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manner , is represented as dwelling on the remembrance of the boy he has lost . His thoughts kindle up more and more at retracing an image of so
much life , fire , joy and beauty , until at length ( vers . 52 ) his mind again runs away with itself , and begins to form pictures of future happiness which the youth is to experience on
earth . 55 . The visionary dreams , in which the father and the sympathiser were but now indulging-, are suddenly dispelled again by the creaking of the church-yard gate . But religion here comes to their aid . They revel in hopes of the youth ' s immortality and
bliss in Paradise . Yet even these consolations , which are supposed to occupy their minds while they are walking from the church-yard gate to the grave , receive immediately an awful shock by the occurrence of the funereal sensible images so minutely described in vers . 64—67 .
59—63 . The poetry of the situation is very much heightened by describing the parties as subjected to the influence of ancient northern superstitions , respecting the happiness of the blest , in place of the more philosophical conceptions on that subject derived from comparatively modern Christianity .
67 . Here the narrative description , directly in the person of the author , is resumed . He now , as I before intimated , suggests , that he forms himself a part of the sorrowing train .
78 . This is descriptive of the sudden wish of the whole company , or perhaps of the father alone , to catch one glimpse more of the departed youth before he is separated from them for ever .
79—81 . The poet in his own person , while the train are retreating-, suggests the impossibility of gratif y , ing : them .
oO . The false rhyme in which the word din is repeated is but an exact counterpart to the original . The vanety of metres in the translation corresponds to that in the original .
Afr . Freeman on the Coronation Oath % The patronymic of this correspondent , his sturdy good sense , a the particular subject which has called forth such remarks from such d quarter , all suggest to us the ad-
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vancement of certain ranks of society in-knowledge , conscious importance , and personal independence . Traditions of Edinburgh . There
is something , to me , wofully flat and mal- <( m ~ fttit in Lord Kaines ' s epitaph on Smollett ; The Tinklarian Doctor , commemorated in the preceding * extracts , would have succeeded more to my satisfaction .
Dr . Jones on St . Luke * This is in Dr . Jones s happiest style—a mixture of profound learning and inspired penetration . I only feel a doubt , though not a strong one , respecting Paul ' s meaning of the word gospel , in connexion with the praise of Luke through all the churches .
Critical Synopsis . On the whole I could not have prescribed to myself a more pleasant and exciting literary task than the Synopsis of the Repository . Mr . Johm on Ordination Services .
I hope Mr . Johns will not proceed to attack those delightful tea-drinking parties which the young ladies , in some places of England , arrange in their chapels , contrary to all scriptural authority and ecclesiastical usage .
Although not enjoined in sacred writ , yet they are so entirely in unison with the spirit of Christianity , and with the liberty wherewith we are made free , that 1 should be sorry to see them abolished . Yet Mr . Johns must
discern in them much danger , and must anticipate many evil consequences from admitting active female interference into the concerns of Christian communities .
Epitaph on Baron Maseres . The best commentary on this inscription will be a translation of it . " Beneath this stone lfe the remains of Francis Maseres , Esq ., formerly Fellow of Clare-Hall ,
Cambridge , and for the space of fifty years , Fifth Baron of the Exchequer . "The honour , integrity , impartiality and liberality of this excellent and most amiable man , were conspicuous to all who knew him . To these
distinguished virtues were added a sweetness in discourse and in manners , an affability and good humour , not to be surpassed . His attainments in polite literature and the abstruser sciences were such as entitled him to the highest praise . Having in his youth profoundly studied the Greek and Latin
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Critical Synopsis of th * Monthly Repository f or October 1825 . 585
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1826, page 585, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2553/page/13/
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