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the Dissenters , like the Church , follow their fathers in these mat- * ters , and with about as much reason . Mrs . Barbauld , some forty years ago , sketched a rational plan of public worship , and it is yet a vision . Why might not sacred music be so adapted and arranged as to allow that combination of its highest strains with the frequent burst of choral voices , which would produce the finest
of all effects ? But we fear it is only lost labour to write on this subject . At any rate let all , Churchmen and Dissenters , Catholics and Protestants , who hold art valuable , and music the language of heaven ; who have taste to appreciate and means to encourage the labours of genius , patronize this undertaking , and strengthen the Editor for more . Something ought to be done for music ; for its rank as an art and its influence on public taste and
manners ; while , besides all that is mechanically excellent , we have those higher attributes of mind connected with it , which belong to the correct science and large attainment of Edward Taylor , the
sound judgment and poetical feeling of Vincent Novello , and the philosophical intelligence of William Ayrton , They should head a movement party in harmonics , and stop short of nothing but thorough reformation , or glorious revolution .
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If any one were to visit the grand and splendid ruins of abbeys , castles , and cathedrals gracing Bolton , Kirkstall , Melrose , and other spots in the United Kingdom , he would be pronounced , without hesitation , destitute of all taste , dead to all romantic associations , and totally insensible of the beauty and the picturesque
effect which these ruins give to the sequestered scenes where they are religiously preserved , if he regretted that they were left in their ruined grandeur merely to grace a scene , where some snug habitation or some useful manufactory might be constructed of the materials . But if the Duke of Devonshire , or any other noble proprietor , were to get an Act of Parliament passed to
compel the gentleman to reside in one of these ruins , or the tradesman to carry on his handicraft within their shattered walls , or even the poor to congregate and dwell within their ample space , then it would be no impeachment of their taste , if they were not satisfied that here and there a creature appeared in the freize or the entablature like to nothing in heaven or earth , Nthat the
well-proportioned arches and columns united symmetry and g race , that the shattered and ivy-mantled walls and the mouldering heaps within and without , read an impressive lesson on the frailty of man ' s works , or told a tale of other times , or even gave a bewitching enchantment to the solitude which they adorned . It would not remove their discontent , and no man could think of blaming the dissatisfaction they felt , if the same noble personage , in the plenitude of bis influence , should get a
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THE LITURGY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1833, page 297, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2614/page/9/
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