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    lines are continually occurring which , humour them as much as we may , will not and cannort be metrical . There is still the same iTidistinctiieas of metaphor , and the same redundancy of words . And , moreover ? L . J&X . ^ ay con ti iiue to be interpreted by Love , Everlasting Love . But it is , only justice to say that all her faults appear to be diminishing , and she displays a considerable increase of

    poetic power . We have good hopes of her ; and the more so as the evident improvement in this volume shews that she has not been spoiled by the preposterous puffery of her patron of the Literary Gazette , Her path is open to the very highest rank among the poetesses of the day ; she has capabilities for its attainment ; and the truth and beauty of the following Hoes may almost be taken as a pledge that she will arrive at it .

    ** Out on our being ' s falsehood !—stu-* died , cold , Are we not like that actor o £ old time . Who wore his jnask so long , his features took its likeness ?—Thus we feign we do not feel , Until our feelings are forgotten things , iTheirnature warp'd in one base

    selfishness ; And generous impulses , and lofty thoughts , Are counted folly , or are not believed : And he who doubts or mocks at excellence ( Good that refines our nature , and subdues ) , Is riveted to earth by sevenfold chains .

    Of never had the poet's lute a hope , An aim so glorious as its present one , In this our social state , where petty cares And mercenary interests only look Upon the littleness of to-day , and shrink From the bold future , and the stately past * —«• Where the smooth surface of society Is polish'd by deceit , and the warm heart

    With all its kiiid affections' early flow , Flung b $ ck upon itself , forgets to beat , At Jeaitf for others;—' tis the poet ' s " gift To melt these frozen waters into tears , By sympathy with sorrows not our own , By wakening memory with those mournful notes , Whose music is the thoughts of early

    years , When truth was on tlie lip , and feelings wo ^ e The sweetness aud the freshness of their morn .

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    Young poet , if thy dreams have not such hope ' '' ... " ' ¦ '* "" ¦ To purify , refine , exalt , snbdit f ^' To totfeh the selfish , arixt to shame the 11 > vatii ¦ ¦ , . ¦ ¦ '; :- - Out of themselves , by gentle mournfulness , Or chords that rouse some aim of

    enterprise ,. Lofty aud pure , and meant for general go <« l > If thou hast not some power that may direct The niiod from the mean round of daily life , Waking affectious that might else have

    slept , Or high resolves , that petrified before , Or rousing in that mind a finer sense Of inward and external loveliness , Making imagination serve as guide To all of heaven that yet remains on earth , — Thine is a useless late z break it , and die "

    The London University Magazine * its origin , character , and resources , so far as they can be judged pf by . the . first number * may be described by the title of the first article in that nuuiber f ' * A Young Head , and , what is b $ tte * . sjitl , a Young Heart . " Indications of 1 p 0 i these Juvenilities areVyery abundant ^ But the

    establishment of ^ a-perioaical is " xxo boy ' s play ; " and if not old , yet mature , heads and hearts must be admitted into alliance , and predominate in the manage wen I , to afford a fair prospect of success . Had that been the case , some mistakes in this number , especially that of the very absurd dedication to the King , would hardly have been

    committed . Still , as a bona fide production of the students , it is creditable and promising . There is a judicious intermixture of scientific papers with those of a lighter description ; and , what ,. we were rather surprised to , see , after a disclaimer of religion as well as politics , there is an Essay " ou ~ a General Judgment , and on ihe Effects which a Belief therein produces on the Human Character . " The

    object of this paper 19 to shew that the expectation of a future judgment is founded , exclusiveJy , upon divine revelation . One topic in it , that of the preponderance of pleasure over suffering in the present state of existence , is ingeniously and conclusively handled . B « t iu the pursuit of bis main object $ he writer seems to want a distinct notion of the difference between human and diviue

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    Monthly Report 0 / Genera / Literftture . 793

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    VOL . III . 3 I

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1829, page 793, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2578/page/49/