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Th « padding bramble Jiang her purple fruit ; And the green lizard and tbe gilded newt lead unmolested lives , and die of age * P . 56 . And with what a striking association of imagery is the Virgin depicted !
« purer than foam on central Ocean test ; Brighter than eastern skies at day-break strewn With fancied roses , than the unblemished noon Before her wain begins on heaven's blue coast . P . 60 .
There are two Sonnets in laud of Edward the Sixth . We know nothing in that youth ' s conduct or character which could lead to the reasonable expectation that he would have been better than those who went before or those who followed him . If his
intentions were good , his deeds were execrable . If his early tears can wash away the stains of his after errors , they have more virtue than the tears of meaner men . If Edward was not a cruel and a wicked young man , he was a miserably weak and silly one ; but he was a monarch , and must have his portion of praise .
A noble Sonnet , ( p . yo , ) and repeated in the volume of Memorials , p . 14 , meant to illustrate the " Gunpowder Plot , " might with much more correctness be applied to the magnificent array of despotic power , which so often blinds and deludes the gitzer and conceals the terrors which are linked to it :
" The Virgin Mountain , wearing like a Queen A brilliant crown of everlasting Snow , Sheds ruin from her sides ; and men below Wonder that aught of aspect so . serene Can Uuk with desolation . Smooth and green , And seeming , at a little distance , slow , The waters of the Ithine ; but on they * retting aud whitening * keener and more keen .
* ul uiaduess seizes on the whole wide Flood , Turned to u fearful Thing whose nostrils breathe Blasts of tempestuous smoke—wherewith he tries *<> hicte hhbtelf t * n only tuagnines %
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A 64 3 bth in more conspicuous torment wrkhe , „ Deafening the region la his ireful n *» od . " P . 75 . Laud is one of our poet's heroes—< f a saint and patfiot . " His death was , however , so fine and noble , that wo would fain ' forget it-was the kiet scene of such a life *
To Charles the Second , Wordsworth has done justice , ( p . 83 , ) and to the Nonconformists too , if they can be discovered in the crowd under their pew name . " Nor shall the eternal roll of pratee reject Those Unconforming ; whom one rigorous day
Drives from their Cures , a voluntary prey To poverty and grief , and disrespect , And some to want—as if by tempest wreck'd On a wild coast ; how destitute ! did They Feel not that Conscience never can betray , That peace of mind is Virtue ' s sure effect . Their Altars they forego , their home * thev auit .
Fields which they love , and paths they daily trod , And cast the future upon Providence ; As men the dictate of whose inward sense Outweighs the world ; whom self-deceiving wit
Lures not from what they deem the cause of God . " P . 86 . There is no truth in the notion that the Revolution in 1688 was a popular one . Wordsworth calls William the Third " Conqueror beloved ! expected anxiously !" P . 8 H .
Did he ever reud the history of his early reception in the West of England ? He was < 4 anxiously expected , " no doubt , by those placemen wh < o had been dismissed by James , and who , for their selfish interests , plotted the overthrow of the iStuarts ; but no revolution was ever so worthless ift its results as that which brought m thit l-fniiu ^ ** f ( ) rjm < r <* T ^\ ¦
4 / J 1 * _ JL -M KS % ^ UV > . a -r- « % «»*« - *— « Several of the Sonnets are dedicated to " New Churches , " Cathedrals , " < l College Chapels , " &c . IC Bright ladders to tbe world above ; ' * and the poet neetiid to cortuider their architectural beatitiefe worthy fcf Him
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/43/
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