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eye to " the moral balance , * ' and a great knack of prosing . It is plain that he has either been very much belied , or that hell is a very good school—one or the other ; lie reminds us indeed of the Italian who proposed to go to hell for good company . Hear what he says of true happiness :
" Not all the pomp and pageantry of worlds Reflect such glory o ? i the eye supreme As the meek virtues of one holy man : For ever doth his Angel , from the face Divine , beatitude aud wisdom draw :
And in his prayer , what privilege adored Mounting the heavens , and claiming audience there ; Yes ! there amid a high immortal host Of seraphs , hymning in eternal choir , A lip of clay its orisons can send , In temple or in solitude outbreathed . "
P . 192 . " From earthly soil no flowers of inward bliss Perennial bloom ; they flourish in the mind Alone ; itself its own true happiness . " Lord Byron has somewhere remarked ( probably in the preface to his Cain )
that it was difficult to make Lucifer talk like a clergyman ; in overcoming this difficulty Mr . Montgomery has been eminently successful , ( so much so , that he does not appear to have felt it , ) and his ( L ^ T « -k A **» «•« I * , r * # " % *¦» a ^ -m « t h e * J ~^ • • ¦««^* a d ~ % »• *~ w » -v 4 —• ¦• *• fk f * ' ™ Satan haran of raptures "
** * gues " pure , divine contemplations by moonlight , and hallelujahs of all kinds and degrees , in a strain that would do credit to Doddridge or Klopstock . Hear what he savs of the Sabbath :
' * How calmly beautiful this blessed mo in ! The sky all azure , not a cloud abroad , A sunny languor iu the air , the breeze Gentle enough to fan an angel ' s brow , " &c . •* Harlc ! on the stillness of the Sabbath air ,
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Mrs . Elizabeth Halliday . 1830 . Jan . 17 , Mrs . Elizabeth Halliday , of Yard House , Taunton . When the living presence of virtue is withdrawn from human observation , we derive a melancholy pleasure from allowing our thoughts to dwelf on the picture which
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From tower and steeple floats the mellow chime Of matin bells ; how sweetly solemn mounts The pealing incense !" " Tis strange , ' tis passing strange , " that Satan should bless the Sabbath , aud love the sound of church bells ! But what says he of love , aud of music ?
" Ethereal essence , interfused through life Is Love . In orbs of glory spirits live On such perfection . "
" Flowers in their infantile bloom Of sympathy , the bend of trees , and boughs , The chime of waters , and caress of winds , Betoken that they all partake a sense Of that sweet principle that charms the world . "
" And that prime bliss , perfection of delight , Which is to ear what beauty is to thought , Sweet melody—raethiuks 'tis only toned In its true heavenliness to hallo w'd minds "—P . 195 .
If Mr . Montgomery had changed a few pronouns , and left out a line here and there , he might have said all he had to say on these subjects in his own peison to greater advantage ; but this , it seems , did not suit him . Probably he is better aware than ourselves of the effect which his hero's name , in large letters , may have upon the hearts ( and pockets ) of
the religious public . If there is any thing characteristic in the poem , it is its theology ; and if we could forget that such views of man ' s fate and God ' s dealings had ever been broached—if we could give the author credit for originating them as worthy of the arch-fiend himself and serving his purpose , we should rank the inventor at least next to Milton .
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memory has portrayed on the tablet of the heart , and from recalling to view the various excellencies which excited our cstechn or won our admiration . Whilst , too , we indulge this " sad privilege , " we rescue from the hands of the spoiler those imperishable qualities of mind
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194 ObUuary . —Mr * . Elizabeth Halliday .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1830, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2582/page/50/
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