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fit *« m > tattry ? P tifttdly think itoy coaldfeld t < heir « HHfe a * d £ * their * tftterit ioti While you shmrid p * & * * the lic ** f * ia tettfiig all the on dih of the season , all the failures in the East , all the f&& 3 b pas dfthe"We % t ; but you tnay find it otherwise ; try , see how many * -Ages' and - ' Satirists' come t& the post * office , and whither directed ; follow them , And take up the theme ; your coterie ttiay
be as clever and their consultations as dark as the conclave of tere # s that blfe . ckfctt yonder acres ; yet , whatever their mischief t 6 the etfffly they are catering for * their species , and therefore spefck rttdfe prafrtkbly thaii your neighbours , though they ortiy say ' cttW / Bat , should you escape these comers , ybu may find a cottager who hft& b §^ fi t 6 tfre top of the highest hill in the adjoining county , or d ¥ e * ftftacfr whd isr learned in the rise and fall df til&rxets , a l&ss
wfiti h * a daftced at the assize town , or a mechanic who has beeil on tramp , or a wooden leg which bespeaks a son of Neptutte or ofMaW ; Ofa , that oak of Dodona , whose fabled bird-tone was (! Of Mitfbfd tells tifc ) an Egyptian emigrant , was not mdre elbdttfcM'thdti are yon elm-boughs that screen the cottage eavea . How coziiy curls the blue smoke from amid the foliage ! I dftre si ^ 'tjwr Dodonse an oak w&s an old smoker tod While giviftg out hil Wondrous tales .
• Btit "ydu despise my attempt to read these elm fowtt classical . W ^ H 1 ' let the country spe ak to you itt its 6 wtl language bf Whispering bought , of sunny uplands , of dark deep st ^ e « rms , bf Mtterttits labour and unequivocal repose . Become & part 6 f the De&lf ! hfal society , a spirit of the grand and beautiful , ait et * hd of t \ x& fcrtlenoe that is eloquent as the mirror of heaven ; theti gtf itt ytHit fcti * ettgth to your hearth , and take down the old author frtrtn your shelvfefc ; yoti will meet him half Way in his opinions ,
fc-iiticiti&te Jtki ifttitgery , cling round his meaning with affection , and tfnedttate iipwi him in the hushing hour which precedes # gb 6 d night ;' thefl thy drMms will be holy , slumber light , and thy tttorrbW a tite ^ Wrth t > f creation , and of the creature who welcomes earth and bie&ttfe henven . But this will come Without recourse to bid
authors at midnight . Here a circle engaged in a talk of their <*» £# , W * dl % cus 3 ion of the game at bowls , or of the fighting at Wfcterldcr , may hold you long in digesting their opinions , or ana-\ ytitifr ttlfetr characters , while the evening clear-obscure shuts out all objects that excite the organs of sense ; in the stillness / the
Mtftltriijf of the gnat is loud in terrors , the waving of the boug h * * ft intrusion ; you turn your head , ( perhaps lit the warning of a gtokt % Wing , ) there , above the boughs that have lost their day * ntle in one sombre purpBtig blackness , the moon i * vfp , a wonder # f tfght > the seal upon the mmoii of coolness , the fountain of ray » tim ^ ihould thread the btedy dew *—or what you will , for * tou
ttflrt ' frtmr the- long twilight a * if ttiefte gentle beam * and that tBvw 4 ^ **«* tf trangfe and new , atid yew a * e d # af « ay # ur neigh b < mf , * nri his mafkfts , or hb po \ rikm rdo y ^ u Aot bltest the out *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 594, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/30/
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