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4 £ 6 Poetry .- ^ To Daughter .
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rihost gifted of mortals . In one of his Discourses he supposes a tcontest between this liigher orders of intelligence fbr the dominion of this worid , and dwells on the snppositiou with all the
pomp of language . But , through the Whole of this Sermon , not a glimpse is afforded us " of the awful combatants ; Hot even the dim form of an infernal enemy is seen throtigh the gloom . Every trpithet , appropriate and inappropriate , is lavished ; trat not a single i miafffi nresrented to ow view In short
our audror dwells merely on abstract quaffties , and is incapafole of embodying them in lovely t ? r awful forms . Instead of this , he tells us , tfhey are lovely or awful ; and he may tell us truly , ibut there is no sublimity in this . His admirers liave mistaken words for ideas , that is all . His speculations reterte to thiirgs which are rn themselves stfand ; to the extent of the universe ,
to "the softer excellences of the Divine character , to the glorious multitudes of higher orders of beings . Having chosen stiWime 1 ? hemes , he dilates on therm in high - sounding language ; dispenses thfe terms " magnificence , " "immensity , " " darkling" , "tmllrant , " ** maccessit / te , " and a number of superlatives with fhe most magnanimous profusion , and adonis every strbject with the rno ^ t isretiero os variety of
epithet . Thus he pours on other worlds " the tyloom af vegetation and fhe blessedness of life ;* ' he throws " around radiance" a sweet and softening lustre ; " he Kheds * ' tides of ecstacy , ^ and ** floods of tenderness " over clasters of stars * md millions of beings ; and for * iis labour , is regarded as a master of the trtre sublime . He
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To a Daughtery an having left her attending the last hours of fmr Grandftethe >\ a jriwus Cetfainist .
Eliza , « tiH thy duteous cares engage ! 7 i > rock the cradle of reposing age , To watch tirM . Nature in her last decay . As temp e rate life , though li&g ' iiog , <^> bs away : Still in ttrat school of sacred wisdom wait , The chamber tohere the good man meets his tfxte ,
m * While faifli d ' tviwe , tkat looks beyond the tomb , Anticipates ti better wH > rkl to eoaae ^ The faith sincere , each humflbke Christian a s Thougih error mix the ^ old with base alloy , Thouerh creeds and systems veil a faflier s
face , In vengeful Frowns o * er afl his fliortal race , Save The predesftu'VI , ifhoire For whvm alone A StYiwr would altfighty wrwlh tttone ^
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might as soon become WtffHtert&l by the aid of an « xtra number of nofeis of admiriation , ot witty by the assistance of italics . The enrer t > f his aidhftrfirtfers lies iti taking quantity for quality 5 a certain liunafoer of adiecti'vies fMr ' -a
description *—a pomp of ** or $ & for a siiccession of images . As the giuntls of old heaped Pelion on Ossat fee piles epithet on epithet , 'and fancies he shall scale heaven ; but , fttoe them , lie is earthborn , and likfc them must fail . His efforts stand in "nearly Itre satnfc relation to the sublime , as Swiftfs verses to a Lad ^ of Quality do to the
beautiful , only tfre Dean is Ux jest wljile the Doctor is sferioHS . ' Were we shortly to tharaefcerifce the work before us , we should do it by repeating the reply < jf Hamlet fe Polonios , < € Words 1 words ! words ! " Of these tve readily a 4 mit our author pos * sesses no common jstofe . It is toot , therefore , istipristrtg tfiat Ire ftliotiM
make a -great impression ot ^ an audience , assembled for the expness pur * pose of being delighted , and % r th& most part unused to he&r « wiy Ifoijig ^ which makes a glittering prgtetH&on te eloqoence . He lias Ms wt re \ vard in their praises . Of tlt 4 s boon he is more worthy t / hati ^ someSvho haw possessed
it rjetore , and peraaps man inasry to whom rt may hereafter deseetfd . But he must substitute argnrtifetit for assertion , thought for vetrira ^ e , andi « aarg ^ ry fbr epif tiet , ^ before he can reasonably hope that liis writing's yviH r be held m undying retnewibratnce tjy the 'great and good of future times . T . N . T .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/50/
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