The Monthly Review (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The sable scutcheons on the wall within, The rustic crowd, yet ignorant of sin, ' The " pale-eyed pastor," venerably gray, Who leads to Heav'n the unreforming way. Say, shall these fall, and fall without defence ? Forbid it satire ' F. And forbid it sense.' Appended to the dialogue is a translation from Horace, not surpassing mediocrity, and disappointing the expectations which we formed from the touches of classical elegance in the dialogue. Differing as we do from the author in most of his political doctrines, we shall nevertheless be sincerely glad to hail him again, whether as a censor of the manners of the age or as a candidate for fame on territory more appropriate to the vagarie af fiction. Art. 14. Tribute of Affection to the Memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Susanna Frederica Whitehouse. By the Reverend John White- house, Rector of Orlingbury, Northamptonshire. 8vo. pp. 57. Conder. 1819. Lines written by a clergyman to the memory of his deceased! wife, and apparently at a time when his mind was under considerable agitation, we cannot think of subjecting to any critical scrutiny. A tone of mournfulness, deep and fixed, pervades the whole of this pamphlet, which arrests the attention and insures the sympathy of every reader; particularly as the character of the deceased is.delineated in a manner entirely free from extravagance and ostentation. In support of our opinion, and also from the belief that it is a favourable specimen of the poem, we may quote the following passage: ' In early life, And in the bloom of beauty, she retired In conscious dignity, and not disdained To pass her life with me in rural shades; Where in the bosom of retirement; ' She found her duties and her happiness. There chiefly 'midst th' endeared domestic scent, Amidst the circle of he...