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naturalized . We should like to have seen , traced by such a hand , some display of the ostentation , the servility , the want of sincerity , which are so rife in the world . A young clergyman , entangled into a profession for which he has no vocation , by the prospect of a benefice ; reciting prayers which he does not feel ,
and subscribing articles which he does not believe : or a young lawyer gradually disencumbering himself of political and personal veracity as he mounts the ladder of his profession ; would have been good subjects for the demon . Or , Achzib might have had interest enough to procure an official appointment for a patriot , only tolerably honest . There is nothing like bringing a moral lesson home to men ' s business and bosoms . This is what
the pulpit rarely does ; there seems an implied agreement between preachers and people that the peace is to be kept upon most of the real practical interests of morality ; but the press is less restricted , and our author shows no lack of courage . We must also object to the manner in which an alleged inconstancy of affection is set forth as a vice in the dramas of s The Pirate , ' and f Raymond . ' Both heroes are introduced to us as betrothed , and both fall in love afterwards . Very wrong , no doubt , if they could help it ; but as in both cases , according to Mary Howitt ' s own showing , it was scarcely possible to be avoided , she acts rather cruelly in predestinating them first to the offence and then to the punishment . It really seems to us that she has made Edah more loveable than Constance ,, and Clara than
Adeline . This counteracts her own purpose . The indictment and the evidence do not correspond . We doubt much whether the nominall y second love , in each case , be not really the first . But here was the author ' s difficulty . Unless the second were made attractive , the conduct of the hero would not have been
adequately motived . But in bestowing so much attractiveness and congeniality on the second , the first is reduced to a mere fancy . Had not previous long familiarity been supposed in the story , we should say that the real viciousness was in the betrothment ; or rather in the state of manners and customs which will not allow
either man or woman , boy or girl , any real opportunity of knowing a character until after they have pledged themselves always to prize it above all other characters , and not to see or feel that any diversity of it would have been more conducive to happiness . The results of this system probably influenced the writer ' s mind , althou gh she transferred them to parties supposed to be differently situated .
There is a richness in the occasional lyrics of this little volume which we must not forget to remark , and to illustrate by quotation . We do not meet with such songs every day . The sweetness of the first , the simplicity of the second , and the stern majesty of the third , of the three specimens which follow , show that
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The Seven Temptations . 401
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No . 90 . 2 F
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/19/
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