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    Sweet offspring of the earth ! I'll teach my heart thy mirth , Even tho' it be But a summer dream of joy , Which winter will destroy , As it will thee .

    Yet will I strive to keep , In my bosom buried deep , Your fragrant bloom ; And memory shall raise Thoughts of these sunny days Mid hours of gloom . Kathleen

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    896 The Seven Temptations

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    ' It is necessary for the acquisition of that charity , which is the soul of Christianity , for us to descend into the depths of our own nature ; to put ourselves into many imaginary and untried situations , that We may enable ourselves to form some tolerable notion how we might be affected by them ; how far we might be tempted—how far deceived—how far we might have occasion to lament the evil power of circumstances , to

    weep over our own weakness , and pray for the pardon of our crimes ; that , having raised up thi « vivid perception of what we might do , suffer , and become , we may apply the rule to our fellows , and cease to be astonished in some degree at the shapes of atrocity into which some of them are transformed ; and learn to bear with others as brethren , who have been tried tenfold beyond our own experience , or perhaps our strength . '—Preface .

    Such is the truly moral and religious purpose-which the writer of this volume contemplates , and which she has pursued by such means as may probably at first sight startle many of her admirers , but which the perusal has convinced us are judiciously adopted . It is but a few years since a quaker poet was spoken of as a

    phenomenon ; we have here the more extraordinary spectacle , (and that too realized by a woman , of a quaker dramatist . There is no courage like that of the c wiscjorn * which is pure and gentle . ' It is liable to no failure which can "be disgraceful ; and the success of its experiment is as beneficent as it is honourable .

    ' Achzib the liar / a demon envious of the honours awarded in the satanic empire to some of his fellows for their success in seducing mankind to sin , ascends to earth with the determination of obtaining similar distinction for himself ; for which purpose he selects seven human beings , to tempt according to their several natures , and stakes his claim on the result showing the superior power of evil over good . Each of these temptations is the subject of a drama , the continuation and conclusion of the allegory linking them together , and giving the plan its unity . * By Mary Howitt * London : Btntley , 3834 ,

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    THE SEVEN TEMPTATIONS . *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/14/