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    Or, the Feast of the Violets. 45

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    Canto Ii.—The Presentations And Bali,.

    Well advanc _ed , at this juncture , with true loving eyes , Mrs Opie , delightful for hating < White Lies . ' ' Good Temper / too , prince of the Lares ( God bless him ) owes Thousands of thanks to her nice duodecimos . — " What ! and you too must turn Quakeress , must you ?" Cried Phoebus ;—" well , spite of your costume , I'll trust you :

    Though truth , you dear goose , as all born Quakeresses Will tell you , has nothing in common with dresses : Besides , 'tis blaspheming my colours and skies : — However , it shews you still young , and that ' s wise ; And since you must needs have no fault , let us see If you can ' t mend it somehow , betwixt you and me . " He said ; and threw round her a light of such love , As turn'd her slate hues to the neck of the dove .

    Enter Pardoe all spirits , and Porter all state , But sweet ones , like ladies whom knights made elate ; ( The latter wore some foreign order , whose name I forget ; but it well grac'd the chivalrous dame . ) Then hearty good Roberts ; and Roche , ( dear old deathless Regina , whose lovers my boyhood made breatnless ) And Saunders , sweet Mary , as genuine a muse

    As ever stole forth in mild Poverty ' s shoes ; And Shelley , four-fam'd , —for her parents , her lord , And the poor lone impossible monster abhorr'd . ( So sleek and so smiling she came , people stared , To think such fair clay should so darkly have dared . ; But Apollo the very name _lov'd so , he turn'd To a glory all round her , which shook as it burn'd ,

    to men only ; but it need not be added , that it equally applies to the love professed by man or woman : — " We are too apt to think only how we are treated ; too little accustomed to observe what is the treatment of others by the same person . Watch and weigh . If a man speak evil of his friends to you , he will also speak evil of you to his friends . Kind and caressing words are easily spoken , and pleasant to hear ; but the man who bears

    a kind heart , bears U to ail , and not to one only . He who appears to love only the friend he speaks to , and slanders ot speaks coldly of the rest , loves no one but himself . *' Every one of these sentences is a jewel . ( 17 ) Mrs Opie _' s Tales , (« Simple Tales , ' < Tales of Real Life , ' & c . ) and her admirable novel ' Temper , ' are all printed in good , comfortable . sized , portable volumes , not too big for the pocket , yet with a largish type ; so that , in every respect , they may literally be said to furnish some of the easiest reading in the language .

    ( 18 ) See a small volume entitled ( if I remember , for I have unfortunately lost it ) •* Poems by John and Mary Saunders , —Two of the People . " The husband ( or brother , I know not which ) has also a true faculty , but embitters it with politics ; which are things much fitter for prose than poetry , unless in the shape of a ballad or ieu _detprit , or in some very great shape indeed that can move the world . The business

    of poetry is to love the beautiful , and to make the world love it ; and this is surely done best in a loving , not a hating fashion . But John Saunders is capable of reflection , and may choose to recognise his proper task . Mary Saunders , like a genuine woman , has found it by instinct . Some of . her effusions have left an impression on our memory , of extreme delicacy and feeling .

    Or, The Feast Of The Violets. 45

    Or , the Feast of the Violets . 45

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 45, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/43/