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gWag ihrtmgh the qmVeringMe&ves , a peculiar but e 6 * td *! y * perceptibtefcckfU of an aromatic and refreshing kind , Which fcitetas to < gir » elasticity tcv the lifttbs and freedom to the lungs ? tWs impression he embodies very perfectly . Nor has tie feited * to appreciate the fitness of music to respond to the silence , a 6 his quotation of Spfctvser ' s exquisite lines will shew : —
" The joyous birds shrouded in cheerful shade , Their notes unto the voice attempered sweet ; Th * angelical soft trembling voices made To th' instruments divine respondence meet ; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the bass murmur of the water ' s fall :
lite water s fall with difference discreet , ; Now soft , now loud , unto the wind did call ; The gentle-warbling wind low answered to all . " The Faerie Queen * It will seem strange enough that we should select from a voltiweabout the woods , a tale about a Jire , but it is so well ^ Clrkfed up that 6 ur readers will forget the anomaly as they proceefl t—
" Tew , I deem , can altogether forget the secret pleasure which tjhey have felt in childhood , when gazing fancifully in the fire , where they have so often seen wild countries , and strange animals , horri 4 mines and yawning caverns , precipitous steeps and pointed crags , —all that H ^ i ' ever Been portrayed in romance , or produced by the wonderful va ^ arie ^ of sleep , has there been visible ; and last night , as I feat i& tJhe dim Ifcrelight , watching its half-pleasing , half-terrible darkened gleams faintly reddening- the pale walls , the same objects that had so often staruck me
when a- child , again appeared . The fire had burnt hollow , and a part . globed with that cheerful ruddy red which follows the exhaypt ^ d )> Uze ; wtnje ofX one side , and in various points , rested masses of whjyte ash , or . s , lat * $ faintly whitening and giving up its colour , with flakes ? f many fiues , spme waving upon the bars , and others quivering in the . glow . Above \ w&s a black canopy of coal that kept alternately sriiokliig ' And bubtftfn ' g ' , according to the motion of its gas . I had never seen k'fllner
firp to t > wUd upon , nor such a country as it represented : such vaat black wo ^ d ^ eterxwlly dark with the unbroken gloom of their own . foliage , — inaccessible peaks and narrow passes , —ruined castles standing , upon frightful heights ; and drooping banners which time had pearly worn away , OI it looked as silent and desolate 1 like a world beneath a Wprid ; while midway was a hideous black sky , through which a red * r $ * 3 rul ( ,
comet-like aun had rushed , and shone fiercely down upon the , horrible ruins . A fair arm lifted up the poker— " Not for tli wo ^ loV * * a # i I , 4 i my dear—^ touch it pot ! "—^ -and I caught her hand white » hq gwty& in silent wonder ; " I would not have that lire diBturoed , for hfV , ^ eworld " .
That poker seemed like a lever large enough to shift a creation like mine . ly ^ ftttirust itt flirtnWh mimntam and vall ^ ! " Nbi tfy dWr /; wud i ? a pk * o * ta thftiw dWn that old grey fort ^ e ^ iMth Mmk % pon Ih ^ jMv iMr tbek , « ntta hrifith would blow Aw ^ y ilmt ^< mkteMi # *« -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 741, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/25/
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