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Harold was the natural son « rf the doctor , who had poisoned hife wife for some supposed utikindiiess to the bastard boy . Alas ! the only poisoners had been Mrs . Drenrran ,, and the circumstances which made her what she was . How fatal is such moral poison , especially when administered in that plastic time
when the character is forming , Harold sufficiently exhibited ; for , though his faults became modified and veiled as he advanced to manhood , he never bore the character of which he was originally capable . His sorrowing and disappointed friend attributed , not t © early corruption , but to inherent degeneracy , the dereliction of
his conduct ; because Dr . Drennan had no conception of the power of female influence , interwoven , as it is into the very texture of every feeling and habit of youth . Thus fatal to an excellent man arid a promising child , was one narrow ignorant woman ,, whose strong energies , properly enlarged and directed , might have made her as beneficial as she was baneful . M . L . G .
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MUSICAL COMMENTARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE LATE CHABLES LAMB .
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' What !* exclaims the reader , < musical notices from him who confessedly had no ear ; who ever eschewed music , and all that thereunto appertained ! Come , this is a hoax . ' No , unbelieving Christian , it is no hoa * : the lines are veritable Elian . The circumstances , which gave rise to this extraordinary production w ^ re as fallows : —Lamb , among his miscellaneous literature , had chanced upon Burney ' s History of Music , which , as was his wont \ x \ all cases , he read carefully through , and thus , though as earless , and as disinclined as ever to devote himself to the tuneful goddess , his memory became involuntarily stored with the names and qualities of all who , since Music , heavenly maid , was young , * have knelt at her shrine . This impersonal knowledge he a few days after-TY&rds shawered , with ludicrously astounding effect , upon his frieind Ayrt on , himself a learned professor of the divine art , and wfao , like thee , gentle reader , had no conception that Elia knew
aught of the matter . Delighted , however , to find ( as he supposed ) in his and our dear friend so distinguished an amateur , | ie untreated from Lamb , for private edification and entertain-Hient , h ** Qpiw W 8 as to . the ' great masters' of music , w ^ iich next < 3 ay gave rise to the following ;
Some cry up Haydn , some Mozart , Just as the whim ' bites ; for my part , I do not ca , re a farthing candle For either of them , or for Handel . Cannot a majn live free , and ea ^ y , l # ilk < wfc a ^ wMiyjipg JP ^ rg ^ le ^ i ?
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S 8 S Musical Commentaries b& ike tote € 9 iarles Lamb .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/10/
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