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points of that nature may be had , we venture to say , in many places ; but right earnest \ love and pleasure are not so commonly to be ffiet with , TJm QZthiopics or ( Ethiopian History of Heliodorus , otherwise called the
Adventures qfTheagenes and Charielea , is a romance written in the decline of the Roman empire by an Asiatic Greek of that name , who boasted to be descended from the sun ( He-} iodorus is sun-given ) and afterwards became Christian
bishop of Tncca in Thessaly . It is said ( but the story is counted apocryphal ) that a sypod , thinking the danger of a love-romance aggravated by this elevation to the mitre ,
required of the author that he should give up either his book or his bishopnck ; and that he chose to do the latter ;—a story so good , that it is a pity one must doubt it * The merits
and defects of the work have been stated at length by Mr IDunlop , * apparently with great judgment . They may pe briefly summed up , as consisting , —the defects , in want of character and probability ; sameness of vicissitude , and
inartificiality of ordonnance ; the merits , in an interesting and gradual development of the story , variety and vivacity of description , elegance of style , and one good character , —rthat of the heroine , who is
indeed y $ ry charming , being w endued with groat strength
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of mind , united to a deliqacc of feeling , and an addreai which turns every situation tt the best advantage . " Tfah work also abounds in curiouu local accounts of Egypt , am of the customs of the timci
interesting to an antiquary . The impression produce * upon our own mind after read ! ing the version before us , wai in accordance with Mr Bum lop ' s criticism , and a feeling betwixt confusion and delightl as if we had been witnessing the adventures of a sort a
Grecian Harlequin and Colum bine , perpetually running it and out of the stage , accom panied by an old gentleman and pursued by thieves anc murderers . The incidents art
most gratuitous , but oftei beautifully described , and sc ear the persons ; and the worl has been such a general fa vourite that the subsequent Greek romancers copied it ; th < old French school of romance arose out of it ; it has beei
used by Spenser , Tasso , anc Guarini , imitated by Sidney ii his Arcadia , painted from b ] Raphael , and succeeding ro mancers , with Sir Walter Scot for the climax , have ac ( opte < from it the striking and pictu resque nature of their exor diums .
The following is one of th « two subjects chosen by Ra ph ^ el , —a description of a lov < at first sight , pained wit equal force and delicacy . J sacrificial rite ia being per ¦' . i .. i ' . .. ¦ ' v . 1 ' - ; \
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Retrospective Review . 288
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• ' Hbuwy of FioUou . VoL i , p . la
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/62/
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