On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    theory corresponds * with the event . Her frame sinks under the pressure of mental agony , while the more robust constitution of M acbeth weathers the storm , and holds out to the end , through tremendous exertions . We can only quote a brief portion of this dissertation , which is entirely creditable to the judgment , taste , and intellect of the writer , with the exception of the unfounded fancy of Lady Macbeth ' s also seeing the ghost of Banquo at the banquet . How beautiful is the almost filial expression of her

    hope of the approval of the great bard . It seems as if the writer realized the conscious presence of his spirit , and in unaffected humility sought his sanction , as would a child that of a departed

    parent and g uide . The Third Act . —The golden round of royalty now crowns her brow , and royal robes enfold her form ; but the peace that passeth all understanding is lost to her for ever , and the worm that never dies already gnaws her heart .

    ' " Nought ' s had—all ' s spent , Where our desire is had without content . 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy ,-Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy . " ' Under the impression of her present wretchedness , I , from tins moment , have always assumed the dejection of countenance and manners which I thought accordant to such a state of mind ; and , though the

    author of this sublime composition has not , it must be acknowledged , given any direction whatever to authorize this assumption , yet I venture iohope that he would not have disapproved of it . It is evident , indeed , by her conduct in the scene which succeeds the mournful soliloquy , that she is no longer the presumptuous , the determined creature that she was before the assassination of the king : for instance , on the approach of her husband , we behold for the first time striking indications of

    sensibility , nay , tenderness and sympathy ; and I think this conduct is nobly followed up by her during the whole of their subsequent eventful intercourse . It is evident , I think , that the sad and new experience of affliction has subdued the insolence of her pride , and the violence of her will ; for she now comes to seek him out , that she may , at least , participate his misery . She knows , by her own woful experience , the torment which he undergoes , and endeavours to alleviate his sufferings bv the following inefficient reasonings : —

    * " How now , my lord ? Why do you keep alone , Of sorriest fancies your companions making ? Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on . Things without all remedy Should be without regard . What ' s clone , is done /* 4 from her former habits of reproach and contemptuous taunting , you perceive that she now listens to his complaints with sympathizing feelings ; and , so far from adding to the weight of his affliction the burthen of her own , she endeavours to conceal it from him with the

    rooat delicate and unremitting attention . But it is in vain ; as we may observe in his beautiful and mournful dialogue with the physician on the subject of his cureless malady . "Canst , thou not minister to a mind

    Untitled Article

    CampbelftrTAfe of Mis . Sid&inu . 543

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 545, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/15/