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    Where at her drink you started the slim deer , Retreating lightly with a lovely fear . And all about , the birds kept leafy house , And sung and sparkled in and out the boughs ; And all about , a lovely sky of blue Clearly was felt , or down the leaves laughed through ;

    And here and there , in every part , were seats , Some in the open walks , some in retreats ; With bowering leaves o ' erhead , to which the eye Looked up half sweetly and halfawfully ' , — Places of nestling green , for poets made , W 7 iere % when the sunshine struck a yellow shade , The rugged trunks , to inward peepivg sight , Thronged in dark pillars up the gold green light—pp . 58 , 59

    These extracts will show that he has the gift of describing nature . The following will evince that , in the developement of a character , he can seize the great and fix the fine . It is the portrait of the elder of the two princely brothers : — The worst of Prince Giovanni , as his bride Too quickly found , was an ill-temperM pride . Bold , handsome , able ( if he chose ) to please , Punctual and right in common offices ,

    He lost the sight of conduct ' s only worth , The scaWring smiles on this uneasy earth , And on the strength of virtues of small weight , Claimed tow ' rds himself the exercise of great . He kept no reck ' ning with his sweets and sours ;—He ' d hold a sullen countenance for hours , And then , if pleased to cheer himself a space , Look for the immediate rapture in your face , And wonder that a cloud could still be there ,

    How small soever , when his own was fair . Yet such is conscience , so design d to keep . Stern , central watch , though all things else go sleep , And so much knowledge of one ' s self there lit * Cored , after all , in our complacencies , That no suspicion would have touched him more ,

    Than that of wanting on the gen ' rous score : He wQjild have whelmed you with a weight of scorn , Been proud at eve , inflexible at morn , In short , ill-temper ' d for a week to come , And all to strike that desp ' rate error dumb . Taste had he , in a word > for high-turn * d merit ,

    But not the patience , nor the genial spirit ; And so he made , ' twixt virtue and defect , A sort of fierce demand on your respect . Which , if assisted by his high degree , It gave him , in some eyes , a dignityy And struck a meaner deference in the many , Left him at last unloveable with any . —p , 40 ~ 42 .

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    169 The Poetical fFbrk * of Leigh Hunt .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1833, page 182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2610/page/38/