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Review Of New Publications.
The Sicilian Lever , a Tragedy in Fi-ve A 3 s . By Mrs . Mary Robinson , Author of Poems , Angelina , & c . & c . Hookham and Carpenter . 179 G . S-i > o . . ' pages So . IN our Review of a former month v .-e gave that tribute of praise , which we conceived to be so justly due , to Mrs . Robinson ' s Novel of Angelina : and , Though we will not attempt to rank the present dramatic performance with the best of her works of other kinds , yet we have found in it much to admire .
In many parts , the poetry is very beautiful ; but we would not recommend tragedy to the fair authoress -. for when there are so many other kinds of writing in which she has such transcendent excellence , why should not her fine talents be exercised upon them ? To walk the mazy labyrinth of the passions , and to follow them in all their sudden turns and windings , is not , in our opinion , a task suited to Mrs . Robinson . Wh y then should she write only to please , when she has so many ways of making us admire " wonder
rapt ! '" The genius of Mrs . Robinson , employed as Jong on any other work suited to it , as it must have been on the Sicilian Lover , would have produced a finished piece . Cui lecta potenter erit res Nee facundia deseret banc Hor . The true turn of the Genius of the writer is evident throughout this tragedy : for it is in the poetical and descriptive parts that she is most happy .
As a proof of this , we extract the following lines which would alone place their author very high among the poets of this country . This is the hour , when on yon lofty terrace Honoria comes to taste the evening air , And , with the dulcet tinkling of her lute , J 3 it ] the lorn nightingale forget his tale And pause in wonder rapt ! The crimson west
Gilds the grey battlements with blushing gold ! And viewless myriads o ' er the fainting flow ' rs , Close their long sultry day with humming song ! As through the valley pensively 1 wander'd , At ev ' ry cottage door the weary hind Sat ' midst his infant race , with ditty old , Cheating the ttav'ller Time ; while twilight's hand O ' er the still landscape drew a dusky veil . Ere now , the freckled carle forgets the world , And in his unbarr'd chamber sweetly sleeps , Lull'd bv the music of the mountain breeze ' .
It may perhaps appear invidious to have selected this passage from many others equally good ; but justice compels us to add one to the many other proofs of Mrs . R ' s genius . Camilla : ' or , a Pi-Sure of Youth . . By the Author of Evelina and Cecilia . 1 zmo . 5 Volumes . Pages about 2300 . Price 11 s Payne . AFTER the volumes of trash , which are daily obtruded on public
notice , we are pleased to find the elegant pen of Mrs . D'Arblay again emloyed in Novel writing . It hardly need be added that it has been employed with its usual success . To enter into a regular critique of five volumes , considerably larger than any we ever remember to have read , is not permitted us by the limits of our publication . The outline of the story may be traced in the youthful errors of the Nieces of Sir Hugh Tyrold , a Country Baronet , whose sole aim throughout is to add all he can to the happiness of his . fellowcreatures ; but a variety of other characters are occasionally introduced- to relieve the picture , and many of them origiiuls .
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Review Of New Publications.
The Sicilian Lever , a Tragedy in Fi-ve A 3 s . By Mrs . Mary Robinson , Author of Poems , Angelina , & c . & c . Hookham and Carpenter . 179 G . S-i > o . . ' pages So . IN our Review of a former month v .-e gave that tribute of praise , which we conceived to be so justly due , to Mrs . Robinson ' s Novel of Angelina : and , Though we will not attempt to rank the present dramatic performance with the best of her works of other kinds , yet we have found in it much to admire .
In many parts , the poetry is very beautiful ; but we would not recommend tragedy to the fair authoress -. for when there are so many other kinds of writing in which she has such transcendent excellence , why should not her fine talents be exercised upon them ? To walk the mazy labyrinth of the passions , and to follow them in all their sudden turns and windings , is not , in our opinion , a task suited to Mrs . Robinson . Wh y then should she write only to please , when she has so many ways of making us admire " wonder
rapt ! '" The genius of Mrs . Robinson , employed as Jong on any other work suited to it , as it must have been on the Sicilian Lover , would have produced a finished piece . Cui lecta potenter erit res Nee facundia deseret banc Hor . The true turn of the Genius of the writer is evident throughout this tragedy : for it is in the poetical and descriptive parts that she is most happy .
As a proof of this , we extract the following lines which would alone place their author very high among the poets of this country . This is the hour , when on yon lofty terrace Honoria comes to taste the evening air , And , with the dulcet tinkling of her lute , J 3 it ] the lorn nightingale forget his tale And pause in wonder rapt ! The crimson west
Gilds the grey battlements with blushing gold ! And viewless myriads o ' er the fainting flow ' rs , Close their long sultry day with humming song ! As through the valley pensively 1 wander'd , At ev ' ry cottage door the weary hind Sat ' midst his infant race , with ditty old , Cheating the ttav'ller Time ; while twilight's hand O ' er the still landscape drew a dusky veil . Ere now , the freckled carle forgets the world , And in his unbarr'd chamber sweetly sleeps , Lull'd bv the music of the mountain breeze ' .
It may perhaps appear invidious to have selected this passage from many others equally good ; but justice compels us to add one to the many other proofs of Mrs . R ' s genius . Camilla : ' or , a Pi-Sure of Youth . . By the Author of Evelina and Cecilia . 1 zmo . 5 Volumes . Pages about 2300 . Price 11 s Payne . AFTER the volumes of trash , which are daily obtruded on public
notice , we are pleased to find the elegant pen of Mrs . D'Arblay again emloyed in Novel writing . It hardly need be added that it has been employed with its usual success . To enter into a regular critique of five volumes , considerably larger than any we ever remember to have read , is not permitted us by the limits of our publication . The outline of the story may be traced in the youthful errors of the Nieces of Sir Hugh Tyrold , a Country Baronet , whose sole aim throughout is to add all he can to the happiness of his . fellowcreatures ; but a variety of other characters are occasionally introduced- to relieve the picture , and many of them origiiuls .