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you ? let down the portcullis of your throat that the melody may not escape till my request has furnished it with a passport ; meanwhile , declare you are grateful to me for reading to you sorne book which you don ' t wish to hear . ' This is all quite contrary to the principles on which the New Adult Pestalozziari
Kent and Surrey Union Education Company is to be established . Read , if you like , sir ; but , in spite of your ' due emphasis and discretion , ' I am off to court the cuckoo , or run a race with the dog . I shall read myself , presently ; under the tree yonder ; it does my lungs good , and my heart too ; and then you may run if you like . c Allow me to hand you to the instrument / Not she ^ indeed ; you never heard such singing after that sort of prologuing
and pantomiming . How it bubbles up from amongst the trees , here and there , by fits and snatches , clear as the blackbird ' s song , and varied as the nightingale ' s . ' Now , that ' s what I call melody ; I do , indeed . ' You are right , sir ; more right than you know of ; for you did not see Purcell bending from above to listen , nor hear him ask Shakspeare what he had sent Ariel down for .
Away ! whither ? not now to the churchyard , though that is a place for sunset , a beautiful and touching place at sunset . What a light and gay , an airy and joyous looking fringe of trees and shrubs it has ; the delicate lilac , and the glaring laburnum , and the pale guelder rose ; and how the rays of the sun ,, as he gives them his last blithe blink and smile from the summit of the hill .
get entangled among the leaves and boughs and pendent blossoms , and linger and sparkle there ; and how the birds all carol above , and the grasshoppers chirp below ; and in the ' centre of the glittering ring ' stands that huge and ancient yew , overshadowing the graves with its broad , dark , massy foliage , the branches spread
out as the wings of Azrael , and its vast , hollow , mouldering trunk standing as if in the strength of some mysterious , anti-vital principle , a solemn image of death in the midst of life . That is a shade to sleep under , soundly and peacefully . But not thither now ; this way ; here , along the common ,
* grassy , wild , and bare , Wide , wild , and open to the air . ' Turn not this way towards the bridge that swings aloft over the deep lane , like the back scene of a melo-drama when the catastrophe is coming ; nor that way towards where the hill makes a bold , steep , semicircular promontory , where you stand , as on the
quarter-deck of a gigantic ship , and look down on the wide oceanvalley sending up a mimic ripple from its wavy woods : but hold on , on , till the surface begins to break , toss , and tumble about , and the path narrows and winds round ' the side of the hill , and you are in Scotland , are you not ?—for this is fairly a pass ; not Ktlliecrankie or Gletico , indeed ; any more than we are
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Local Logic . 423
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 423, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/63/
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