young hearts

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young hearts

To us, whose young hearts and ears were enchained by the spells of these mighty masters when first breathed forth, it is a calm and elevating source of pleasure to sit, in our green old age, feeding on their melodious verse and inspiring thoughts, and endeavouring to apportion to each his relative degree of merit. It has often occurred to us that the generation which has come to maturity subsequently to the time when their, works were ushered into the world, may not be indisposed to listen to our oomments. The reception given to the notices of Shelley which have prompted these reminiscences, and our faith in that "preestablished harmony" between the writing public's propensity to gossip and the reading public's propensity to listen, which we have acknowledged we hold, encourage us to proceed.Shelley is not exactly the one of the gifted band who illustrated the close of the eighteenth and the opening of the nineteenth centuries whom we should have chosen to. begin with, had we contemplated essaying a profound and systematic series of criticisms. The relation in which he stands to others, both in respect of chronological sequence and of greatness and originality, would have assigned him another place. But as it is the accident of the reawakened attention to his writings which has suggested the papers of which this is the first, it seems more in accordance with their unambitious character to follow the first hint, and discourse first of him Tory Burch Shoes whom accident thus recalls to our memory.A more systematic and exhaustive criticism might have called for an arrangement in accordance with the following Tory Burch Outlet considerations.Coleridge and Wordsworth, whose earlier poems were composed upona preconceived theory, and published together, first require our attention. Southey, the friend and intimate associate of both, although not to the full extent a participator in their literary theories, is entitled to the next notice, Tory Burch Flats as having walked along with them, although hand passibus cequis. Scott, a poet of a very different class, comes next in order, owing to the influence which the communication of the yet unpublished verses of Coleridge and Wordsworth by their friend Stoddart exercise both on his sentiments and versification.