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Or , Scenes on the Mississippi . By Frances Trollope . 3 vols . London Bentley . 1836 . Mbs . Trollope has put forth three more volumes full of \* 0 favourite topic—abuse of America . The point , however , which she has attacked this time is one which gives her some power over our sympathies ; for the best friends of America mostifiribi
Mrs . Trollope in feelings of horror at the system of slavery , and are not behind her in deeo appreciation of the evils and
Bufferings which such a system necessarily implies , though thjeir mode of expressing Uieir feelings would be very different . She seen * influenced by a malicious pleasure rather than a feeling of moral antipathy in exposing the absurd anomaly presented by a people who are at once extensive slave-holders and professed lovers of liberty ; who are in this instance utter tyrants and the greatest declaimed in the world against ail tyranny . Taking this strange compound of inconsistencies as a basis , she has worked up a tale
which is elever in many respects , but which is painful and cop ** casting more than affecting or tragic , because the display of Um
and degrading vice is more frequently attempted , and row * efficiently executed , than that of suffering virtue or strong' &a 4 guilty paeeione . The picture she lias drawn may be exaggerated , but it is difficult to be quite sure that such is the case . We hare but too many well-authenticated stories of cruelty to supper her ; mud without recurring to individual instances , w know tfcart
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Ths Life aud Adventure &c . ***
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Not in the noting , or the instrument , Fine Music ' s sweet sufficiency doth live ; But in the sight and touch executive Of "harmony ' s soul-active president , Learn'd , and instinctive to her element . How dull is Poesy which , read , doth give Nought of its meaning's clear-exempletive—The poet lost , the reader evident ! I have heard Spenser , Shakspeare , and sage Ben , Made Sternhold , Hopkins , Watts , by mouths ungifted , Which spake untutor'd by the heart and brain : And thus it is how Weber , Beethoven , Whom hearing , I have been to heaven lifted , Now steep me in a discord-hell of pain .
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ON HEARING SOME flNE MUSIC ILL-PLAYED .
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THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JONATHAN JEFFERSON WHITLAW ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1836, page 635, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2662/page/47/
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