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    never spoken more to the purpose , or could have put no better face on things , she would have done well to have held her tongue for ever , or have taken the veil at once)—and the false jingles and vulgar measures of such " serenades" and " harps of tears , " that even the sweetest simplicity of the veriest school-girl that ever " pensively thought of her love " " When not a wave is foaming " , And nought but passion roaming , " would be above listening to .

    We are glad to turn at once to those subjects which are in his way , and we give Mr . Johns credit for his skill in making a very capital selection . We know it is , with some , a poetical heresy to consider the vilest pebble one grade lower in the scale of inspiration than the noblest star ; nevertheless , we do hold a fine subject to be a fine thing , ( a fine historical subject made known by the title , more especially , ) of equal advantage to author and reader ,

    as it predisposes the one to receive more readily the impressions which the other would convey , and to be more rapidly and completely identified with his emotions and thoughts . The mind is pitched in the proper key , the symphony or overture is played , the gathering note sounded , and all is concentrated and made ready for immediate action . To proceed , without more delay , to what we consider ( with an exception or two in favour of some old favourites ) incomparably the best part of the volume—we refer to his historical sketches . And it is pleasant to feel our hearts stirring within us as we turn with him to " the ten thousand at the sacred Mount , " to their former exploits at " Cynaxa ' s field , " and trace again their wanderings to the shore of the Euphrates , to the birth-place of the infant Tigris , < fi that far Armenian cave , " and contrast their repose

    " Underneath the snow-horn pines Of the wild Carduchian hills , " with their frantic energy while " Scaling Thechea' side , Their vsm on . Theches' brow : "

    when , after a momentary pause , " On they rushed as to the fight , Bat it wag no battle word ; For , the sea ! the sea ! from the mountain ' s brow 1

    In a thousandshouts was heard—The sea ! the sea !" Pleasant it is , too , to feel our ears tingle with the echo of that tumultuous shout , and our eyes , " albeit unused * " &c , grow weak as we too gaze on that

    " line of blue cloud , the distant main , " The landing of Agrippina with the ashes of Germanieus is too long fof quotation , yet we cau scarcely keep our hands fromi transcribing so graphic a scene , as little as our eyes from again following fchat moving and spectral mass , issuimg at daybreak from the cold , n * a nuxnentaUlooking city to the sea-shore ; and although as they proceed the sun rises , clears the sea , brightens hill and plain , and makes the city glow like a statue of opal , we perceive that they heed ill Bofc ; the same changeless , frigidily-fixed expression remaining till tkey throng on the beach , taking tbeir stand to watch over that sea-solitude till the Imperial fleet should arrive . The distant sail * the

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    Dews of Custalie . 179

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1829, page 179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2570/page/27/