Drake is first ; with a globe , as he should be ; in character arid attributes , an epitome of the good and bad ; the bravery , enterprise , and predativeness , united or scattered , of the whole

    tribe . Sir Walter Raleigh looks a quiz crucified : the portrait explains his Euphuistic letters of love and supplication to her decrepid virginity , " the Queen ' s Highnesse . " From the stiffness of an Elizabethan

    courtier , pass on and contrast with it the stanchness of a Puritan lord in the Earl of Warwick ; from him who spread his cloak on the mire , for the footsteps of the strongest Tudor , pass on to the nobleman who in

    Westminster Hall invested Oliver Cromwell with the robe of jiord Protector . The stiffness of the Puritan hath a touch of stateliness ; that of

    Iw ^ gU , the Equivocal , is constraint itself — cramping rig&toy-Picture galleries , like poverty , make a man acquainted

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    with strange bedfellows ; for here are Prince Rupert and Blake met together , who parted at Bristol , when Blake , by a narrow chance , escaped the

    German ' s summary purpose . Clarendon has some English stuff in him , and it shows forth in his character of Blake ; and hardly less so in his enmity to Rupert , which draws from him many lights on Charles's character , otherwise so glossed and darkened—so theatricized and

    canonized . The court of the monarch , during the war , is matter for the poet , who can give the spirit of an age in an hour ' s conference . The

    German soldier and the English lawyer are a fine pair of animals to drive in yoke or tandem ; yet the butcherly Rupert was tired of the war sooner than Charles ( which was the secret of the surrender of Bristol ,

    and not , as Hume hints , precariousness of courage . ) There are Monk and Montague—silence , Cicerone ! we think of Pepys . There is James the Bigotsilence again—we think of the Comte de Grammont . Here we

    come to a Russell , Lord Orford , and we will go no further , for the sequence blends not : the long velvet coat supersedes buff . There are some men one may linger with farther on : there is fienbow ,

    and Cook , and Kempenfelt ; yes , and there is Van iromp , not the least interesting of the lot b y many an Englishman ; but the covered place restrains the spirit of a fine day , who 6 e

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    238 Greenwich—Its Pensioners and its Pictures .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/14/