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. They « y , 4 hy , w « wk 4 eth perish with Ijby Ufo I How many a mute memorial is enshrined Far from the external reach of worldly strife Witliin the silent sanctuary of the mind ! Life after life thy rnemoried power shall find A never-ending spiritual employ , With subtle influence still its course to wind
A pure increasing rivulet of joy To swell the sea of mind , which time can ne ' er destroy ! S . Y .
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Poetical painters are there who can create scenery out of any country ; and countries of scenery are there which may almost realize the converse proposition , and create poetical painters out of any body : it is the harder task of the ^ two , for Nature never spoils a land as men spoil themselves ; and the most unsightly
and incorrigible dead flats are those of humanity . * So there are large deductions from the generality of the proposition : but . it has some truth in it , nevertheless ; and we can only wish it had more . If it be not universal , we submit that it deserves to be so , and that is merit of no common order . Very few regions can there be on the face of the earth where it has a better chance of
holding good than in Scotland , which Country is beneficently placed next door to England , steam having opened the portal , not only that painters may make the one atid be m&de by the other , but that the proper proportion of poetical and pictorial influence may from time to time overflow the meadow land and arable soil of our commercial and busy population . And we do believe that much good is done and doing by the wonderful
facilities afforded of late years for exchanging , within three or four days , the dome of St . Paul ' s for the top of Ben Lomond , Kingstreet for Killicrankie , and Eel-pie Island for Staflfa and Iona . The suffocated politician at the City of London Tavern , in a crowded meeting on the state of the nation , while he ejaculates ' what a pass we are come to V is calmed and brightened by a
flitting vision of the Pass of Qlencoe in its glory , where he uttered the very same exclamation . In many a back parlour of Watlingstreet or Thames-street a glass of whisky is a more spiritual thing for ever after , and hands shake the heartier for ' auld lang syne . ' Fan-en feels the benefit in a double encore of * Green grow the rashes , Of and the plaudit * of the pit are partly prompted by associations of Ayrshire . For a town-tradesman to have traversed the moors is mental gravy to his grouse as long as he lives ; it elevates his memory to hare met with mountains ; and enlarges ^ M-eagrmrad by # r twdfff tb » wuttSSSedlrectC ^^ r f jtilwit Wkttli London : O . Virtue , Iry Lan * . * - " ¦ ¦ ** " * ' < •* •» ' *•> ' ? '
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SKETCHES OF SCOTLAND . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 750, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/58/
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