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SEWARD.

Ay. Now your meaning emerges.

NORTH.

E profundis clamavi. In eloquent prose, the feeling fits itself into the process of the thinking. In true verse, the thinking fits itself into the process of the feeling.

I perpend.

SEWARD.

NORTH.

In prose, the general distribution and composition of the matter belong to the reign of Necessity. The order of the parts, and the connexion of part with part, are obliged-logically justifiable-say, then, are demonstrable. See an Oration of Demosthenes. In verse, that distribution and composition belong to the reign of Liberty. That order and connexion are arbitrary-passionately justifiable—say, then, are delectable. See an Ode of Piudar.

Publish-publish.

SEWARD.

NORTH.

In prose the style is last-in verse first; in prose the sense controls the sound-in verse the sound the sense; in prose you speak-in verse you sing; in prose you live in the abstract-in verse in the concrete; in prose you present notions-in verse visions; in prose you expound-in verse you enchant; in prose it is much if now and then you are held in the sphere of the fascinated senses-in verse if of the calm understanding.

BULLER.

Will you have the goodness, sir, to say all that over again?

NORTH.

I have forgot it. The lines in the countenance of Prose are austere. The look is shy, reserved, governed-like the fixed steady lineaments of mountains. The hues that suffuse the face of her sister Verse vary faster than those with which the western or the eastern sky momently reports the progress of the sinking, of the fallen, but not yet lost, of the coming or of the risen sun.

I have jotted that down, sir.

BULLER.

NORTH.

And I hope you will come to understand it. Candidly speaking, 'tis more than I do.

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I venerate Wordsworth. Wordsworth's poetry stands distinct in the world. That which to other men is an occasional pleasure, or possibly delight, and to other poets an occasional transport, THE SEKING THIS VISIBLE UNIVERSE, is to him-a Life-one Individual Human Life-namely, his Own-travelling its whole journey from the Cradle to the Grave. And that Life-for what else could he do with it?-he has versified-sung. And there is no other such Song. It is a Memorable Fact of our Civilisation-a Memorable Fact in the History of Human Kind-that one perpetual song. Perpetual but infinitely various-as a river of a thousand miles, traversing, from its birthplace in the mountains, diverse regions, wild and inhabited, to the ocean-receptacle.

Confoundedly prosaic at times.

BULLER.

NORTH.

He, more than any other true poet, approaches Verse to Prose-never, I believe, or hardly ever, quite blends them."

BULLER.

Often-often-often, my dear sir.

VOL. LXV.-NO. CCCCIV.

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NORTH.

Seldom-seldom-seldom if ever, my dear sir. He tells his Life. His Poems are, of necessity, an Autobiography. The matter of them, then, is his personal reality; but Prose is, all over and properly, the language of Personal Realities. Even with him, however, so peculiarly conditioned, and, as well as I am able to understand his Proposition, against his own Theory of writing, Verse maintains, as by the laws of our insuppressible nature it always will maintain, its sacred Right and indefeasible Prerogative.

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Epos is Human History in its magnitude in Verse. In Prose, National History offers itself in parallelism. The coincidence is broad and unquestioned; but on closer inspection, differences great and innumerable spring up and unfold themselves, until at last you might almost persuade yourself that the first striking resemblance deceived you, and that the two species lack analogy, so many other kinds does the Species in Verse embosom, and so escaping are the lines of agreement in the instant in which you attempt fixing them.

BULLER.

Would that Lord Bacon were here!

NORTH.

And thus we are led to a deeper truth. The Metrical Epos imitates History, without doubt, as Lord Bacon says-it borrows thence its mould, not rigorously, but with exceeding bold and free adaptations, as the Iliad unfolds the Ten Years' War in Seven Weeks. But for the Poet, more than another, ALL IS IN ALL.

