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hgftte beeitt&r of u */* two voice ? " ? N < Qt be 1 But w *« h&ve no commissionerakips oi sUunpa aad taxes to give . Have we aught to console us ? Yes ! evea of those who have deserted us we have had the best services . The harps of recreants are " vain and
voiceless" when they touch the wonted chords . The young enthusiasm of early aad hallosved devotion is passed away . They sell their laurels , but they have been plucked from the tree © n which they grew—they have lost their brightness asnd their beauty ; the stem of the floNver is broken : it may
be feeld up once , but it fades swiftly , aw } for ever . We will not dwell on thoughts like tbes ^ Iu speaking of Wordsworth w ^ wish they could be exiled , we almost wish he could exile them—we would faia meet him in a sphere where they need not intrude . We will forget them . The storm of our indignation hath ceased :
« ~~ - > - The storm l * ath ceased , the birds regain Tfae 4 r cheerfulness , and busily retina Their Beats , or ckaunt a gratulating hyipu To the blue ether and bespangled plain . " P . 9 .
Many of the events of the early Clmreh history are wrought up with to uching beauty . We cannot do justice to the whole by any series of quotations . The sympathies of the poet , always eloquent , are not , however , dependent on facts or on convictions , but on prejudices and passions .
Wordsworth ' s " Apology" may be quoted , for the Sonnet is an admirable one : «« Nor scoria the aid which Fancy oft doth k »* id Tbe soul ' * eternal interests to promote : Peatl * , d ^ rkuess , danger , are our natural lot ;
And evil spirits mqy our walk attend For aught the wisest know or comprehend ; Then let the good be free to breathe a note Of clcrgtion—let their odours float Around Uhese converts , and their glories bltind .
CMttfhuiing nightly tapers , or the blaze Of -U * e , noon-day . r 4 © r doubt that golden earijs Of « W 4 wprkss , UWgllng With tte vistemj i ^ g
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The soul to pi ** sr worlds ^ , ^ tha Une ^ Shall draw , the limits of- the power dp fine , That even imperfect faith to man af fords ? " P . 2 ^ His eulogium on Alfred i $ jU 3 t ^ energetic :
" King to Justice dear Lord of the harp and liberating spear Mirror of Princes ! Indigent Renown ' Might range the starry ether for a crown Equal to his deserts , who , like the year Pours forth his bounty , like the day doth cheer , And awes like night with mercy-tempered frown .
Ease from this noble Miser of his tirue No moment steals ; pain narrows not his cares . p . 28 . There is little indignation expressed on the arrival of the Normans : though they broke up all popular institutions
and destroyed every vestige of liberty , though they introduced an hereditar y aristocracy , founded on force and fraud , which sacrificed every thing to its unrestrained usurpations , we have the tame assurance that this
thraldrona ** brings to Religion no injurious change . "—P . 33 . The Sottnet to Wickliffe is rich in poetry and beauty : c < Once more the Church is seized with sudden fear . And at her call is Wicliffe disinhumed : Yea , his dry bones to ashes are consumed .
And flung into the brook that travels near ; Forthwith , that ancient Voice which streams can hear
Thus speaks , ( that voice which walks upon the wiiul , Though seldom heard by busy human kind , ) As thou these ashes , little tyrook ! wilt bear
Into the Avon , Avon to the tide Of Severn , Severn to the narrow seas , Into main Ocean they , this Deed accurst An emblem yields to friends ^ Bd enewks How the bold Teacher's Doctrine , sanctified By Truth , shall spread throug hout the world dispersed . '" P- ^ 2-
So a ^ ain , that on the Dissolution of the Monasteries : « Amidst tzheir ctoaire umropfoci by «^« vut n ^ k t Tl ¥ i warbOipg wrqs sfcaU * M * rt * ^ CSL&Q i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/42/
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