sporting _in_ the sheen....

"And so forth.

"And yet this whole passage, and what follows, is really imaginative and
picturesque, but spoilt by carelessness, carelessness, carelessness.
Either write verses, we say again, or prose. And unless the metre and
accent coincide with the sense, and make music when read merely as prose
is read, the lines are a makeshift and a failure, and neither worth
writing or reading, though they were as fanciful and overloaded as Mr.
Browning's, or as grandiloquent and sugary as Mr. ---- Who's?"

* * * * *

Lord Brougham, who next to the Duke of Wellington is now unquestionably
the first man of the British Empire, a few days ago in the House of
Lords complained of an instance of libel of a species which is extremely
common in the United States, and which is of all species the most
irritating and offensive. Lord Brougham observed, that no one who had
lived so long as he had in Parliament had ever taken notice so seldom of
any libellous matter published, or of any breach of privilege committed
against him. He might also add, that no person had ever been more the
object of the most indiscriminate, and he might say the most absurd and
the most unfounded abuse. Nevertheless, in all such cases he had adopted
a neutral course, and had left the truth to come out in the natural
lapse of events. There was, however, one species of breach of privilege
which he had never been disposed to pass unnoticed. Attacks one must
undergo. To be exposed to attacks was the fate of all men who lived in
public. No man ought to shrink from or be too sensitive to attacks; but,
under pretence of stating what a lord had said in Parliament, to put
words into his mouth which he had never uttered, for the purpose, the
express purpose, of calumniating him,--words which the writer of the
calumny must have well known that he had never uttered, to put such
words into his mouth for such a purpose, formed a case in which he
thought that the party calumniated was bound to bring the party so
offending under the notice of their lordships. Lord Brougham proceeded
to arraign the _Daily News_ for an example of this crime which would
have done no dishonor to the inventive faculties of the _Literary
World_.

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