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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1830 Excerpt: ... racter and conduct, in one wide embrace of good-will. Estimated by the rule of mutual forbearance, the faults of the illustrious bard will, it is likely, be considered venial much rather than culpable. Weighed in the balance of Christian judgment, he will not be found wanting. 9. Verse Xlv. lines 8 and 9. Ay--and 'twas when thy ray, most bright and clear, Illumed, alas, it sank never to reappear! His exit from this mortal stage was like a brilliant sunset after a dark and stormy day. He died in Greece, a chieftain among Greeks that emulated the deeds of their fathers. With honour shall he be hereafter mentioned in the annals of an emancipated nation as one among the foremost to hail, to assist the struggle of independence. The day is at hand, nay, it now is, that he need no longer sing "Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow 1" The blow is struck: and with glory shall it be told by generations, as yet unborn, of Grecian freemen, how it was the bard of Britain first bid and first taught their ancestors to strike for liberty. Musing mournfully once on the hapless state of the pristine land of science and of virtue, and its future prospect, thus he sang:--"When riseth Lace-demon's hardihood, When Thebes' Epaminondas rears again, When Athens' children are with hearts endued, When Grecian mothers shall give birth to men, Then may'st thou be restored; but not till then." Men have sprung up, whose doings the page of ancient history would not blush to relate. The vampire burden of the Turkish yoke has been shaken off; the Moslem has trembled in the walls of Istamboul; and Greece has little to fear but from the jealous intervention of Christian powers. 10. Verse Xlvi. lines 1 and 2. To Hope's sweet minslrel is a tribute ...
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