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    human life are not always the most influential ; our object has been , not to furnish an interesting narrative , but to sketch the records of a mind ; and we think that the occurrences just mentioned , taking place as they did , in the maturity pf Dr . jrriestley' «

    rnind , were means rather of indicating and developing than pf forming his character . They will find , tberefore , a more appropriate place in a future paper , in which we propose to attempt au analysis of that character in its intellectual , moral , and religious relations .

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    00 Tewiy ton ' s Poems .

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    TENNYSON ' S POEMS * .

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    In the autumn of 1830 , when the last desperate blow of despotism struck sparks that fired the mine beneath the palaces of the elder Bourbons ; when barricades were piled , and sabres clashed , and

    musketry and cannon roared , and Fury with her thousand weapons fought in the streets of Paris ; when the rainbow tricolor again spanned the political heavens , and the shouts of French victory were echoed back by those of British gratulation ; when

    stimulated by the strife , the Spirit of Reform in this country roused itself from seeming torpor , and girded itself for conflict with the great captain of the age and all corruption ' s hosts , and raised its voice for that inspiring s ^ iout which rallied the friends of freedom through England , Scotland , and Ireland , —it was our blessed hap to escape awhile from the feverish and tumultuous scene , with a

    little book which no flourish of newspaper trumpets had announced , and in whose train no reviewers had waved their banners , but which made us feel that a poet had arisen in the land , and that there was hope for man in powers and principles arid enJQyment 3 which flow , a deep and everlasting under-current , beneath the stormy surface of political changes and conflicts . We profess no indifference to the whirlwind , the earthquake , and the fire , but

    that still small voice sunk profoundly into our hearts , breathing a calmer and a holier hope . It was the poetry of truth , nature , and philosophy ; and above all , it was that of a young man , who , if true to himself and his vocation , might charm the sense and soul of humanity , and make the unhewn blocks in this our wilderness of society move into temples and palaces . The enjoyment of that hour of the spirit ' s rest , and of its revival to breathe the

    morning air of a purer day , ca . me back upon us when we saw that there was another volume of poems by Alfred TennysQn ; that to our little book a brother book was born , —and when we found it so * 1 . Poems , chiefly Lyrical , by Alfred Tennyson . —Wflfon . J 830 . 2 . Poemt , by A . Twyw * . —** w >^ 1833 . ' ' ^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1833, page 30, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2606/page/30/