The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-25 00:00:00

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WITH THE INCOMO - X
" Piers, I have not been idle,
I never ate the bread of indolence ;
Could Alice be more thrifty than her mother?
Yet, with but one child—and that one how good
Thou knowest—l scarcely can provide the want.%
Of nature ; look at these wolves of the law,
They come to drain me of my hard-earned wages.
I have already paid the heavy tax
Laid on the wool that clothes me—on my leather,
And all the needful articles of life !
And now three groats (and I worked hard to earn
them)
The Parliament demands—and I must pay them,
,„,;)
Forsooth, for liberty.to wear my hea,d.'
Sir Robert Peel, by his impoSs°ituioTnuoEfY
adopts the same regulations as were adopted in 15"0,
with some slight modifications,_ and which were found. s .
intolerable in 1816, that the Government of the Tories,
:rgto!
then crowned with glory by the victories of W(1
and when the nation was intoxicated by success, was co% I
pelled by the remonstrances of an indignant
up the tax.—Daily Paper. 'tsheiVienteoTtnyele
Out roll the words like bell-strokes, Sirs,
Ominous strokes and strong,
Such as belfries roll, people to give'
Or tocsins toll,
When a people groans in wrong
Like sounds of seas,
Or forests a-roar,
lOtensitshteanbere pour:—oad-wined breeze
• Round the land let speed the terrible shout,
Like the vestal fire that
hams through
not out:—
Letiwspread)oitNWlTH H
as the I
flNacmoe3sal TAX."throu fields of fla*
Brothers ! shall we—the self-same Men, , Dr,
Who scouted this Tax—this slave-badge---4`"
The great Duke came from his battles bold , d
And England's brows in his war-wreaths rolie
Shall we—who then like God's elate,
Had smiled to grant each need of State,
So well were fears in victories calmed A
And hearts high-pulsed and triumph charme"'—.
Shall we—who then indignant sprung
And forth our just repugnance flung,--
Who deemed this tax a wrong and crime
In that so glorious—golden time—
Now bend to it, like pliant wax ?
Now fawn to it with bows and kneeling ?
No—roll the words like bell-strokes pealing
" DOWN WITH THE INCOME TAX !"

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LITERAT U RE.
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GISIPP US. A Ploy. Maxwell, _London,
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At the period when this play was written, ;.`Ar+.icer),
raid Griffin, the author, had not completed, 'fiowa
tieth year, which will account for those hir-deals•
views of human nature in which he too often 00
Gisippus indeed, is little more than a rhaPseuivid,
Friendship—such a rhapsody as a youthful, rid].
and ingenious mind would be most likely to inc3ead,
Pity that the progress of time and experienceTcy of
of confirming, should only show the utter fad that
a young man's exalted notions of humanity 1111„/.0--
the lofty and disinterested friendship which be ;0 the
judging by his oivn heart—believed to exist mere
world, he should afterwards discover to be !Ojai
phantom, conjured up by the imagination, an ° „on
away before the strengthening daylight of re-gr.
Nevertheless, strained and improbable as are
1,1100
Griffin's ideas of the disinterestedness of for
nature, as exemplified in the character
tunes of his hero, Gisippus, we read nis.:
with interest and even emotion, for there 1" thatquestioning the strong earnestness and sincerity
breathes through it. While cold, distrustful Oki,
is compelled to enter her protest against the jilt
bility of the earlier scenes, wherein the isted
Gisippus is exhibited as a prodigy of disinteliiig
and magnanimous friendship, the heart is still °PO+ ,
to be duped into the belief that they are true °rid
for the delusion is at least a sunny and a cheectet,
one. But while we object to the principal theta
and some of the incidents of our author's , ,
have no fault to find with his language, which; .541,0 t;
formly nervous and uftaffected, collateral iLoir
being homely, and though in places a little tn,e ,03
berant, perhaps, yet never wholly losing sight el,
taste. We may add, that it is thickly bestreweubs't if :';
the rich lights of a glowing, poetic fancy, and shad s
it has been studiously elaborated, Mr. Griffin °ltoete,
the rare art in a great degree to conceal his art.
for instance, is a passage on the common-place 'reat
of Love, which is handled, appal antly, with grill.'
ease, though, we doubt not, it was wrought uP
considerable care :
" Aye—passion bath its change of seasons, sir.
And 'twere as vain to hope eternal Summer,
As an eternal faith.—This is with you
The Spring of courtship—which calls up the flower°
°
The fairest flowers of Love—your blooming fancies! toyer.
Your fragrant love thoughts, murmuring vows--snu P
But even as nature's spring—love's too must roll
Away—and then comes your alored honeymoon
Love's Summer of enjoyment—next his autumn
Of lukewarm liking, verging to indifference. ~„
The time of shrugs, and yawns, and absent thong
n'
And then his winter comes—frosty and dry,
' Sharp, biting, bitter—cunning in cold taunts--
Making the evening hearth, so late a paradise'
A place of harsh uneomfort. —Then, 0 Lovel
How suddenly thy changeful votaries ,
,to
Find thy Elysium void !—from the pale poet,
Who wooed the groves in song-lorn melancholy,
To him the blustejing terror of the field, ttlf
Who sighed like Boreas and made love like war—
.:,;;
All, weary grown of the ignoble bondage,
Look back with scorn upon the yoke they ve spurned,
And wonder how the silly toy had power „
To make them sin so palpably 'gainst wisdom.
An ordinary sentiment, as regards female
is thus eloquently expressed :
" Your eagle spirits are too grand for me ;
Such forms may grace a painter's canvass win', ,43.4
Grouped in a legend of the commonwealth,
- 't
But by an evenino• fire are cold companions--
- Woman was made for love, and not for wonder 0v
Give me the pliant, soft, and human fair, to I:qt,
But Heaven defend me from your soaring beaulijah n
As might be expected from the age at irv_,,%,toncye
Griffin wrote his play, there are numerous tluestre,
allusions to woman, and the beng cent ode'
which it is ever in her power to exert over t s:-.-
sex. We subjoin one or two of these passlige
"Oh woman, what an empty boaster man is, got'''
When he would strive against your empire !
When he would soar at lonely excellence, !
Ye cling upon him with your potent weakness

