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ment; and Acasto a mere walking old gentleman; how horrid, how absurd is the fraternal compact ! and how blameable the professed hypocrisy and deceit of Castalio; who will not own that he is justly punished, yet does not deplore that punishment in the end! This is the skill, the fancy, the irresistible witchery, of the poet, that elicits light from darkness; and averts the dazzled eye from deformity, by a soft insinuative enchantment of verbal delusion. Take away sentiment and diction, pathetic expostulation, and the voice of Nature personified, how will the splendid fabric vanish, and what shall we discover but licentiousness and disgust beneath this veil of roses! Such are the charms of appropriate and energetic

Glaucumque, Medontaque, Thersilochumque, men, as it is observed in the Spectator, whose lives are finely described in Holy Writ, by the path of an arrow, which passes and gone, leaving no trace behind.In composing an epitaph for one who has distinguished himself by his genius or benevolence, the greatest modesty and simplicity should be regarded, and in this the Greek inscriptions excel. Dr. Beattie's remarks on this subject (Letter cxxii. of his Life) are very correct. A little point, however, is not, on some occasions, without grace, but, in general, it is destructive of all effect and propriety. The Circumspice on Wren, in St. Paul's, is pleasing, and the point at the conclusion of that on the Countess of Pembroke is, as Addison says, "ve-language. ry noble."

"Death, ere thou hast kill'd another, "Fair, and learn'd, and good as she, "Time shall throw a dart at thee."

OTWAY.

In a work on Dramatic simplicity of sentiment and diction, by Thomas Dermody, is the following forcible and correct sketch of a poet, who often dazzles us when we ought to be offended.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

THE GENTLEMAN who favored us with materials for an important department of our paper, will accept our thanks we shall insert his communications with pleasure.

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THE LADIES, and we speak to them with pride, as numbering so many among our readers, shall find we are not forgetful of their amusements: they will read PALMYRA equally for the elegance of the poetry and the interesting nature of the tale.

Ir "A friend to honesty and candor" has no greater acquaintance with these characters than he has with judgment and understanding, he must be a misecriticism as jurisprudence, rable member of society. It is with

"What can I say of Otway; the plaintive, the tender, the soul-distracting Otway who, by some secret magic, can bid us at one moment pity and detest, scorn and admire, and shed the sympathising tear over the fall of vice itself? To "None e'er felt the halter draw, omit Venice Preserved, of which With good opinion of the law." the hero is a factious cut-throat, and We hope to stand on better terms with the second character an uxorious, "honesty and candor" than their pretreacherous, whimpering coward-tended "friend" and while we dislet us turn to the Orphan. Not to claim for a valuable correspondent say that Monimia is an exact sem- him, must congratulate him on that the motives impudently assigned to blance of a longing, irresolute, board- skill in archery which has brought the ing-school girl; Chamont an un-bird to his feet.

grateful, hot-headed bully, deserv- Several favors received will meet ating to be cashiered from any regis tention,

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MISS ROBINSON intends, at length, to give to the world a complete and ele gant edition of the "Poetical Works" of her mother, the late Mrs. Mary Robinson. The edition will include inany pieces never before published, and all those poems which were so popular in the life-time of the poetess, and which have now become so scarce as to be unattainable by the public.

Mr. HORNE has laid before the Rov. al Society of London a paper describing a particular affection of the prostrate gland. This disease, which occasioned so much pain, has hitherto been deemed irremidiable; but it is now hoped, the cause having been discovered, that this physiological discovery may prove of incalculable advantage in relieving the sufferings of patients supposed to be labouring under the effects of calculi, and other urinary diseases.

Dr. HERSCHEL has communicated a paper on the quantity and velocity of An edition of Dr. JOHNSON's "Po-the solar motion, from which he illusets" is printing in the cheap and com- trates the causes of the sidereal mopressed form of eight or ten volumes, tions applied to stars of six different magnitudes.

octavo.

It appears that the late beautiful Mrs. Mr. ROBERT HALLET, 'of Axmin CROUCH Wrote "Memoirs" of her che-ster, has discovered that the striped or quered life, which are in the press, and will soon appear in two volumes small

octavo.

A new edition of Dr. CARR'S "Lucian" is in the press.

A publication is preparing for the press, in successive numbers and volumes, to be entitled: "The fathers of the English Church; or a Selection from the Writings of the Reformers, and early Protestant Divines of the Church of England."

ribbana grass, is found to be very excellent food for cattle; that it produces an earlier crop than most other grass, and that it will bear cutting three or four times during the summer; of course het recommends the culture of it to far-4 mers in general.

Mr. MILLIN has exhibited to the different classes of the National Institute of France, a head in flint, of large dimensions, and in a good style, the whole surface of which is covered with We are informed of a society lately a brilliant and milky white. This head instituted, under the name of the Lon- was found in one of the gardens near don Architectural Society, consisting Paris, on the spot formerly known by of professional gentlemen and amateurs, the name of Ternes. A head in flint is who have united together for the ad- itself an extraordinary circumstance, vancement of the art, and for mutual because the difficulty of working that improvement, by liberal intercourse. material is very great, and it does not The ordinary members engage to fur-possess sufficient beauty to be worth the nish, in rotation, designs and essays on subjects connected with civil architecture, which are to be read and examined at the meetings of the society, which are to be held once a fortnight during about eight months in the year. These designs and essays are to remain the property of the Society, who intend to publish annually a selection from the Essays.