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It is, my friends, the arguing in verse of a question in Natural Theology. Whence are Wrong and Pain? Moral and Physical Evil, as we call them, in all their overwhelming extent of complexity sprung? How permitted in the Kingdom of an All-wise and Almighty Love? To this question, concerning the origin of Evil, Milton answers as a Christian Theologian, agreeably to his own understanding of his Religion,-so justifying the Universal Government of God, and, in particular, his Government of Man. The Poem is, therefore, Theological, Argumentative, Didactic, in Epic Form. Being in the constitution of his soul a Poet, mightiest of the mighty, the intention is hidden in the Form. The Verse has transformed the matter. Now, then, the Paradise Lost is not a history told for itself. But this One Truth, in two answering Propositions, that the Will of Man spontaneously consorting with God's Will is Man's Good, spontaneously dissenting, Man's Evil. This is created into an awful and solemn narrative of a Matter exactly adapted, and long since authoritatively told. But this Truth, springing up in the shape of narrative, will now take its own determination into Events of unsurpassed magnitude, now of the tenderest individuality and minuteness; and all is, hence, in keeping-as one power of life springs up on one spot, in oak-tree, moss, and violet, and the difference of stature, thus understood, gives a deep harmony, so deep and embracing, that none without injury to the whole could be taken away.

BULLER.

What's all this! Hang that Drone-confound that Chanter. Burst, thou most unseasonable of Bagpipes! Silence that dreadful Drum. Draw in your Horns

SEWARD.

The

Musquetry! cannon! huzzas! The enemy are storming the Camp. Delhis bear down on the Pavilion. The Life is in danger. Let us save the King.

NORTH.

See to it, gentlemen. I await the issue in my Swing-chair. Let the Barbarians but look on me and their weapons will drop.

All's right. A false alarm.

BULLER.

NORTH.

There was no alarm.

BULLER.

'Twas but a SALUTE. THE BOYs have come back from Kilchurn. They are standing in front beside the spoil.

NORTH.

Widen the Portal. Artistically disposed! The Whole like one huge Starfish. Salmo ferox, centre-Pike, radii-Yellow-fins, circumference-Weight I should say the tenth of a ton. Call the Manciple. Manciple, you are responsible for the preservation of that Star-fish.

BULLER.

Sir, you forget yourself. The People must be fed. We are Seven. Twelve are on the Troop Roll-Nine Strangers have sent in their cards-the Gillies are growing upon us-the Camp-followers have doubled the population since morn, and the circumambient Natives are waxing strong. Hunger is in the Camp-but for this supply, Famine; Iliacos intra muros PECCATUR et extra; Dods reports that the Boiler is wroth, the Furnace at a red heat, Pots and Pans a-simmer-the Culinary Spirit impatient to be at work. In such circumstances, the tenth of a ton is no great matter; but it is better than nothing. The mind of the Manciple may lie at rest, for that Star-fish will never see to-morrow's Sun; and motionless as he looks, he is hastening to the Shades.

NORTH.

Sir, you forget yourself. There is other animal matter in the world besides Fish. No penury of it in camp. I have here the Manciple's report. "One dozen plucked Earochs-one ditto ditto Ducklings-d. d. d. March Chickone Bubblyjock-one Side of Mutton-four Necks-six Sheep-heads, and their complement of Trotters-two Sheep, just slaughtered and yet in wholesfour Lambs ditto-the late Cladich Calf-one small Stot-two lb. 40 Rounds in pickle-four Miscellaneous Pies of the First Order-six Hams-four dozen of Rein-deer Tongues-one dozen of Bears' Paws-two Barrels of—”

BULLER.

Stop. Let that suffice for the meanwhile.

NORTH.

The short shadow-hand on the face of Dial-Cruachan, to my instructed sense, stands at six. You young Oxonians, I know, always adorn for dinner, even when roughing it on service; and so, V. and W., do you. These two elderly gentlemen here are seen to most advantage in white neckcloths, and the OLD ONE is never so like himself as in a suit of black velvet. To your tents and toilets. In an hour we meet in the-Deeside.

INDEX TO VOL. LXV.

Aculcho, storming of, 139.

Africa, physical conformation of, 408.
AFTER A YEAR'S REPUBLICANISM, 275.
AGRICULTURE, SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL,
255.

Albuquerque, minister to Pedro the
Cruel, career of, 339, et seq-his fall,
343, et seq.

