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    Before ( bare » ins of omission * sundry twitcli ^ s ia ftce $$ ry ,, utttt « ke « of extU and entrances , delay * of arrival of Queers , * &d » worse than all , imperfection in parts- —milt into nothing . Pfee play before the curtain deserves a word . The audience at the Hay market , of which I was one , was such 3 us did due

    hfft&our to the occasion , not a light one ; and their reception and appreciation of the revival were judicious and encouraging , from pit to gallery ; and not the least honourable were the applauses which descended from the gods . Of this a word . Some lovers of the drama , whose opinions generally I respect , are favourable to the extinction of shilling-galleries . The gods forbid !— -the gods did once take upon themselves to speak

    pretty loudly in the matter . It is said that these " groundliaga" ( sk y lines , now-a-days , if you please ) " are incapable of anything but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise . " The critics should be relegated to the gallery for a season , and they will Warn— -among many things which are taught in that schoolthat the dumb-shows and the noise are all that can reach th ^ t

    position . He can hardly appreciate the play of a half-suppressed smile , whose situation only allows him a view of the otowa of the actor ' s hat , or head , as it may be , and S £ es these diminished to fantoccini . Let the critic then resort to the Minors , which are so much

    minor , that the frequenters of Drury ' s gallery are within eyeshot of the stage , and of those who move and speak and look HfK > n it . He will there learn to appreciate the force of moral sympathies—ay , even among the " gods ! " He will there discover where the sentiments , for which he may vainly have scrutinized the circles whose strongest term of moral disapprobation * is

    " odd / ' and of contempt , " singular "—have found refuge ; the Co « nt from which the stream of sincerity and earnestness , in all its freshness , is to flow over the arid barrens of society—and , achieving many greater things , achieve also the revival of dramatic taste and art , and the revisal of the dramatic system . L . D .

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    Tu € HB are two kinds of discontent—personal and political : the fo ? ro * r fixes its little microscopic eye on all the less pleasing potato af individual fortune or position ; the latter extends its tttaropiQ vision over the wide region of universal life * : It w remarkable that thege dispositions are rarely , if ever , coejdbtent ;—the man most alive to the oppree&wa * ao 4 injuries

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    POLITICAL AND PERSONAL DISCONTENT-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1836, page 630, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2662/page/42/