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CRITICAL NOTICES.
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men to be tried for their lives to-day , into the hands of the very men who were fighting against them yesterday , and who come fresh from the excited passions of a life-and-death struggle , to judge people who have been attempting to kill them—is so dreadful a principle , that no person of common justice or common feeline should on any human consideration vote for a bill containing : such a provision .
m 20 th June . The Beer Bill . —This odious measure has passed through the committee : and the meritorious efforts of Mr . Warburton to obtain the omission of one of its worst clauses , that which prohibits beer from being sold to be drunk on the premises , have been unsuccessful . It is some satisfaction to think that the tyrannical purpose will be easily frustrated , as the beer will he sold in one house , and drank in another . The Act , however ,
will remain a memorable example of the spirit of our legislature ; which , with all its pretended regard for vested interests , when they are the interests of persons who have an interest in those two houses , will have deliberately sanctioned a more extensive confiscation of vested interests than has almost ever , within our recollection , been deliberately and undisguisedly propounded in a bill introduced into Parliament . * A .
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Pfalip van Artevelde . A Dramatic Romance . By Henry Taylor . 2 vols . Two volumes of poetry , of real dramatic poetry , with a beautiful lyric into the bargain , and a preface of criticism , are a present to the public which deserves acknowledgment . There is no occasion for alarm at the length ; these two plays , or two parts of one play , are not intended for representation , and no reader , with any philosophy or feeling in
him , will find them long . The hero is an insurgent chieftain , called by the citizens of Ghent from a studious and contemplative life to fill that perilous post ; and the two dramas exhibit his success , and his destruction . The tale is founded on Froissart ; and the time , the commencement of the fifteenth century . The author has availed himself of the points of similarity between the then state of society and the present , and made political as well as poetical use of the great and enduring
contest between the few and the many . Not that he writes like a partizan ; he is not one ; and has so much genuine dramatic genius as to practise with facility its universality of identification . He reads bis moral lessons fairly , both to the admirers of aristocracy and the votaries of revolution . Many lines might be quoted because they ought to
become maxims , and many passages because they are pictures . Several scenes would be effective on the stage ; especially that in which Elena is found by the corpse of Artevelde . Others have a contemplative character , which endears them for a quiet perusal ; and a portion of one of these , out of very many passages which it would be a pleasure to transcribe , is all we can make room for .
* Artevelde , Am I in life ' s embellishments so rich , In pleasures so redundant , as to wish The chiefest one away ? " No , fairest friend ; Mine eyes have travelled this horizon round , ? Two other notes on subjecti not of temporary intoreit are postponed to next month *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 528, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/68/
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