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another 1 The imitators of Milton , like most other imitators , are not copies but caricatures of their original ; they are an hundred times more obscure and cramp than he , and equally so in all places ; whereas it
should have been observed of Milton , that he is not lavish of his exotic words and phrases every where alike , but employs them much more where the subject is marvellous , vast and
strange , as in the scenes of heaven , hell and chaos , than where it is turned to the natural and agreeable , as in the pictures of Paradise ' the loves of our first parents , and the entertainments of angels !"
Having animadverted on the theological complection of the Rev . E . Irving * s work , the preceding remarks upon the literary merits of the production may close my animadversions , and pot prove unacceptable to the readers of your Miscellany .
Q { all his " unregenerate critics , " the Westminster Review furnishes the best account of his work , and to that excellent periodical publication I refer with satisfaction . Never wa ; s a poor author visited with such extremes of approbation and of disapprobation . One of his admirers denominates
him " the Northern eagle grasping in his talons the thunderbolt and scattering abroad the lightning ; whilst a diurnal critic represents his production no better than that of " a school boy , which his master flings back into his face for its nonsense
and inaccuracy / " Both of these statements cannot be true , and , indeed , neither is deserving of attention . Mr . Irving is , no doubt , a man of talent and acquirement ; his work , though uot £ aivinisiic , breathes a spirit of benevolence and piety . I only wish
the style was more pure and chaste , agreeably tp the above masterly suggestions of Pope , and that it had not been so deformed by that horrid antiscriptural doctrine of eternal misery ! But I must check my pen : my only aim is to render Mr . Irving justice ,
entertaining for the sons of Caledonia a regard arising from having finished my education amongst them , and passed pleasantly an early portion of my life in their society . I had the happiness of knowing and enjoying the instructions of Campbell and Gerr
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v * m * dy of Blah' and ftohert&im ^ i gmjU ; naries tjiat wpukl Jiave adorned aiiy church , and been a blessing tp % ny civilized community . J . " EVANS .
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Mr . I ^ e Grice on h \ $ Corvqspwdence with Sir Rose Price , Bart ., in Bepltf to I . W . Penzpnce , Sir , April 9 th , 1824—AS my Cqrrespoa 4 ea ^ with Sir Rose Price appeared ia the
public newspapers , I have no right to complain of yoiir inserting i % Iff yotir Repository j but have rather reaspD to J > e satisfied with the candid planner i # which ypi | h ^ ve printed H ; for gmdmi r may be visible even frou * the made of printing . At the end of the Corre- »
spondence appears a Summary of it , dated from Plymouth , and signed I . W , Of this I have great reason to complain ^ though , if the reader should peruse the whole of the Corresponds ence , this statement will dp little harm . The danger , however , is , that most readers will turn from the
tediousness of a long correspoiideace to a summary , which from its very title promises brevity - and wljgre a writer takes uponlpmself the &fiice of a judge , truth and justice are Jo be expected ,: though tjiere might be a failure of ability and discriminatiop . Surely the writer could not have entertained an
idea that the Correspondence vyould have appeared in your pages , or he would not have ventured to have published such an incorrect account . He calls me " a flaming son of the Church . ' * On the grammatical propriety of this epithet I shall make no remark : we all know the meaning of it . All I shall
say is , that it docs not in the very outset of the Summary bespeak the impartiality of the judge - I , apd trust that if he will take the trouble to ask my character In the tow ^ a of which I am minister , ( and I refer him to those who dissent from our Church , ) he will find that I do not deserve it . He dates
his letter from Plymouth , tind therefore need not be a stranger to the character of a person almost a neighbour . However , the tone of his language is of small moment , and . if a hundred such epithets had been used , I should not have taken notice of them , ; but positive misstatemettts demand oIn
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1824, page 216, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2523/page/24/
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