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We are not imputing to Miss Taylor these undesirable but not Tin natural adjuncts to her own true and lovely principle . We do not blame her for finding out , in the tale before us , so much of wisdom , gentleness , and goodness among Norman barons , Saxon churls , and Romish priests of the twelfth ' century ; yet the picture would have been not only more historically just but more efficient had the shadows been thrown in with a bolder hand . We are so
grateful to her for having discovered ( and she can plead history for most of it ) so much moral worth in that turbulent period , that we can only say to her and her personages , * indeed you are too good . We want a little of the then abounding villainy for a relief ; it would make the virtue stand out . But it is enough , perhaps , for our author to go steadily on , without modifications or qualifications , in that peculiar , beautiful , and useful work for
which she is constituted . The present volume is well entitled to a continuance of the approval which we bestowed on its predecessor , the ' Tales of the Saxons / This , and every thing which Miss Taylor writes , should be in every juvenile library . We see no occasion for minute criticism upon it ; it is enough to say , that the narrative and characters are exemplifications , level to a child ' s
capacity , of that peculiarity which it has been our object to indicate . Other exemplifications , adapted to mature minds , cultivated taste , and moral feeling , may be found in Miss Taylor ' s poetical productions . Many of these are scattered about in the annuals , and other periodical publications . They would make , if collected , a volume which few could read without being the better for it .
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816 Autobiography of Pel * Verjuice .
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PEL . VEKJUICE .
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CHAPTER VI . A light veil of mist rose from the sea , and curled over the adjacent rocks and verdure , as we rolled along on the graceful swell of the Atlantic billows , urged by the western wind , on a morning in July , 1807 ; and as the sun veered from his eastern rising towards the south , the duskiness , in which the brows of earth and the breast of the billows were enfolded , swept gradually off , and left each , all objects in distinctness of form , varying in their shape and position , as the ship advanced on , rested by , or
receded from them . There was on board , a quietness and order , which struck rue as in singular contrast with the usual noisy bustle of trimming sails ; the orders were given in a subdued tone , and the sailors spoke in whispers : even the bidding to me , to ' clap on there , ** was uttered as if there was a caution against disturbing some one , or something , with too loud a voice : and the ragged , wild , inhumanized group , which stood on the forecastle , in their visit to the air from their foul abode , turned from
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 816, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/12/
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