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    portrayed with inspiration derived , we can imagine , from the *¦ Ancient Mariner / The miser of the preceding tale grows more and more callous with every crime , till his heart is hard as the nether millstone ; but the pirate has feelings which struggle the more , the deeper he plunges , until he is led forth to execution in all the agonies of remorse without hope .

    The fourth drama , ' The Old Man / is of a more gentle and touching character . The trial is to make a paralytic old man , who ia ever repining at the loss of his youth and strength forfeit his hope of heaven by usin g unhallowed rtieans for their renewal . The proposition recovers his mind to a sense of the duty of resignation to the appointments of heaven .

    ' Raymond * depicts the fatal effects of pleasure and unrestrained self-indulgence on a youthful mind full of high aspirations and susceptibility to beauty , but destitute of the energy which moral discipline should have imparted . We extract tne opening soliloquy : —

    ' How full of joy is life ! All things are made For one great scheme of bliss—all things are good ,

    Aa at the first when God pronounced them so : The broad sun pouring down upon the earth His bright effulgence ; every lighted dew-drop Which glitters with the diamond * many rays ; These flowers which gem the coronal of earth ; Those larks , the soaring minstrels of the sky ;

    Clear waters leaping like a glad existence ; Forests and distant hill * , and low green valleys , And feeding flocks , and little hamlet homes , All , a ) l are good—all , all are beautiful ! Existence is a joy ! I walk , I leap In that exuberant consciousness of life

    Which nerves my limbs and makes all action pleasure The vigour of strong life is in my frame As pinions to the eagle : and my soul la as a winged angel , soaring up In its full joy unto the heaven of heavens ; Tliank God for life , and for the spirit which gives The fullness of enjoyment unto life !

    All that the soul desire * of good and fair Will I possess ; knowledge that elevates And that refines ; and high philosophy , Which wakes the godlike principle in man ; And in the founts of sacred poesy

    I will baptize my spirit , and drink deep Of its pure living waters ; and sweet music Shall minister to me , like heavenly spirits Calling me upwards to sublimer worlds ! All that is beautiful in art and nature—Fair forms in sculptured marble , and the works

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 398, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/16/