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* THH ^^ A ^ aSR S 5 ONQ . 7 When Bill left Mary , ofer tbeaeas He sailed so long / , aivJ sailed ft a far , That not a sixpenace he could squeeze Between his nose and yonder star .
* But o ' er the mast , that had got fast Hook ' d on the moon ' s depending horn , He heard strange voices in the hlast Pronounce his name with boisterous scorn
' So westward up he looked , and lo ! The blue of heaven turned sickly pale , And , west by north , he heard and saw Nine comets , all tied tail to tail .
' And they all laughed , and every one , Sing , * Will , go home , go home for shame , For Matthew Hall , a tailor , ' s gone tTo woo and wed thy sulky dame . *
4 Then all the comets loos'd their tails , While William shed the briny tear , Unhooked his mast , let drop his sails , And tacked for Goole , to bless thee h ^ re ! ' p . 217 . There are two dramatic compositions in this volume , which have in them much of poetry and of passion ; yet we doubt the author ' s vacation to the drama . The transmigration of souls is more easily believed in than practised ; and the difficulty is not vanquish able in exact proportion to the general power of the poetic spirit . It is in lyric poetry that Elliott breathes ; and while he may , doubtless , overcome the difficulties of the drama , it is for more lyrics that we , and the world , are longing .
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Heinrich Stilling . Part I . His Childhood , Youthful Years , and Wanderings . Translated from the German of Johann Heinrich Jun ^ --Stilling . By Samuel Jackson . 1835 .
We are told that in Germany the autobiography of Stilling is 'read by all ranks , from the palace to the cottage . ' Heartily do we wish that it were likely to be so here , for the book is one of that species , the enjoyment of which both implies and produces good in the reader . It resembles those simple scenes in nature , the charm of which is sent home to the heart by the universal power of nature , and fixes itself there more firmly than can all the violence of torrent , precipice , and tempest . We
are too busy in England for such books as this . Give us politics , history , and travels ; let us see man as he is , viz ., in a btiatle , the external man in the whirl of his social movements ; that is something to the purpose , life ' s reality , and none of your German dreaminess . Or let ua have sound pijactipal p $ i $ nee , which will tu , rn to ascptuU ip JManufailure , trade , or commerce , that is useful l ^ nQwle ^ e ^ . O ^ ' if . ' , * f | Q , w ? , rfejie £ be jieeded for the jaded mind , serve up the Cpar ^ Q s ^ tn ujus of exag <* gelHUKT Jcti 6 n _ kr > a ^ eposteriiuS ^ mel ^ mm ^ ,: ' AJlj . gRft m ^ mfr&M warned that this is no book for them . Thfty arfc not initiated , Hwe may
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 353, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/61/
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