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that burst below and around , her face and outstretched arms alone visible ! Ere yet the sound of that thrilling cry passed from the air , down with a mighty crash thundered that whole win « r of the Capitol , a blackened and smouldering mass /'—vol . iii . p . 33 $ .
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ON THE EXCLUSIVE AGITATION OP PEERAGE REFORM . TO DANIEL O'CONNELL , ESQ . M . P . If you feel anything of the ambition of the late Emperor of Russia to see your name in the English newspapers ,
it must be abundantly gratified . One can scarcely see any thing else . Whig or Tory , morning or evening , dailj or weekly , they all exhibit the ceaseless march of columns after columns upon O'Connell . You are the pivot of our politics . All publications , from octavo "Vindications of the Constitution " to unstamped fly-leaves of Republicanism ; all speeches at meetings , whether convivial , electoral , agricultural , or sacerdotal , from Land ' s End to John O'Groat ' s ; are full , fur praise or vituperation , of the great Irishman . The press , the platform ,
and the presbytery , celebrate " Him first , Him last , Him midst , and without end /'
I need not tell you that the smallest portion of this celebrity , of this absorbing attention , is owing to jour character , powers , and deserts . Addressing you as I bow do under public cognizance , I am at liberty to speak freely of yourself to yourself , and in a manner which might bear the imputation , perhaps of * gross rudeness , perhaps of gross flattery , were it adopted in person ; , ! intercourse . You are not lauded because you are the
first Orator of which the . British iMiipire can boast ; nor have I ever seen a correct and critical appreciation of that wonderful power by which you can enthral the souls of any assembly that is not hardened against the charm by some sinister interest
which is supposed to be at stake . The promptness , the shrewdness , and uiv versatility ; the skilful gradation , the bold contrast , and the well-timed burst of impassioned appeal ; the consummate art which is true nature : these have been noted , though only in a rough and iindiscriiiiinating criticism ; but the poetical individuality which really makes you what yon are , and would have separated you from common men had you lived in the most quiet and stagnant times ; which has been the source
of your most general or most remote political aspirations ; and yet which often , with your fiercest invective , blends some momentary emotion or allusion stealing upon the ear like sweet music through the gloom and storm of a winter' night : this has been scarcely heeded , though by all who look through argument to genius , and through politics to humanity , it is what has been
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A LETTER TO DANIEL O'CONNELL , ESQ ., M . P .,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 53, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/53/
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