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still to be done , for whom every thing has fitst to be undone ; among whom opinion and conscience and habit , instead of doing , as with us , much more for the ends of government than government itself , are more obstacles than helps ; a people whose
national character has run wild , and in many of its most important elements has yet to be created ; and , to crown all , who have ( and no wonder if they have ) the strongest prejudices against the only rulers from whom any kind of good government , of which in their present state they are susceptible , can easily
come . * It will be far rather the good fortune of Ireland than our merit , if a connexion , hitherto so unprofitable to both countries , shall be able to subsist until a new wisdom shall arise in the councils of England , and the means of rendering our influence in Ireland a blessing to the Irish people shall be sought with sincerity , and with a determined purpose that when found they shall be
employed .
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The Revolutionary Epic . 375
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If c < Disraeli the Younger' * be a child of genius , he is a spoiled child , and must , we suppose , be allowed , or at any rate he seems disposed to take , the privileges with which that character has , from time immemorial , been invested . It is only a year ago since he proclaimed that the reign of rhyme was over , argued that metre was less meet than it used to be , declared himself
averse from all verse , and founded a new style of prose harmonics for the use of this , our new literary era . And now he comes forth with the commencement of a regular epic , to consist of we know not how many books of blanks , with all the customary paraphernalia , the established scenery and machinery , dresses , and decorations . He will go forward before us all , and he will go backward behind us all . But let us hear his own account of the matter .
* It was on the plains of Troy that I first conceived the idea of this work . Wandering over that illustrious scene , surrounded by the tombs of heroes , and by the confluence of poetic streams , my musing thoughts clustered round the memory of that immortal song to which all creeds and countries alike respond , which has vanquished chance , and defies time . Deeming myself , ( perchance too rashly , ) in that excited hour , a
poet , I cursed the destiny that had placed me in an age that boasted of being anti-poetical . And while my fancy thus struggled with my reason , it flashed across my mind , like the lightning which was then playing over Ida , that , in those great poems which rise , the pyramids of poetic art , amid the falling and the fading splendour of less creations , the poet hath ever embodied the spirit of his time . Thus , the most heroic inci-# ReTolutiwiary Bpick : the work of Diwaeli tl » youoger , —MoxoH .
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THE REVOLUTIONARY EPIC *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/63/
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