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VARIORUM NOTES ON THE NEWSPAPERS.
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and carry it with us and treasure it up , and make it useful , and not quarrel with it , because we may think that a time will come , when the child must cease to care nothing * at all about the lookingglass which hung in a dark corner in his little hut ; for after that season must come another ,, when that inner gazing shall have ceasedand the p-lass have done its dutv .
, ' And the child was become happy and joyful , and breathed freely again , and thought no more of returning to his hut , for he saw that nothing returned inwards , but rather that all strove outwards into the free air ; the rosy apple-blossoms from their narrow buds , and the gurgling notes from the narrow breast of the lark . The germs burst open the folding doors of the seeds , and broke through the heavy pressure of the earth in order to get at the light ; the grasses tore asunder their bands , and their slender blades sprung upwards . Even the rocks were become
gentle , and allowed little mosses to peep out from their sides , as a sign that they would not remain impenetrably closed for ever . And the flowers sent out colour and fragrance into the whole wodd , for they kept not their best for themselves , but would imitate the sun and the stars , which poured their warmth and radiance over the spring * . And many a little gnat and beetle burst the narrow cell in which it was enclosed , and crept out slowly , and , half asleep , unfolded , and shook its tender wings , and soon gained strength , and flew off to untried delights . And as the butterflies came forth from their chrysalids in all their gaiety and splendour , so did every humble and suppressed aspiration and hope free itself , and boldly launch into the open and flowing sea of spring . '—p . 121—123 .
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Macready ' s Coriolanus . —If the reader go to see this drama acted , it is very likely that he will carry with him his recollections of the great Kemblein the chief character . I would ask such an auditor to sit patiently , if he go to see Macready , till the third act , for till then the reflections of his memory will flit across his thoughts and incline him to comparisons which may not induce him to yield the palm of superiority , nor , perhaps , the meed of equality , to Macready . I am here supposing the auditor neither to have studied the character deeply , nor read it intently , independent of the opinions which he has imbibed from others . The man who has so read and so studied , before the end of the second act , will think as I did
on seeing Macready on Monday evening , Dec . 16 , though , with myself , till then the visions of Kemble repeatedly intruded ; and I had , for many years , thought that with his retirement Coriolanus was banished from the stage and hopeless of return . Such is not my thought now , as I know that he is not only restored , but lives with more truth and vigour than ever in Macready . There were many glorious and superior touches in the earlier scenes that would shake the faith of any thinking auditor ; for instance , when the expostulation of Menenius touches him to unbending from his angry scorn of the citizens , in solicitation of their votes , his reply i What must I say ? I pray sir—Plague upon ' t i I cannot bring My touguo to such a pace—Look , sir , my wounds / &c .
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76 Notes on the Newspapers .
Variorum Notes On The Newspapers.
VARIORUM NOTES ON THE NEWSPAPERS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1834, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2629/page/78/
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