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mis painter ( M'Chse ) furnished a fine ill ustraUoivpQm ^ years pack in his ' Installation of Captain Rock / In toe physiog-^ omles there portrayed , might the student of the human mind fifid aT \ suasw ^ r to ^ any a perplexing- doubt as to the progress , o £ : | tc ^ oiad of uatious , as of individuals . On many an Irish
i ^ M ^ . I bave looked , the more comfortably for having seen that ^ pistjGLjre * Many a dark newspaper paragraph , headed " LimexW ; ^ t- " Armagh Assizes " — or " Tithe Affray "—? was there ^ e ^ p l ^ i&ed to me ; explained its origin—explained its tendency —Mgstpblisked the ultimate denouement in . vivid energetic excejli&iace—of a disordered , exasperated oppression , —distorted , aaa in some respects and instances , degraded national character .
Tligfte was genius enough there to furnish forth a hundred " g $ a * & of toe exhibition "—there were there materials for a pwM ^ re gal l ery . Far more than all this was there also . There Wffg th < e outward and visible signs—of . a vital fund—of purest J * W ^ $ thies and firmest purpose . Veiled in the tableau of an an * b ) gqQu& incident , was wrapped up the history of many a
generation . . The qualities and conditions of a p hysical revolutioiwere there stated , which it will take more than a century ac ^ u ^ JJy to work out . W orked ouit it will be when the warmth of domestic affection , devotedness of public sympathy , everbuoyaat hopefulness and activity , versatility of apprehensiye ^ esft , and general aptitude for social co-operation , — there depicted in discord and confusion , —shall be settled , but not
pHQ&Ji doy / n , shall be regulated , but not into monotonous routi n ^ , ^ -i ^ tp f ^ rh ^ tps a system of society , involving more elevation , mixed wit { i variety , more depth , with more vigorous airiness of fcjfeflUOU-end enjoyment , than yet the world has seen . And th ^ a-sJ ^ lL . the wild beauty of the daughters of the Green Isle gmce apjj gladden scenes of worthy happiness , though
now—. " My cheek the burning tear-drop laves , To think such breasts must suckle slaves . " » < r The hand of one who so well has fixed , has so finely expga— ed , in visible feature the working of the hidden mind , should ttot be carelessly condemned . His Macbeth waa said to be a failbre . ( i We see nothing in the face of the Thane of the astonishment natural to such a meeting . " Alas , the Thane was
jm > w a King , and in the mental moment portrayed , astonishment has no p lace ; he has now passed that point in his evil course mX wWcih—? returning were as tedious as sjo o ' er "—he has now piUftd ; Jbis hifth- ^ ou ^ d ppyv ^ rs a ^ aiust the paofal lawg of the « Mverec ^ of >»( tt » r 0 j aw 4 de » paU cling * for support and inspira-^ c > 9 to the deiuaire co » 6 dence in power s beyond nature ' s sway . nd teeks the weird women \ hi * second intefvisyf i& sh ^ wn . and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 700, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/48/
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