Excerpt from The Eclectic Review, Vol. 21: January-June, 1847 But things more glorious than military or monarchial power, have suffered a decline. The triumphs of genius are on the wane. Poetry is silent, or, if she sings at all, it is in accents which contrast meanly with the solemn sweetness of her earlier days. Painting and sculpture exist only in a few fading can vesses and mutilated marbles, which serve to show what the ancients could, and what their successors cannot, accomplish. Music has survived to a later period; ...
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Excerpt from The Eclectic Review, Vol. 21: January-June, 1847 But things more glorious than military or monarchial power, have suffered a decline. The triumphs of genius are on the wane. Poetry is silent, or, if she sings at all, it is in accents which contrast meanly with the solemn sweetness of her earlier days. Painting and sculpture exist only in a few fading can vesses and mutilated marbles, which serve to show what the ancients could, and what their successors cannot, accomplish. Music has survived to a later period; but Beethoven, ultimus Romanorum, has left none behind him worthy to unloose the shoe-latchets of his predecessors, Handel, Hadyn, or the old Italian masters. Oratory cannot boast of a happier fate. In England, its last refuge, have appeared and departed its last exemplars, Chatham, Pitt, Fox, Sheridan, and Burke. Philoso phy and science still live, it is true, but shorn of much of their ancient grandeur. Abandoning the mine of discovery as too deep, or as quite exhausted, they excavate no new systems, bring to light no startling revelations, but content themselves with the useful, though humbler, task of elaborating, combining and applying their rich inheritance of knowledge, derived from a succession of more inventive ages. Statesmanship, too, has lost its strength and dignity. It seems scarcely able to do anything but yield. It deals less in government than in con trivances how to recede before popular Opinion with safety, and a sufficiently decorous slowness. Look which way he will, the hero-worshipper is justified in adopting the lamentation of inspired wisdom, All is vanity and vexation of spirit.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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