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many among them might say , ' And I have then no monument ! while the ghosts of melodramatic heroes would glance away behind the shelter of the tomb , conscious that it presented a nobler piece of work than they had themselves ever done . There is a tide running in my heart that would carry this paper too far out . I will conclude with William Howitt ' s words * " A day is certainly coming upon us when many old prejudices shall be thrown down ; when we shall work with purer hands and
simpler views ; when we shall feel it necessary to regard all men as
brothers , really made of one flesh , and ordained to one salvation , —not as mere machines to grow rich upon ; * * *
when it becomes a bounden duty to spread abroad better views of war and oaths , —to inspire more elevated and just views of the character , offices , and duties of Women . ' M . L . G .
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BV THE AUTHOR OF c SPIRIT OV PEERS AND PEOPLE . ' * [ A little book , under the title of' Spirit of Peers and People , ' was published some ten or twelve months since , which neither Radicals , Tories , ( except Christopher North , who , for a wonder , very wisely held his tongue , ) or Whigs , seemed rightly to understand . The author , simple man , thought it was plane enough in all conscience . The following Political Oratorio is an extract from a continuation of the same work , and the writer offers no apology to the readers of the Repository for its insertion , as they will find no difficulty at all in apprehending his full meaning . The Oratorio is supposed to be from the bat of Poet Clinker , a cricket player , who is characterised in the book already before the public , as the manful author of ' Corn-law JNinetails . ' ]
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A Pclitical Oratorio * 37
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A POLITICAL ORATORIO .
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Enter Mr . Clinker , as Prologue ; he is dressed as a cricketer ; with a large bat over his shoulder .
You see before you one of humble station , Clinker by name , poet by avocation ; I speak with many voices of the nation . Pardon this boast , my friends , for I have been An old political tourist , and have seen Sights of extensive want and misery , And heard men groaning like the hungry sea . I come to call your serious fix'd attention To much reality and small invention ; For you shall trace , in chorus long and short , Fac-similes of Satan at his sport With suffering humanity , and see , Whether in surplice black or white chant he , Mitre , or coronet , or herald ' s coat , That labour ' s not considered worth a groat ; And , in plain fact , a man who ' s robb'd of all Cannot be worth a coin , however small , And worth , moreover , changM in name should be : Riches coin man ' s respectability . itL •* -w- m
w » -w - " rr * * Effingharu Wilson , Royal Exchange .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/37/
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