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0 Lord ! though like a faded leaf , That ' s severed from its parent tree , 1 struggle down life ' s stormy tide , That awful tide which leads to Thee ; —
Still , Lord 1 to thee the voice of praise Shall spring triumphant from my breast ; Since , though I tread a weary way , I trust that he 1 mown is blest !"
There is a rery excellent paper by Miss Edgeworth on " French Oaths /' which has no light bearing on English morals . The decided character of this valuable collection is religious , but the principles assumed and enforced are chiefly those that are common to all Christians . The volume exhibits from
beginning to end remarkable purity of moral taste , and the Editor and publishers appear to us to be entitled to the gratitude of the public .
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Art . V . — A Collection of Sacred Music for Churches and Chapels .
consisting of Fifty-two Psalm and Hymn Tunes for Four Voices Twelve of which are Original > ( Sh by the Author and Six composed expressly for this Work , by his Friends Mr Clifton , Mr . F . Novello , Mr . E . Taylor , Mr . S .
Wesley , fyc ., ) and Forty of Established Celebrity , with New Harmonies , Composed and Arranged for the Organ or Piano Forte . By Joseph Major . 4 to . Clementi and Co . 10 * . 6 d . WE have great pleasure in recommending this volume to
public notice . Collections of Psalm Tunes certainly abound ; but by far the larger number of them are either so faulty in arrangement , or in such wretched taste , as only to proclaim the ignorance or conceit of their authors . With many choirs
psalm tunes are admired in proportion a . s they are bad , and our ears arc too often assailed with vulgar melodies set off by all kinds of false harmonies and progressions . Other cominto
pilers and composers have run an opposite extreme , and tortured not only the more chaste and sober style of Handel and his contemporaries into psalm tunes , but have pressed into their service the florid strains of Haydn , or the uncouth combinations of Beethoven . Thus even
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Art . IV . —Things invisible ; or , Lessons of Faith and Practice . A Vision . With other Poems , Religious , Moral and Entertaining - By Gabriel Watts . 12 mo . pp . 146 . C . S . Arnold . 1826 . 5 * . 6 rf .
SHOULD this volume not give Mr . Watts a place amongst acknowledged British poets , it certainly proves that be is entitled to the higher reputation of patriotic and religious feelings . Some of the
minor poems are " entertaining ; " and there is true English spirit in the verses Cf On visiting Runnymead , " ( pp . 115—117 , ) some of which we extract :
cc Sacred spot , to ev ' ry friend Of freedom and heroic worth May thy borders never blend With the mass of common earth . Now , can strong prophetic eyes , Piercing the surrounding gloom , See a lofty temple rise , Deck'd with tow ' rs and glitt e ring dome
There shall genuine , unbought verse , Set to minstrel ' s pleasing sound , Deeds of heroes oft rehearse , 'Midst applauding throngs around . ' Souls ignoble , vent u ring near , Hence , avaunt J your vulgar tread ; Banish evry coward fear , Ere you enter Runnymead .
c Spirits of the mighty dead Mingled here in bright array ; Slavery their only dread , Liberty their only joy .
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620 Tilings Invisible , or Lessons of Faitk and Practice *
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€ Round a Brit 6 n * s manly brpw Ne ' ei * let puMic h % ndtif $ felting - Till he make his sole ma vbw Nigh this animating shrine . c Still commemorate the brave , Still unnerve the tyrant ' s arm , Shame the cold and treachVous slave , And the patriot ' s bosom warm .
* Long as Albion ' s cliffs shall stand , Tow ' ring o ' er the circling main , Wisdom , rule our fav ' rite land , Courage , all its rights maintain * ' And , if e ' er in hapless hour , It become a land of slaves , Under some despotic pow ' r—Let it sink beneath the waves !* "
Mr . Watts announces his intention of shortly publishing " in prose , " " The Reformed Village ; or , Characteristic Dialogues , chiefly Founded on Facts of the Eighteenth Century . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1826, page 620, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2553/page/48/
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