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whether we shall go on a generation with you ^ but with him it . was impossible ^ it was a sell , ' the soul of tne peers was lost in the pension list . Now for knowledge and the middle orders . I wish I had known you younger , Tomkins ; you are now so fixed in the ways of trade ,, I fear you will sell your vote , or edit a aewspaper . Apropos ;—have we not an Aristocracy of the press ? We talk of the republic of letters , but the stamps and other duties ( especially expensive puffs ') have made that a monopoly . I wish , Tomkins , you liked Milton , ( except his Heaven and Hell , ) and
Cowley , ( except all his poetry , ) and Byron , except his notes and (innuendoes , and Scripture read backwards , and Shakspeare altogether , and— But you only read the Times / and the Sunday paper , the ' clever' Age . You are not worth canvassing ; you are not fit to vote ; you are a tyrant at home , and a cat ' s-paw in Merchant Tailors' Hall ; you are on the Clapham stage a cloud or a bore ; in the coffee-room a twaddler ; in the market a
monopolist ; in the counting-house a trickster ; in the hiring of labour an extortioner ; in the sale of commodities— I would sooner thresh acorns than have you to cater for me ; I would sooner live in the woods than have you for a neighbour . Ami abusing the middle orders?—no ; only the generation that have the patrimony catered to them bv Pitt , and that would apply to Peel for a renewal
of the Treasury custom , and another loan to be funded . Reform , Reform ! Dare you echo me ? Know thyself , Tomkins , and become a good citizen ; in the mean time your onl y safety is ift ultraliberal institutions ; your journeymen will be the honester voters ; it is of that class come soldiers who fight while you snore , arid sailors who reef while you adjust the nightcap ; thou art a younger brother of the Pharisee ; truth is with the humble fishermen ; go , read and consider , or England may rue it .
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I . The joy for ever' of a beauteous thin g Is effluent from its beauty ' s memory : lUelf and all its loveliness take wing , And only fixed in the thoughts they lie , A worshipped , but unseen , Divinity , Like God himself ! I never shall forget That lucent face , but for a moment met : Itself and all its loveliness must die In death , or deathward life ' s maturity ;
But , ever youn g and beauteous , in my dreaming It shall contend for immortality , Till o er my dust the grass and flowers are teeming : Nor perish then , if augbt in this true pagt May feed a drtam thereof from age ? to ago .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 510, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/10/
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