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Review Of New Publications.
we can with competence claim some praise , for its has be ; n sincere j from the execution we can derive nothing but hope . The labour has not been light , nor yet unattended by consolation ; but if half a long life could bring the great moral and domestic truths to the point desired , we should exult in the means by which the ends were attained . After so copious an analysis we shall forbear to say any more of tins work ,
-than that it is far superior in design , incidents , characters , and execution , to the modern novels in general , and rises above Mr . Pratt ' s former productions - in this way . Moral Tales in Verse , founded on real Events . Written by Thomas Hull , of the Theatre Royal , Covem Garden . 2 vols . Svo . Price is . Cawthorn . MANKIND have generally conceded to the truth of the position , that
morality is never so alluring to the young mind , particularly , as when it is presented through the medium of a pleasing narrative . We are charmed with the incidents and characters of a story , and that which we admire in them we wish to have realized in ourselves ; or that which we abhor in the conduct of others , with whom the good are contrasted , appears doubly more odious in our estimation , from this combination and contrast . The highest of all authorities has given his sanction to this sentiment , and
to the utility of the practice here recommended , by ino $ t frequently using the parabolical method of instruction in bis public ministry . And moral writers of all countries have had recourse to this mode of exhibiting the beauty of virtue and the deformity of vice . The work now under our eye is a series of moral tales , told in an artless manner , and in smooth numbers , to aid the best of ail purposes , the bitterest of religion .
It is a valuable addition to the stock of entertaining morality , and is adT mirably fitted for the amusement and solid instruction of young persons . Most of the tales are addressed to some friend of the author , and the whole collection is inscribed , in a sensible Dedication , to the Duke of Leeds . The Preface so well expresses the writer ' s sentiments and design , that we shall take the liberty of extracting ft entire .
' The following little compositions , which I have dignified with the title of Moral Tales , have been the employment of several leisure hours , at different periods of time . Some of them have been written many years , as the respective dates specify , but none of them printed till now , except the last in the second volume , of which further mention shall be made in its proper place . < Mr . ADDISON describes himself , as always being possessed of a diposition
to examine such old prints and ballads as he saw pasted upon the walls of cottages , & c . I have not only discovered the same turn in myself , ( and would I could find something else more similar to that excellent writer !) but I have ever , even from childhood , felt my attention peculiarly engaged by stories related in company , which have contained in them , any thing of the marvellous and supernatural . Hence it is , probably , that I have so long retained many of the singular events whereop the ensuing compositions are
founded . ' I have been ( I can say it with great truth ) repeatedly urged to publish them by friends , who have seen the manuscripts . The reader , perhaps , will call them very partial friends : it may be so . And I am ready to acknowledge that , after a careful revisal , they are much better calculated to elicit the approbation of a kind heart , than to obtain the commendation of a critical judgment . ' s-
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Review Of New Publications.
we can with competence claim some praise , for its has be ; n sincere j from the execution we can derive nothing but hope . The labour has not been light , nor yet unattended by consolation ; but if half a long life could bring the great moral and domestic truths to the point desired , we should exult in the means by which the ends were attained . After so copious an analysis we shall forbear to say any more of tins work ,
-than that it is far superior in design , incidents , characters , and execution , to the modern novels in general , and rises above Mr . Pratt ' s former productions - in this way . Moral Tales in Verse , founded on real Events . Written by Thomas Hull , of the Theatre Royal , Covem Garden . 2 vols . Svo . Price is . Cawthorn . MANKIND have generally conceded to the truth of the position , that
morality is never so alluring to the young mind , particularly , as when it is presented through the medium of a pleasing narrative . We are charmed with the incidents and characters of a story , and that which we admire in them we wish to have realized in ourselves ; or that which we abhor in the conduct of others , with whom the good are contrasted , appears doubly more odious in our estimation , from this combination and contrast . The highest of all authorities has given his sanction to this sentiment , and
to the utility of the practice here recommended , by ino $ t frequently using the parabolical method of instruction in bis public ministry . And moral writers of all countries have had recourse to this mode of exhibiting the beauty of virtue and the deformity of vice . The work now under our eye is a series of moral tales , told in an artless manner , and in smooth numbers , to aid the best of ail purposes , the bitterest of religion .
It is a valuable addition to the stock of entertaining morality , and is adT mirably fitted for the amusement and solid instruction of young persons . Most of the tales are addressed to some friend of the author , and the whole collection is inscribed , in a sensible Dedication , to the Duke of Leeds . The Preface so well expresses the writer ' s sentiments and design , that we shall take the liberty of extracting ft entire .
' The following little compositions , which I have dignified with the title of Moral Tales , have been the employment of several leisure hours , at different periods of time . Some of them have been written many years , as the respective dates specify , but none of them printed till now , except the last in the second volume , of which further mention shall be made in its proper place . < Mr . ADDISON describes himself , as always being possessed of a diposition
to examine such old prints and ballads as he saw pasted upon the walls of cottages , & c . I have not only discovered the same turn in myself , ( and would I could find something else more similar to that excellent writer !) but I have ever , even from childhood , felt my attention peculiarly engaged by stories related in company , which have contained in them , any thing of the marvellous and supernatural . Hence it is , probably , that I have so long retained many of the singular events whereop the ensuing compositions are
founded . ' I have been ( I can say it with great truth ) repeatedly urged to publish them by friends , who have seen the manuscripts . The reader , perhaps , will call them very partial friends : it may be so . And I am ready to acknowledge that , after a careful revisal , they are much better calculated to elicit the approbation of a kind heart , than to obtain the commendation of a critical judgment . ' s-