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Excerpt from The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse, Viz: Our Village, Belford Regis, Country Stories, Finden's Tableaux, Foscari, Julian, Rienzi, Charles the First
It should. Perhaps. Be owned in speaking of Ila-tie tillage sketches. That thur writer enamels too brightly - not the hedge-rots and the mea dov. Atreains. The orchards and the cottage gar. Dens. For who could exceed nature - but the figures shtch people the scene that her countr boys and t Ill-tg't' girls are too refined. Too constant y turned to favour and to pretttiieaa. But this ?attery only iihows to us the health and trenevo. Lcnce of mind belonging to the writer; nor would it be 10 to count it as a fault. Unless we also were to denounce ('rabbc as an unlaithl'ul painter of English life and scenery. Because. U tth a ten dency diamitrtcslly opposite, he lingers like a loser tn the workhouse and the hovel. And duells rather upon decay. And meanness. And min ry. Than the prosperity and charity and comfort sith which thetr gloom is so largely chequered. He may be called the t'aravaggto. Miss Mitford the Claude. Ot' tillage life tn England; and the truth lies between them. Both. Hoa ever. Are remarli able hit the purity and selectness of their lan. Fuage; both paint vrith wordse in a manner as aitlit'ul as it is llmtftcoi'll t'rabbe should be re. Sencd for those bright moments when the too buoy ant spirits require a chastener. A memento ol' the days of darkness Nu. Mttford resorted to in hours of depre-ion and ?ltlgl?n'. When any book bearing an olivc.branch to tell us that there is fair weather abroad. Is a blessed visitaiit.
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