And when he is content to creep beside yef
In the dull circle of material happiness,

Ye fire him with a longing aftei greatness ,
He hath the strength of the huge ocean-weve'cs
But you—you are the planet by whose inflect' WO
It mounts or falls." the %lea
The expression " potent weakness" in act ' test
passage is very felicitous, conveying the Obe oilia
that the author desired to convey, and in tg 1"
terms. A tamer and more methodical fanc•natsis
have shrunk from it, startled at the seelninlgkiht, in
it implied ; but to weigh, and hesitate, an' , doll 0
o vo
not the way to succeed in poetry, any Ino-r:ver el
love. "Faint heart," says the old adage, Ilthe is,°ol,
fair lady;" neither did it ever yet win otelito
crown. The sentiment expressed in thestroPile
extract will remind the reader of a fine LIP° ...--
wedded love in one of the plays of Middleton
" How pure, how holy is the sacrifice
That waits on virtuous Love! How sa.red is
IntoTTheme pfiaeesrrteyi
du
b zealuyn mildthatw a st i
enYsgat
es
vestalse imon a knni
idoahwmos
el, i
ei
The very levity we wake to honour it !
satthreevreerence
That wanders nor decays. Al! so!'t affeetl'
Calm hopes, and quiet blessings 'nover reu"., it.“ de'
And soft Peace sheds her virtuous dews uP°7ovrifig e,
There is much force and vour in the fo" ic nats4,
scription of a dull, heartless, tame, and letha,rfably ill
_Pelf
such a one as Voltaire has hit. ff so achnl.ed hin'o'n.
sketch of Signor Prococurante, who fanned of
a philosopher, simply because he was lira
derstanding, and callous of heart : „eein
" Gods! There are men upon this earth wh°like
So mixed and moulded with that earth--s°
Mere dull, material engines—that for all
The purposes for which man looks to man' 0 e !,'
It were as well a piece of curious wiecharossemblaile, wive
Walked in humanity's name, and wore its.,.nes 019' race
We throw together a few insulated n bv the g
pleased us, either by their sentiment, °r ''
and spirit of the expression :
" As the mad promise of thewildest hope
That ever killed content."
slumber,
~ The gratitude that must be roused from , .
Is never worth the waking."
God ! 1
The joy of hunting after Death, when it the raPture'
Grown hopeless, golds us to the chase bought'
Amid the roar of fight that shuts out t it ;
Of rushing to his blood•red arms !"
..e
was stung '0!
" True, he had wronged me, and my Pilai;
Alas, you know not, friend, how qu'e.t,-
And silently that same tall fabric.. Pride,
Is sapped and scattered by A dversity, n ,_ken !" . ,_,,,
E'en while we deem it still unmoved, u "1' :..en Us:.
have here gil 4;f the
From the passages which we
reader will be able to form a very fall' eesxthilinbiais'eaoParti°:
poetical character of Gisippus, h
w olductions of g fied
mise not often witnessed in the p 1..% Griffin, Avef his
thor, not yet out of his teens. iur
scarcely' add, was cut off in the
_Nd'eNr‘.3",ersePrfiurlgly°cliell(i
career, before the powers of his In
he lived, and not belied the
Pronicted from •hinl ,nr1(1
we might reasonably have
exPe such as the vb
loped, or he himself was aware niofitshe
sterling work of imagination,
would not willingly let die.
.g.! lif"
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