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    The solemn strain which follows , is introduced at a scene of revelry , after a bacchanalian lay , with a . dramatic effect for which we must refer the reader to the work . ' She stood before our Lady ' s shrine , And offered gems and gold ; A stately woman , pale and sad , Before her time grown okL

    And softly , softly murmured she A prayet so sad and low , And hid her face with both her hands . That none her grief might know * That woman ' s prayer , unheard by man , Went up to God on high , Like an archangel ' s trumpet voice , That shakes the earth and sky .

    c < Give back my wanderer unto me , Mine erring child restore !*' But the hills of heaven they answered her , " He ' s lost for evermore I " ' Give back , ' * she cried , " mine only one . Have I not sorrowed sore !" But the depths of hell made answer low " He ' s ours for evermore . ** ' p . 70 .

    The purity of sentiment , the truth of description , the melody of versification , the amiable , holy , and beneficent spirit , by which these dramas are pervaded , will have beeh anticipated by those who had read and loved the former productions of the writer . But many will be taken by surprise in the high and bold qualities which they also exhibit . There is , however , across the Atlantic , a critic of a kindred spirit , whose philosophical and far-seeing mind had already taught the harmony of such

    attributes , and shown the natural compatibility of the gentleness of religion with the power of dramatically developing the darkest deeds and passions . We cannot better embody our own view , and conclude this notice , than by appending what we may almost term an anticipatory criticism by Dr . Channing on the Tragedies of Alary Howitt . The quotation is from his ' Remarks on the Character and Writings of Fenelon , ' published in the Christian Examiner for March , 1829 .

    c We believe that the union of religion with genius , will favour that species of composition to which it may seem at first to be least propitious . We refer to that department of literature which has for its object , the delineation of the Btronger and more terrible and guilty passions . Strange as it may appear , these gloomy and appalling features of our nature may be best comprehended and portrayed by the purest and noblest minds . The common idea is , that overwhelming emotions , the more they are experienced , can the more effectually be described . We have one strong presumption against this doctrine . Tradition leads

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 403, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/21/