The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 by Various
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"Had gaz'd on Nature's naked loveliness, Acteon-like, until _he fled away_." John Keates, forsaking the land of his fame, and prematurely resigning his "quiet breath," on that spot "Where dwelt the muses at their natal hour;" leaving to the less sensitive reviewers to prove, whether he had been "led astray by the light from heaven, or by his own clouded and tempestuous genius:" "That fire within so fiercely burned That whence it came it soon returned." Maturin, though corrupted and enervated by the follies and dissipation of the anti-poetic city, becoming, in his lucid intervals, "himself again," in the composition of a splendid dramaticle.--Henry Neele, the "martyr-student," inviting us to share in the intense admiration of intellect; forcibly demonstrating "that song is but the eloquence of truth"--but of him no more! "The churchyard bears an added stone; |
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