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ing to / be tlma sung—worth suffering to be thus consoled . The Ode to Enterprise is , perhaps , the master-piece of the volume . The sublime aspirations are clothed in the richest imagery , atid a variety of objects admirably grouped and powerfully described .
" —And thou Didst oft the flame-eyed eagle scare With infant shout , —as often sweep , paired with the Ostrich , o ' er the plain ; And , tired with sport , wouldst sink asleep Upon the couchant Lion ' s mane 1 P . 73 .
" Inflamed by thee , the blooming Boy Makes of the whistling shrouds a toy , And of the Ocean ' s dismal breast V play-gi'ound and a couch of rest . " P . 74
All the charm and beauty of that poetical creed of which Wordsworth Ls the high-priest , is contained in the following powerful lines : « — But oh ! what transports , what sublime reward , Won from the world of mind , dost thou
prepare For Philosophic Sage — or high-souled Bard Who , for thy service trained in lonely woods , Hath fed on pageants floating thro' the
, Or calentured in depth of limpid floods ; Nor grieves—tho' doomed , thro * silent night , to bear Hie domination of his glorious themes , Or struggle in the net-work of thy dreams I" P . 70 .
Several of the " Desultory Stanzas /' on sending his " little book" into the world , are magnificent—a concentration of sublime thoughts and feelings crowded by busy memory into a moment of inspiration .
" Is not the Chamois suited to his place ? The Kagle worthy of her ancestry ? — I ^ -et empires fall ; but ne ' er shall Ye disgrace ^ our noble birthright , Ye that occupy Your council-seats beneath the open sky , Un Sarnen ' s Mount , there judge of fit
and right , h » simple democratic majesty ; Soft breezes fanning your rough brows . " P . < J 8 . Wordsworth is indeed a great poet . " his admirers be few , they are eho-^ from among the best of our spe-^ s . At his shrine the young , the in-
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genuous , the susceptible and the strong-minded have laid down their grateful offerings . Though noiseless as the voice of time , he has produced a deeper and a more lasting influence on modern English poetry than any
writer of his epoch . His spirit may be traced in almost every thing that has obtained the chance of enduringfame . His poetry has made its way —an unobtrusive , gentle proselytizerlike the great stream of knowledge
and improvement . He has not gathered the harvest of general applause r it will be for his memory and not for his earthly triumph . Of the living names which will be immortal , two at least will be said to have been little honoured in their day and generation . B .
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Cap * . Thrush ' s Letter to the Archdeacon of-Cleveland . 365
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Art . III . —A Letter to the Ven * and Rev . Francis IVrangham , M . A . y F . R . S . Archdeacon of Cleveland , on the Subject of his Charge ,
delivered to the Clergy at Thirsh , on the 18 * A of July , 1821 . By Captain Thomas Thrush , R . N . With an Appendix , &c . 8 vo . pp . 144 . York , printed by Wilson and Sons ; sold by Hunter , London . 1822 .
CAPT . THRUSH ' S excellent Letter * to his Fellow-parishioners has excited , it seems , no little attention in his immediate neighbourhood . Several clergymen of the vicinity have thought it their duty to
warn their respective flocks against his errors , and Mr . Wrangham , the archdeacon of Cleveland , delivered and lias since published a Visitation Charge to excite the Clergy to watch and counteract the heretical efforts of the
Naval Officer . Undaunted by this polemic array , and unwearied in the cause of truth , Capt . Thrush has addressed this Letter to the Archdeacon , containing much sober argument and Christian remonstrance . In the
Appendix , he has re-published the ' * Letter to the Inhabitants of the Parish of Filiskirk , " and on this subject he says , " That those who have heard or read your Charge , and who may likewise condescend to read these pages , may form a correct judgment concerning my
delin-* This " Letter" was reprinted in the Christian Reformer , Vol . VII . pp , 169—178 , 1 <> 4—202 , 238—24 $ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/45/
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