text: " It is rather we say on account of such lines as these (no picture of tropical loveliness ever surpassed in our opinion the description printed in italics) that we admire "Locksley Hall " than on account of the troubled passions which it embodies; knowing as we do that poetry has nobler offices to perform than to fulmine forth fierce and sarcastic invectives against the head of a jilt; and if as Mr Tennyson says "love is love for evermore " we would ask even him why he did not make the lover in "Locksley Hall" betray even in spite of himself a more pitiful tenderness for the devoted heroine of the tale? How different the strain of the manly Schiller under similar circumstances! _His_ bitterness cannot be restrained from breaking down at last in a flood of tenderness over the lost mistress of his affections