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nftl / i pulsations j be felt , through the waistcoat of the old pattern volant . The only fault we find with Jiim * in these unconventional times , is that his sympathies ^ large as they are , partake a little too much of the
retrospectiveness of his style ; and stop short of certain wider , and we eannot help thinking , juste r notions of right and wrong , especially in the treatment and appreciation of females . Here is one of the heroes of the
drama before us , for instance , — Waller , who is a mere conventional gentleman of the most ordinary kind , not free from the most vicious assumptions of a man of the town , in thinking he
has a right to the love of a woman whom , according to his own notions , he has attempted to degrade ; and the woman is made to love him , for no reason that we can ^ iacer n ; and they aremarried . Then We have also a sort of
Beatrice , who banters and even storms a man into love ( a strange process !) and is understood to love the man she thus lords it over andmakesridiculous ; which though in nature , after a certain fashion-, is , ¦ , to our taste , not
pleasant or womanly nature : though Shakflpeare , among liis various portraitures , has justifiably giVet * a specimen of it . The 1 © txW principal characters areia eouple of Vain old people , who are raadd absurd ; and pro- * duee 4 in old theatridal surprise , by
as $ u < min ? £ that the younger ones are * e&amt > ffred of them . In short , we 'd 6 not 1 think this 'comedy one of the new ^ est ' or mhst agreeable of M ! r i KnoWes's productions , though tfaetfe sire many passages i iait full of his usual beauty and'trufchftdness . ' 'P < iVI " i : ""' ... ' .,,. ¦ t , . ,. ¦ I i .. . . ' : i ,. ! , . .
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The Death bf Marlowe : A Tragedy , in One Act . By R * HI Hortiie , Author of < Cosmo de * Medici . ' Saunders and Otley . We . need not tell the readers
of the Monthly Repository , that this is a reprint ; nor what a masterly specimen it is of the concentration of a world of life , passion , and sympathy . If the old Globe , or Blactfriars Theatre , could suddenly be raised
out of the ground , with those who just remembered the days of Marlowe for spectators , this were a piece to fill up an hour for them , to the content of their
stout and truly refined souls;—souls , that minced no matters in which humanity was discernible . But who shall dare now-a-days to bring a courtezan on the stage , and find that she retains a heart
in her bosom ? Extremes meet ; and the new sense of a doubt of our moral perfection , falling upon a mechanical age , renders conventionality doubly sore and suspicious , and rebukes its want of couracre and real innocence . We
have to thank Mr Home for a great honour done us , by the inscription of the work to our
name . Sketches in the . JPyrerwe& > $ 'c « By the Author of ' Slight Reminiscenses of tjic Rhine , ' and the ' Gossip ' s W ^ ek . V , ( Second Notice ?) ; , An objection , wlilch grieves us , lias been made to the Use of' iihte
word " fine-la dyi * iu * ' in ' our first artfcld' oir this charnting book . We ftire thought to fcav ^ meant a great deal more ' by'it than we did , nnd t 6 imWythat
the h ighly in tell igert t awd [ ffedfeg authoress * is but a bophistic ^ fe person after all , > &mrik a dealfer in
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/69/
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