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changed position in relation to the Commons , by the creation of Peers for life , and by allowing Peers to un-lord themselves for the purpose of sitting in the Lower , or rather the then Upper House .
Who is there , even among Tories , not blinded by faction or ambition , who does not anxiously wish that it were possible to retain Lord Sp encer in that House in which his influence was so powerful and so beneficial ? or to restore Lord Brougham to the field in which he was so long the champion of improvement ?
We will only add , that the recent elections have added ample proof to the indications which before existed of the imperfections of the Reform Act in some important points , and of the necessity of averting the formation of a number of venal boroughs , and of securing even the degree of representation which it was intended to bestow , by the speedy extension of the suffrage , the repeal of the Septennial Act , and the adoption of Vote by Ballot .
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Charles Cowden Clarke deserves well of his country . His merit is manifold . It should be recognised the more readily for two reasons : first , its humble pretensions and unobtrusive character ; and , secondly , its relation to the most interesting portion of society , and also the most improvable , —the young * . He is great with little folks , and will rise with the rising generation . On the cricket-ground he is potential , and his laws are obeyed by the boy with the bat , who searches the < Young Cricketer ' s Tutor ' for statute , precedent , and pattern . And he is not less grand in the garden . We should wish that his Adam' were an annual , but that the book is perennial . What an eloquent homily it is on the duty and delight of digging ! Wordsworth consecrates an ode to the ' Spade with which Wilkinson hath tilled his lands ;' but , begging Wilkinson ' s pardon , and Wordsworth ' too , we have much more reverence for Adam ' s hoe . It is more influential , more prolific , a self-multiplying machine , a very polypus of a hoe ,
and has produced its like in the hands of hundreds of juvenile cultivators . Honour to the man who makes boys and girls love flowers , teaches them to sow with success , gives them a turn for transplanting , disposes them to haunt the hedges , and make botanizing forays in the fields , and opens their eyes and hearts to nature ' s loveliness ! The descriptions in the work we refer to , show how much Mr . Clarke is at home when he is abroad . Hut
look within doors , and you will find him quite a native in the nursery . Anterior to the «* ge for spade or bat , the little things have head enough for ' The Tales from Chaucer . ' And for the
* The Riches of Chaucer ; with Explanatory Notes , and a Memoir of the Poet . By Charles Cowden Clarke . Two Volumes . ¦
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* 78 The Riches of Chaucer .
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THE RICHES OF CHAUCER . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/78/
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