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band * \ mder their cheeks (« fe if they died of the toothache ) : they are not carved with their eyes fixed on the stars ; but , as their mind * were wholly bent upon th « world , the self-same way they geero to turn their faces , Duch * Let me know fully , therefore , the effect Of this thy dismal preparation—This talk , fit for a charnel ?
Bos . Now I shall ! ( A coffin , cords , and a bell , produced . ) Here is a present from your princely brothers ; And may it arrive welcome , for it brings Last benefit , last sorrow . Duch . Let me see it :
I have so much obedience in my blood , I wish it in their veins to do them good . Bos , This is your last presence-chamber . Car . * O , my sweet lady ! Duck . Peace ! it affrights not me . Bos . I am the common bell-man , That usually is sent to condemn ed persons The night before they suffer . Duck . Even now thou said ' st Thou wast a tomb-maker !
Bos , 'Twas to bring you , By degrees , to mortification .- —Listen !" This then is a part of the reviewer ' s choice specimen of the mock tragic ! This is one of the instances he " fixes upon" as proving the " unnatural and absurd style" of the old dramatists ,
the essence of which consisted in " redundancy of diction . " The instance will be fixed upon the reviewer , or we are much mistaken . If it may with decency be called a fault to have too
much of that merit in which most other writers are so deficient , then we should say the chief fault of the old dramatists ( we speak not of the dull trash of their second and third-rate followers ) was redundancy of imagery . The foregoing quotation is a fair instance of the wonderful strength and unlopped luxuriance of these great men ; the reviewer ' s page is the
transcript of his wordy accusation . Instead of looking into the old dramatists , he has done nothing but look in the glass . It is owing to the result of this slight discrepancy that the onl y passage he can find worthy of the least praise is the one about the lark , though he takes care to add that it is spoiled by
" bombast and swaggering . " Where ? how ? in what ? The fact is , he discovers a resemblance to himself iu the fceak , 44 nosed to pick " all things fantastic , but he has no sympathy with the wings , the voice , or the soul of the lark ; hence the re-action . He takes no notice of the fearful philosophy and intellect of Bosola , particularly displayed in what
* Cariofa , the Ducbess ' w muitl .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1836, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2656/page/47/
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