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    of roads . Poor Charles is out of date and out of place . We would not have the artist ' s labour wasted ; but let the feeble monarch be trotted into

    some place of less question- * able notoriety , and still survive among the monuments of the nation's vicissitudes , like his brother who still lurks

    behind Whitehall . To be sure at present the groupe forms something of a set-off against the ludicrous bit of restless inefficiency in an adjacent cross-way , and stands as a sort of vindication of our

    better taste , though of a Frenchman's better sculpture . The unhappy spiller of the blood of nations , whose infirmities alone claimed a reverence due to human nature , and not to the post from which he was properly though too tardily

    withdrawn , and who , on that very account , can hardly be held responsible for the results of his actions , seems put to do penance in the rain , with his hat in his hand , a perpetuul bore , " on a horse anxious to make a bolt for the stable .

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    The exhibition is ah exposure , not a triumph ; and the more considerate will , -be pleased when it is discontinued ; for it is a melancholy sight . In a space- like Trafalgar square ornaments may be multiplied without confusion , and the fountain and the cross

    might have others added to them from time to time , until the lion that now shows his teeth , without a word to say for himself , over the gate of Northumberland House , creeps down from his exalted position ,

    ashamed of his shabby appearance . The old destructive tendency of the London populace is only to be entirely subdued by making them familiar with works of art , and their conduct at the Museum

    and other places to which they have been more recently admitted , proves them capable of the lesson . There is a glorious opportunity in Trafalgar square to improve the appearance of London and the taste

    of its inhabitants . If it be lost , may blame fall in the right quarter .

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    THE RESIDENCE OF BARBARA Y . AND ANNA MARIA JD . JBF LE 1 QH HUNT . Our fairest dreams are made of truths , Nymphs are sweet women , angels youths , And Eden was an earthly bower ; Not that the heavens are false : oh no ! But that the sweetest thoughts that grow In earth , must have an earthly flower :

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 243, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/19/