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indicated at the commencement . In man y iostancteSy too , there is an exquisite adaptation of metaphorical illustration io sentiment and character ; so exquisite , that we cannot imaging how a few violations of this harmony which occur , should hkvfc escaped the
author ' s correction or ever have flowed from his pen at all . The ftrgumept in the first part of the poem , and some subsequent passages , would bear condensation ; and be improved , even in clearness , by the avoidance of an amplification and repetition , which is rhetorical rather than poetical .
Out task has been performed rather as expositors than as judges . To take up a book , and that book a poem , with real mental matter in it , is a novelty which calls more for announcement than for criticism . Would that we had ofteaer occasion for the implied praise and admiration which belong to the record of such a fact . But few writers will aspire to earn it , so long as the many , who read only to be passively amused , merely gaze on
their voluifres with drowsy attention and ' lack-lustre eye / waiting for the expected excitement . Yet , though possessing little of that species of stimulus which gains sudden popularity , there is abundance of a higher and stronger stimulus in this poem . We now leave it to speak for itself , and fancy it coming into the world , as Brutus did into the rostrum , with the appeal , € Gensure me in your judgments ; and awake your senses that you may the better judge /
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London cmd tk& Cockneys . ;^ W .
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The denizens of London haye , I think , been somewhat unfairly treated by divers and sundry writers on the other side of the Tweed . ' Cockney' and the ' Cockney School' have become terms of reproach ; and we , whether the veritable natives of Cockaigne , or only the dwellers therein or thereabouts , are miarepresented as
being a people destitute of all poetioal feeling , if not even of ratiocinative capability . Hear this pattently ^ ho se may who are so minded ! but I , for oiie , will taot . I am not , Indeed , a native of Cockneydom , but I like it , and I am almost a cockney by forceof residence . And where , I pray , is the stigfria ? A fine thing , truly , to taunt us for , that we live in the very centre of wealth , taste , and civilisation ; in the very centre ' of inaay-colottred life ,
and of art , soience , and literature ! Cockney , quoth * I and wherefore not r Plague upon the faint * hearted ones who hfcre allowed the term not only to stick to them like a burp , butito stin g them like a scorpion into the bargain ! > >;! i Harnpstead Heath , I am very ready to > admit , is not * o tfftd or * o extensive as the Highlands of Scotlmdd -y : mmki ¦ I ' sard e ^ aadly r ealty * to aUJDfW tbrnt Highg&te Httl is innocent of ;* h * magmftttot
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LONDON AND 'THE COCKNEYS . '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 72, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/35/
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