Excerpt from The Monthly Review, Vol. 2: From May to August Inclusive, 1836
We have not opened these volumes at any one page, and read a paragraph, without the conviction being forcibly conveyed, that the words came from a person of such accomplished authority, as to entitle him to the title of Oracle. Not that he can be said to be faultless, or devoid of prepossessions, such as he would have de tected, had he remained in England as many years as he spent months; but the grounds of his opinions and criticisms are so honestly and clearly stated, and the spirit with which they are de tailed so beautiful and kindly, that it seems the easiest, the most natural thing possible for him to dispose of abstruse doctrines, or such as have been per lexed by less skilful teachers in short, to be like his meat and rink, to combine profound speculations, and arduous exertion, in sweet and charming style.
Instead, however, of attempting to characterise and describe the general tenour of our author's Letters, we shall present a few notices of his history, and afterwards a more copious selection of extracts than is our wont from the works of visiters and tourists; thus enabling our readers to arrive at a much more correct estimate of his genius, doctrines, and acquirements, than any laboured por traiture could offer.
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