Alcherius, Jehan, the works of, on paint-
ing, 441, 442.

Alexandropol, great fortress at, 582.
ALGERIA, REview of worKS ON THE WAR
IN, 20.

Alphonso, king of Castile, 337, 338.
Alps, chain of the, 408.

-America, the colonisation of, 416.

AMERICAN THOUGHTS ON EUROPEAN REVO-
LUTIONS, 190.

ANCIENT PRACTICE OF PAINTING, 436.
Angels, the representation of, in early
art, 182.

Angoulême, the duchess d', 597.

Anne, empress of Russia, cruelties of, 674.
Apennines, chain of the, 408.

Arabs, hatred of the, to the French, 25.
ARARAT AND THE Armenian HIGHLANDS,

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Army, proposed reduction of the, 360.
ART AND ARTISTS IN SPAIN, 63.
ART, SACRED AND LEGENDARY, 175.

Art, peculiarities of the early history of,
in England, 64-state of, during the
middle ages, 436.

Asia, the table-lands, &c. of, 408.
Australia, physical conformation, &c., of,
414.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY, 614.-Part II.
697.

Austria, the revolutionary movement in,
2-reaction in, 4-her administration
in Dalmatia, 204, 206-progress of con-
servatism in, 357-system, &c., of
education in, 567, 569-composition,
growth, &c. of the empire of, 614-

character of the officers of her army,
204-ignorance in, regarding Hungary,

702.
Austrian empire, statistics of the, 706.
Bacon, lord, on history and poetry, 759,
et seq.

Baden, statistics of education in, 568.
Bairam, the feast of, in Egypt, 50.
Bari, African kingdom of, 60.
Bathyanyi, count Louis, Hungarian minis-
ter, 697, 698.

Bavaria, system, &c., of education in,
568, 569.

Beaton, cardinal, 114, 115-his murder,
116.

BEATTIE'S LIFE OF CAMPBELL, review of,
219.

Belgium, system, &c., of education in,
568, 569-its revolt from Austria,
615.

Bengal, Macaulay's description of, 390.
Beni-Abbez, extermination of the tribe of,
28.

Biography, remarks on, 219.

Black-hole of Calcutta, Macaulay's pic-
ture of the, 389.

Blake the painter, 183.

BLANC, A., HIS HISTORY OF CONSPIRACIES,
&c., reviewed, 664.

Blanche of Bourbon, marriage of Pedro
the Cruel to, 345-her murder, 351.
Blue Nile, the, 47.

Bohemia, despotic power of Austria in,
615-its attempted revolt, 618.
Bolognese MS. on painting, the, 442.
Bolotnikoff, a Russian impostor, 669.
Bonald, M. de, 537.

Bonnetat, the Abbé, on the religious state
of France, 539.

BOOK OF THE FARM, review of the, 255.
Bordeaux, the Duke de, his claim to the

throne of France, 194-general inclin-
ation toward him, 284-Didier's ac-
count of him, 592, et seq.
Bordeaux, the duchess de, 598.
Borgona, Juan de, 65.

Boris Godunoff, usurpation of the Rus-
sian throne by, 666.
Borneo, the island of, 415.
Borrer's campaign in the Kabylie, review
of, 20, 23.

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Bourbons, era of the, in France, 6-reac-
tion in France in their favour, 190-on
their prospects there, 590.
Bourgoing, M., on the policy, &c., of Rus-
sia, 709.

Brandon, Charles, career of, 473.
Bribery, parliamentary, under William
III., 401.

Brussels MS. on painting, the, 442.
BUDDLE, T., LETTERS ΤΟ THE REV.
CHARLES FUSTIAN, by-Letter I., 679–
Letter II., 683-Letter III., 688-
Letter IV., 694.

Bugeaud, marshal, his atrocities in Alge-
ria, 21, 26, et seq.

Burke, E., on the religious spirit of Eng-
land, 536.

BURKE'S ANECDOTES OF THE ARISTOCRACY,
review of, 468.

BURKE'S CELEBRATED TRIALS, review of,
468.

Cabardia, inroad of Chamyl into, 142.
Cabezon, siege of, by Peter the Cruel,
352.

