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    eminence of rank , and surrotinded by all the splendour both of * fortune and talent , can never be happy . We shall conclude our observations on the poetry of Byron by a short contrast between him and Moore : in the " Loves of the Angels" and " Heaven and Earth , " the great characteristics of both are strongly marked in the different manner in which they have treated the same subject . The

    " Loves of the Angels" is full of that light which the genius of the one always throws around it , whilst " Heaven and Earth" is covered with the gloom in which that of the other delights to invest itself . Moore sings , with more tenderness and devotion , only the sorrows of the sons of heaven , arising from their misplaced affection for the daughters of earth : Byron , with more pathos and sublimity , connects with these sorrows the wretchedness of the whole human race , and its almost entire destruction by the deluge ,

    throwing all the elements into confusion , and raising the spirits of the damned to complete the horror of the scene . The harp of the former , in sweet arid tender , though in somewhat alluring , strains , breathes only love ; whilst that of the latter , in loader and bolder song , resounds to the fiercer passions ' , though its loftier tones sometimes die away in the softened cadence of gentler feeling . The one may be compared to the purest of his own angete , whom the love of woman has seduced from the skies , relating the sad story

    of his fall , in language expressing , indeed , too much attachment to thd e&rth , but occasionally breathing the most heartfelt regret , as one whose soul still loves virtue and adores God , even through the shades that sin has thrown around it : the other bears a strong resemblance to that mighty , but fallen , spirit , " who deemed it hard to be created , and to acknowledge Him who ,

    midst the cherubim , made him as suns to a dependent star , "—a spirit of a prouder and gloomier nature , who , though he has not forgotten the scenes of light and beauty in which he once adored , loves to sing with mournful and complaining , and sometimes impious , voice , the hopeless pangs of lost pestce and virtue , rather than the celestial joys of those pure and happy souls that still retain them . J . B .

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    He that from earth ' s degrading selfishness Hath rais ed his soul into the Life Divine , If full of Lo \ e intent the world to bless , His heart confirming every Gospel line , He stands , a minister of Righteousness ,

    How pow ' rful is his teaching ! Does he pray ? What holy fervour bears the soul away ! How the heart echoes what the lips express ! Hear him ! the truth is with him . Hear ye not A voice within your souls to his reply ? O if indeed it speaks , be timely taught , —

    That self-condemning voice thou canst not fly ; Obey it , and the threatener in thy breast Shaft breathe sweet tidings of eternal rest .

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    870 Christian Preaching .

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    CHRISTIAN PREACHING .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1827, page 870, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1803/page/14/