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It is not our present purpose to attempt finy analysis of the characteristic inerits of the prince of our living novelists . We hope to take some occasion to do so ere lon £ . All that the reader must expect of us now , is a brief account of a work which is certainly not inferior to any of its predecessors , either in conception , execution , or in the tone of sentiment by which it is pervaded .
Mr . Bulwer lias kept very closel y to Jiistpry ; the circumstances and the catastrophe of ljjs novej are all to be found in Gibbon and Sismondi . lie has indeed giveu to Itienzi a nobleminded wife and an interesting" sister , bptb very beautiful creations , but neither of them influencing ljifc fiction ^ or his fate in any degree . Tlu » novelist differ * from modern historians as to the character and motives of Inn hero ; and whoever has been dissatisfied with the cold sneer of Gibbon , as he recounts the mighty revolution worked by one man , yet blarney that man as the cause of the wreck which ensued , will be pleased to find
a . in fiction what will appear to him a more just smd philosophical view of the proyress of events . Sucli a mind will be disposed to ii ^ ree with Mr , IJulvver , that tlie moral to be learned from the fate of IMeutti is not , the common aj ) J Jjjaeknied one , of a warning against ainbition and pritjp , but the important truth that , a people lnufct tfUtft , not tQ individunlnf , but themselves ; that there is no sudden leap frtnil s ^ rvjtudo to liberty ;
* Kienzi , the L ^ tft of the TnUuuetf . Jiy t \ ia Author of j ^ ggem * AfHIU > i- !* wt Days of Pompeii , &t . &o . ^ \' o \ x . tiwidtsrB end UU ^ y .
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For as I he , smiled on , full fed With unexhausted blessedness ,- — I gaze below on Hell ' s fierce bed , And those its waves of flame oppress , Swarming in ghastly wretchedness , Whose like on earth aspired to be One altar-smoke , —so pure !—to vvjn If not love like Gods love to me , At least to keep his anger in . . . And all their striving turned to sin !
Priest , doctor , hermit , monk grown white With prayer : the broken hearted nun , The martyr , the wan accolyte , The incense-swinging child . . . undone Before God fashioned star or sun ! God—whom I prajse . . . how could I praise If such as I might understand ,
Make out , and reikon on his ways , And bargain for his love , and stand , Paying a price , at his right-hand ? Z .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 46, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/46/
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