The book A Memorial of the Rev. John Snelling Popkin .. was written by author C C Cornelius Conway Felton Here you can read free online of A Memorial of the Rev. John Snelling Popkin .. book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Memorial of the Rev. John Snelling Popkin .. a good or bad book?
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I find some relief in supposing that they were mostly poetical creations, and never, in so high a degree of violence, actual perpetrations. Of this distinction I have seen many evidences. I find my gratification in the parts, the passages, and the verses, rather than in the whole and in the conclu- •sion; in the filling, as we may say, rather than in the warp of the web of fate. The idea of a fixed, irrational, irresistible fate, driving, men on to inev- itable crimes and horrors, against their... resolute will and desperate resistance, to me is dreadful, and atheistical ; but perhaps it did not appear so 234 SELECTIONS OF LECTURES. to the authors, who studied only to produce a strong character and a powerful impression. But the particular sentiments, in the progress of the work, are often favorable to virtue. And as works of art and power, the dramatic vsn-itings are count- ed among the chief works of Grecian genius. I would consider them as poems to be read, rather than as scenes to be acted.
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