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    POETRY.

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    tity , ( if we may so speak , ) and come from him in the purity and sacredness of holy things . But , injustice to our author , it should be observed , the ideas of others are never detected in

    him so as to suggest the thought of plagiarism or servile imitation : we think him clearly original : and though , as a composer , he discovers so much scientific knowledge and refined taste , he discovers also the test of real genius , in giving the charm and interest of novelty to that which seems obvious , and is plain and simple .

    Not to mention that , with a few pleasing and beautiful exceptions , the sentiments of the verse are highly orthodox , would seem rather deceiving to our readers . We regret much they are so ; and should delight to see Mr .

    Jowett ' s Melodies presented to the public with a better and unexceptionable adaptation of sacred poetry : but selections of hymns of great merit are in the hands of Unitarian Christians ,

    from which appropriate ones may be easily chosen , and applied to these delightful compositions . In some few instances , particularly where the author has introduced the fictions of or *

    thodoxy most offensive to us , his tact and taste seem utterly to have deserted him , and a very harsh discordancy struck on our minds from the ill assorted union between the music and the verse : and did we need further

    conviction on the subject , we might have it from the complete failure before us , to make the dogmas of the popular creed unite with a pure and pleasing musical expression . Those of our readers to whom the rich and melodious tongue of Italy is familiar , will be gratified with the specimens

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    THOUGHTS ON THE INFLUENCES OF RELIGION . How purely , along * this beautiful stream , I have seen the rays of the eve-star play , As if there lihey had lov'd in peace to gleam , Where they found a mirror as fair as they !

    How sweetly , within yon lonely grove , I have heard the hymn of the wood-bird ring , Like the song of a bird from a bower above Only lit upon earth to rest her wing !

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    given in the latter part of the volume , of an Italian version of the Psalms by Mattei , set to very pleasing and appropriate harmonies . In his Preface , the author remarks of them /—" The Italian Psalms were set to

    music at the request of a dear and honoured brother , ^ the representative of the Church Missionary Society in Malta ; to be sung there by his family and friends , when assembled for domestic worship . "—The melody and the poetry of the " Ode" which concludes the volume before us , will , we trust , be greeted by many Christian hearts with the amiable , holy and heavenly spirit which seem to have

    inspired both . It would be an indulgence to our own feelings , to remark distinctly , on several of these iascinating compositions ; but it might be ill-judged for the feelings of others :

    and , to dwell longer on a song-book ( though a sacred one ) in a Miscellany like this , might be risking a rebuke from its graver readers , whose weakness it is not , to be led by the ears , like ourselves .

    We tender Mr . Jowett our best thanks for a satisfaction in sacred music from his book , pure and perfect ; such as none but Handelian strains had ever before given us ; and we feel ourselves deeply indebted to him , for a help to family religion which , we assure ourselves , will endear the domestic altar and sacrifice

    to many amiable minds , whose education and habits make a degree of taste and refinement necessary in the musical expression of their praise and gratitude .

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    420 Poetry . —Thoughts on the Influence * of Religion .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/36/