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Newspaper
Champion
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 14, 1816
Page
3
The text laments the Poet Laureate's waning fire as he wields the lyre and laments the loss of the laurel instrument. It praises ancient bards like Homer and Ben in comparison to a modern laureate whose music lacks vigor. The note hopes for restoration of the perquisite and suggests the sackbut as the laureate’s instrument.
In a Cowper letter, Johnson’s Life of Milton is condemned as merciless and cruel unjustly smearing Milton’s character. The critique notes harsh judgments of Milton as man and poet, ridicules Lycidas, praises Paradise Lost as majestic, and mocks Johnson for attacking English blank verse and Milton’s language.
Literature note on Warper a prefatory commentary. Peregrine visits Paris and major sites like the National Institute and Luxembourg Gallery, described with wit and restraint. The reviewer finds the letters amused by daily scenes, not reforms, with occasional pedantic detail and Sabbath observations.
A reader passage praises Talma in the role of Tamlet and notes the French version mirrors English Shakespeare with fixes for the French stage. The article remarks the ghost scene is toned down, the soliloquy resembles To be or not to be but is altered, and the chamber scene with Hamlet and his mother appears, though Laertes and Ophelia are absent.
A review notes Mr. Dwarks two cantos celebrate the Waterloo battle with flowing verse and animated description. It praises vivid battle scenes, depictions of Scottish soldiers, and Wellington as a savior, though acknowledges some faults but overall regards the poem as meritorious within the crowded field of war depictions.
A reader writes praising the Italian and Roman Masters exhibition at the British Gallery. They laud the room as a perfect plysium with divine works full of intrinsic beauty and rich associations, though they claim no pretensions to criticism.
In a lively appraisal, D. B. C. extols Poussin for his mythic visions and Salvator’s dramatic contrasts as highlights of the current Exhibition. He praises The Bacchanalian Dance No. 122, Death of Tancred, Jupiter suckled by a Goat, and Salvator’s Death of Regulus, plus a stark alpine landscape with a lone bull. Titian, Guido, and a sleeping Alonzo Cana babe receive admiration for depth, grace, and lifelike detail.
The case features Mrs Martha Wootten a 40 year old widow suing a well off defendant. After her husband’s death she took a boarding house for a lodger. The defendant allegedly became intimate but the record ends with unclear events and dates.
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