Cabrera, renewed insurrection under, 248
-his character, 250.

-Californian gold country, probable effects
of the discovery of the, 416, et seq.
Cambraso, Luca, 69.

Cambridge university, reforms proposed
at, 238.

Camel, flesh of the, 57.

CAMPBELL, BEATTIE'S LIFE of, reviewed,
219.

Canadas, revolutions in progress in, cir-
cumstances which have led to it, &c.,
727.

- Canadian rebellion, causes, &c., of the,
727-compensation proposed to actors
in, 736.

Cano, Alonzo, the Spanish artist, 76.
Capital, Prudhon on, 310.
CARLISTS IN CATALONIA, the, 248.
Castellane, general, on the atrocities in
Algeria, 21.

Cat, the Nubian, 54.

Catalonia, the new Carlist outbreak in,
248.

Cattle, on the management of, 266-
names of, at different ages, 268.
Caucasus, the, 409.

CAUCASUS AND THE COSSACKS, the, 129.
CAXTONS, the, Part IX. chap. xxxix., 33
--chap. xl., 34-chap. xli., 36-chap.
xlii., 39-chap. xliii., My father's
crotchet on the Hygeienic chemistry of
books, 40-chap. xliv., 42-chap. xlv.,
44-Part X. chap. xlvi., 147-chap.
xlvii., 150-chap. xlviii., 151-chap.
xlix. 156-chap. 1., 158—chap. li., 160

-Part XI. chap. lii., 287-chap. liii.,
291-chap. liv., 292-chap. lv., 293—
chap. lvi., 294-chap. lvii., 298-chap.
lviii., 300-Part XII. chap. lix., 420—
chap. lx., 422-chap. lxi., 424-chap.
lxii., 426-chap. lxiii., 428-chap.lxiv.,
Letter from Pisistratus Caxton to Al-
bert Trevanion, Esq., 430-Reply, 432
--chap. lxv. 435-Part XIII. chap.lxvi.,
637-chap. lxvii., 638-chap. lxviii.,
639-chap. lxix., 640-chap. lxx., 644
-chap. lxxi., 645—chap. lxxii., 647—
chap. lxxiii., being a chapter on house-
tops, 648-chap. lxxiv., 650-chap.
lxxv., 653-chap. lxxvi., 654-chap.
lxxvii., 657-chap. lxxviii., 660-chap.
lxxix., 661.

Cellini, crucifix by, for the Escurial, 68.
Chamyl Bey, the Caucasian chief, 130
note, 131, et seq., 139.

Changarnier, general, 276, 277.
Charles I., Macaulay's views on, 394.
Charles II., picture of England under,

398.

Chartists, revolutionary agitation of the,

2.

Chasi Mollah, a Caucasian chief, 131.
Chateaubriand, auguries of, relative to
the restoration of the Bourbons, 196.
Chateaubriand's Génie du Christianisme,
on, 537, 538.

Chemistry, importance of, to agriculturę,

5.

Chora-Beg, a Caucasian chief, 135.

Christian art, superiority of, to Greek,
179.

CHRISTOPHER UNDER CANVASS, 742.
Church, fostering of art by the, in Spain,
64.

Circassians, sketches of the, and their
struggles against Russia, 129.

CIVIL REVOLUTION IN THE CANADAS,
727.

Cladich-Cleugh, description of, 742.
CLAUDIA AND PUDENS, 487.
Clergy, the Armenian, 584.
Clive, lord, Macaulay on, 387.
Coats of arms, proposed restrictions re-
garding, 726.

Cobden, falsification of the predictions of,
as to the pacific character of the era,
5-his financial schemes, 362.

Cocks, Mr, his translation of Quinet's
Ultramontanism, 531, 532.

Coello, Alonzo, the Spanish painter, 69-
Claudio, 77.

COLLEGE, the, a sketch in verse, 601.
Collo dance, the, 209.

Colonial government, defects in the ex-
isting system of, 524.

Colonies, Whig policy regarding the, 15
-threatened abandonment of them,
363.

COLONISATION, Mr Wakefield's theory of,
509.

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