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Oetodtr z , 1*691 THE TOMAHAWK. 151
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almost The vagueness legendary of horror Manfred which ' s crime surrounded is intentional his father , and ' s character is part of . the traged poet y . ' s As art for . Incest Cain being has a always defence been of a the favourite crime , one subject might of just It as is well a well say known the Book fact of that Genesis the was minds . of some poets , by trayal nature of gent characters le and pure stained , love with to exercise some horrid themselves crime in . The the pour very - fascination contrast of the for them nature . of How their far hero Byron to has their permeated own has his a strange works with incidents of his own life and the features of his own character is a very difficult question . But to say that all his noble poems self was are profligate disgusting , is p to ieces be guilty of hypocri of preposterous sy because injustice the poet , him and - , moreover , exhibits an utter ignorance of human nature . If there it is is one to fact the double to which nature analysis of men of human to the nature perpetual decidedl conflict y points of the , good and the evil part of ourselves , ; and the union of the purest reli sentiment gious fervour , of the , with noblest abominable aspirations lust , and and of general deep moral and sincere weakness y the ielded weak , is to a bod p temptation henomenon y and the b undisci such y no natures means plined of passions in rare their occurrence or frantic appetites penitence . When have that utter more appeals staid to and Heaven less , more frequent eloquent sinners and utter sincere . They than often any man seek intending relief from it their for publication own impurity ever wrote the purest a true autobiograp thoughts . No hy , riences no poet ; the or novelist poet idealizes ever , introduced the novelist absolutel exaggerates y his ; but own neither expesome alllows men his their nature writings in naked are truth the expression to appear of in their his works better . nature With , with author some of the of their Ti ? nes worst criti . It , or is of possible the Saturday that , in Review private article life , the , is not condemning without gen their erous worst feelings enemy . Either on would such evidence probably as shrink they from condemned scarcel confined y Mrs a to soul . Lei private gh would and life have yron and . been concerned Had found the action onl so y of malignant obscure Mrs . Stowe persons and been so , of filth a y great -minded poet as to have his received sister , plenty it as truth are found ; but read when y uttered to embrace The mo as ral an of edif this ying is truth very . sad , but very simple . We have now often -a and -days often is very repeated degraded that . the We tone are glad of morality that so large Eng a land maj But ority the of possibility the public of hav men e accepting vindicated such humanity a story in told this in matter such a . manner such language as true , without of never any listening scruple to ; the of commenting natural suggestions on it in of generosity and delicacy— " Can I countenance this hideous but accusation who still against lives in a lad her children of whom ; can know I abet no evil this , who outrage is dead on a , who man is n genius ow in , the of unhappy and life , whose whose soul end at is in least the hands noble of , grave , principal God ? "— journals the very of possibility this country that should men attached have been to deaf two to of such the pleas , and should have been guilty of the conduct which we have of the low gmatized tone which above now by exists its real in name many , is minds a melanchol with regard y proof to truth , generosity , and honesty .
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), Oct. 2, 1869, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_02101869/page/3/
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