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    dtttis ; but amid the din I caught the indistinct twanging and crashing of rhiisical instruments , and looking , I saw , far beneath ittfc , near the foot of that magnanimous green curtain , some fifty amis jerking , and as many heads bobbing and rocking , with delirious earnestness and furious rapidity : there was a regiment of violins undergoing military torture at one and the same moment . This I afterwards learned was called the orchestra . There was a

    magical And mysterious influence in that indistinctness of sound * which grappled at my imagination , as the splashes of light , in measureless distance , in Martin ' s pictures , have since grappled it . At once , as if some spell had struck every heart , and bound mute and motionless every voice and limb , there was a dead stillness . This sudden and instant calming of the tempest was

    jiofcitively awful and sublime . I trembled : and noiselessly , grandly , and slowly the cloud of curtain rose up , up , and vanished . Then , oh , then ! on my enchanted eyes grew forth a magnificent palace , interminable in colonnades , and sacred with rtefcie 8 ses > stretching far , far , far into distance ; thence the mellow teffulgertce of an ethereal splendour subdued , drew the imagination on to an everlastingness of melodious and flowery elysium .

    Paint , canvass , and brushes , glory to ye ! In quick retrogression the eye stepped on the gorgery of the marble columns , and over their sculptured and trophied decorations , then took their impatient rest on the space between the stream of light on the verdant floor , and the nearest range of pillars . From opposite portals , two beings stepped lightly and gracefully forward , till they met . Not yet ; for the instant a sandalled ifoot from one was visible at

    the verge of the mystic recess , the mountain shook with the thander which at once , in one passionate and headlong peal , rattled and echoed , and rolled from its summit , sides , and hidden depths beneath me ! It was the collision of four thousand palms , many of them as horny as a horse ' s hoof , the beating oif so many feet with simultaneous , constantaneous strokes , and the volleying of two thousand voices in * Bravo ! bravo ! bravo ! ' all in of

    exa ^ t unison burst . What a moment was that for the young and beautiful stripling , a juvenile deity descended , who stood , and bent a graceful acceptance of the homage ! Again and again thte thunder rose and rolled , and again the boy-god bowed . Yfet was there Another being , an elder , still a youth , standing near him , retired back a step or two : he stood erect and beautiful ; hfc bowed not ; he felt the homage was not to him 5 he was

    deaf and absent to it all ; he was still Mr . King , spite of his sandals , tUriic , and peplum . The uproar melted into air ; the hist ratable of the thunder sank down , down , down from a murmur to 4 % igh ; then to unheard , suppressed breath ; deep , de 6 p > intense sttlfeess : and I heard the voice of that rare Creature , if creature fc WHW be , ttmsic&lly syllable forth the words , < Oh , Pylades 1 itfctt % lite Without a frietAd ? ' In that vast assekhblagft of men ,

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    478 My first Play .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1833, page 478, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2618/page/38/