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the enlightened and moral tone which , pervades the whole of the article , and the accurate estimate of his lordship ' s real character and peculiar merits as a poet , which that article in my opinion fully displays , I could not help the sense of shame overwhelming
me as an Englishman for the arrogance of pretension which the article in the London Magazine manifests . Its coarseness of expression , its frivolity and impotent attempt at depreciation , are , however out of keeping , to be excused , compared with the rantipole amusement that pervades the whole of the criticism . Whatever
the North American depreciates the Londoner must extol , whatever the former approves the latter of course must depreciate . Even some of Byron ' s careless prosaic lines—and every reader is aware that of these the
number is immense — because the North American reprobates , the Londoner is bound to applaud . The following is an instance : speakiil £ of dogs devouring dead bodies after the carnage of the battle , his lordship observes ,
" They were too busy to bark * at him ; From a Tartar ' s skull they had stripped the flesh , As ye peel the fig vvlieu the fruit is 'fresh /
These lines occur in a passage pronounced by the Londoner * ' of wonderful power and fine though appalling effect . " In the present period of our literature , while extravagance of conceit
has found extravagant admirers in Byshe Shelley , and nudity has been preferred to covering , or rusticity to ornament in Wordsworth ; while Byron s garb of majesty has had fewer admirers than his night-gown and
sli ppers—it is quite refreshing to appreciate the taste and critical acumen of the writer of the . North-American Review . It seems to be formed on the standard of the Augustan age of British literature , namely , that of the reiga of Queeu Anne . Emerging
* Tins assertion is contrary to the propensities of the animal . When feeding at liberty and voraciously , dogs always bark at whatever conies uear them , under the evident fear of being deprived of their food .
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from the cradle of untutored nature , they , " the sons of the free , * ' very properly turn for assistance to the handmaid of art . The Londoner
professes to have an extraordinary relish ' for every thing that is natural * but unfortunately , like his fellow-cockney , who when potatoes were first brought to Covent-Garden Market observed , they trees like lesbut
* ' grew on app , were dirtied by the hands of the rustics who gathered them /* he takes not the trouble to separate what is really natural from the dirt or the crust by which it is enveloped .
This c ' Reviewing of Reviewers , " now become so very obtrusive in almost every journal aiid periodical miscellany , reminds me of an occurrence in natural history which once
fell under my observation . The leaves of a water willow , glistening with a recent honey dew , exhibited an innumerable quantity of insects of the Aphioo species . The little animals nearlv covered the whole of the
foliage , and , with appetites voracious and indiscri initiating , the liquid that exuded from the anus of one was greedily devoured by the mouth of another . W . H .
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On the Passages ascribed to Mutt hew and Luke . 207
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On the Passages ascribed to Matthew and Luke ; Matt . i . 18 to ii . 23 , and Luke i . 5 to ii . 52 * Sir , IT does appear to be of no small importance to the general credit of the gospel histories , that it should be determined whether or not the
passages prefixed to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke , relating to the birth and early life of Christ prior to the descent of the Holy Spirit upon him . at his baptism , were penned and intended to be represented by them as a part of their testimony , and that of the apostles in general , concerning Christ . The writer of these remarks
is indeed ill qualified , in many respects , to determine a question of this nature , but as there are some arguments from these and the other books of the New Testament , and
some to which he can refer from other sources which to his mind appe ar to be decisive against both the genuineness and authenticity of those passages , be cannot refrain from offer-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/19/
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