Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . rllARLKS AND MAKV LAMll. IIY IRAXCIS STElUKX IAUEY.{Kifttonni Portnut Gallery.) who, indeed, is perhaps the most remarkable example in allliterature of a writer \vhose mere manner of sayint? the thmg—apart alto»ether from the wisdom, wit, humour, pathos, tenderness,m-banity of the thin- said, though in all of thrse qualities he isconspiruous-is anunfailing soune of delight. Something o same sort,
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . rllARLKS AND MAKV LAMll. IIY IRAXCIS STElUKX IAUEY.{Kifttonni Portnut Gallery.) who, indeed, is perhaps the most remarkable example in allliterature of a writer \vhose mere manner of sayint? the thmg—apart alto»ether from the wisdom, wit, humour, pathos, tenderness,m-banity of the thin- said, though in all of thrse qualities he isconspiruous-is anunfailing soune of delight. Something o same sort, though with an applieatiou to a tar more Imuted 40 PEACE, RETRENCnMEXT. JXD liEFOBM. [1815 list of qualities, may be said ot Walter Savage Laiidor (1775-1864), whose noble moiuiineutal style, far more truly andsuccessfully Greek than his attempted Hellenisings in verse, hasreconciled many a reader to as perversely ill-assorted a set ofpolitical and literary opinions as was ever begotten of the unionof Tory prejudices and Jacobin theories in the same person, andto as arrogantly tleriant a dogmatism as overweening pride of. THOJIAS DE , BV SIK J. WATSON UOBDOX, (Xntiottal Portmit <7alkrii,) intellect ever brought to their support. But the interest of DeQuincey is that of an experimenter and pioneer in English may, in feet, be described as the inventor of that variety ofprose—a questionable variety in the hands of many of hissuccessors—which has been named the poetic : a form inwhich, to attain the ends of vivid descri]iticin or of impassionednarrative, the restraints Avhich the elder prose-masters de-liberately imposed upon themselves in respect both of con-struction and vocabulary were as delilierately thrown off. Inother words, the attempt wiis for the first time made to arouse LTTEEATUJiE. 41 1832] emotions as vchcraciiL in the niiud of a reader through the,„e<liuin of prose as are or may be excited by theinstrumentality of verse. In some of
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