The Spirit of the Age Or Contemporary Portraits: Or, Contemporary Portraits 1
The Spirit of the Age Or Contemporary Portraits: Or, Contemporary Portraits 1
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830
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He does not move in any given orbit, but, l^a faHiQ^ 88 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE. Star, shoots from his sphere. He is jMragma- tical, restless, unfixed, full of experiments, beginning every thing a-new, wiser than his belters, judging forhimself,dictatingto others. He is decidedly revolutionary. He may have I given up the reform of the state : but depend upon it, he has some other hobby of the same kind. Doeshenotdedicate to his present Majesty that extraordinary poem on ihe death of his felher, c...alled The Vision of Judgment^ as a specimen of what might be done in English hexameters? In a court-poem all should be trite and on an approved model. He might as well have presented himself at the levee in a fancy or masquerade dress; Mr. Southey was not to try conclusions with Majesty — slill less on such an occasion. The extreme free- doms with departed greatness, the party-pe- tulance carried to the Throne of Grace, the un- checked indulgence of private humour, the assumption of infallibility and even of the voice of Heaven in this poem, are pointed instances of what we have said.
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