Dr. WOLCOT (Peter Pindar) has lately retired from London to Fowey, in Cornwall, where he has taken up his residence with two surviving sisters. An affection of the eyes renders the exercise of his pen unpleasant to him, but the flights of his genius, vigorous and unique as ever, are recorded by an amanuensis; and he continues a lively correspondence with a few select friends in the metropolis.

trouble. It still remains to ascertain whether the covering is a chalcedonic stratum formed by nature in the earth, or whether it was produced by art.The first class of the Institute has nominated perso.:3 to examine this extraordinary monument, and to draw up a report on the subject.

Among the prizes proposed this year by the Imperial Academy of Wilnaio Poland, is one of 200 ducats for an anal ysis of political economy, shewing in what points the fundamental ideas of Adam Smith and Dr. Quesnay agree, or those in which they differ are totally opposite.

Professor TRRSCHOW, of Copenhagen, has been occupied during the present winter, in a course of lectures on An thropology, in which he has severely criticised the speculations of Dr. Gall

For the Emerald.

POETRY.

Your praise to write-your matchless love to shew.

PETITION TO THE MARITIME DEI. Tell me, hast thou ne'er seen in blush

TIES.

On a young Lady's sailing for Virginía.

O THоU wat'гy Deity,
Ruler of the raging sea;
Circled by thy firing slaves,
Moderator of the waves;
Neptune, potent god, who reigns:
Emp'ror of the liquid plains,
My petition condescend
In thy goodness to attend--
Tis not for myself, but friend;
On the wide extending seas,
Which thy mighty power obeys,
Myra, beautiful and fair,

Who with more than mortal air
Reigns Beauty's self: Britania's boast,
Seeks to gain Virginia's coast:
-Grant, O God, the swelling sails
May with thy propitious gales.
Be (while winds the canvass court)
Wafted to the wish'd-for port.
-Oceanus seems to be
Conscious of the dignity,
Proud the burden to sustain.
Rears his frost-befoamed mane.
Rough Eolus, hear my prayer
Make the ship thy greatest care,
Thy loud storms and blasts withhold:
Th' angelic Myra on the main
Seeks Virginia's coast to gain,

A treasure more rich than gold.
Zephyr, soft, benign and fair
Make the happy bark, thy care
Let thy choicest, briskest breeze
Skimming o'er the furrow'd seas,
Fill the sails and safely land
All upon the wish'd-for strand.

MESSRS. EDITORS,

POLLIO.

ing morn

A rose-bud blooming, nature to adorn:
Your sex by thee is thus adorn'd, and

blest

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row,

Oh take me to some place of rest,

Where I may slumber till tomorrow You view my face it once was fair,

At least so said my charming Harry, But he is gone, and black despair

Is all that's left to wand'ring Mary. No thief am I as some allege,

Though sore hath cold and hunger
try'd me;

I pluck the haw-berry from the hedge,
When human aid is oft denied me.
But hush my babe! though large the
load

Of woes that we are doom'd to carry ;
Within some cold grave's bleak abode,
You'll sweetly sleep with wand'ring
Mary.

Verses by Mr. POPE, on reading a Poem entitled, "A Fit of the spleen." WHAT are the falling rills, and pendant shades,

nades ;

By inserting the following lines, you The morning bow'rs, and evening colowill oblige a constant reader. Cambridge.

yours, W.

To Miss ****.

AH sweetest girl, how happy is thy lot! By some thou'rt envy'd, but by none forgot:

Be this my theme-this be my pleasure too,

But soft recesses of th' uneasy mind,
To sigh unheard into the passing wind?
So struck the deer in some seques-

ter'd part,
Lies down to die the arrow in his heart;
There hid in shades, and pining day by

day;

Inly be bleeds, and melts his soul away

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And from those eyes still brilliant with

the ray

Of former joy, the rushing tears must pour :

Far, far away thy only hope shall goBritain's proud banners fly upon the

coast;

Embattl❜d are the sons, and every voice Calls for Lysander, still to lead them on. Lysander goes, and granted to her

prayers,

Her looks persuasive, & her frantic sobs, Palmyra journeys with him: to the gales Of piercing Belgia she commits her

form,

And looks undaunted on the fields of ice! Ah! no more Palmyra sees the red sun Sink in peace, o'er rocks illum'd with

gold,

And marks with soothing melancholy,

rise

The moon, slow glimmering on the tepid wave.

No more she rambles thro' the quiet wood

When all is hush'd, and silence, night,

and calm,

Lock the whole world in slumber; she must now

Sit lonely in the tent, and trembling wait The doubtful issue of the unequal fight; Yet still, o'er good Lysander's warlike head

Heav'n spreads its shield defensive, and preserv'd

The little remnant of his days for her.

And now from Albion's native coast arrives

The bark full-fraught with many a val iant heart

Thine, O Pyrocles! madden'd with its fire;

Yet in his proud veins beat a stronger pulse,

For love ungrateful, for perfidious charms

Once thought his own-now barter'd

for a name :

And came to bury, in his first campaign, Either his form amid a heap of foes, Or banish pashion for a nobler flame. To him, Palmyra lov'd to tell her griefs, To mourn o'er gallant enemies, or pour The tender flood for each familiar facePyrocles heard, and mixed his tears with hers;

But his flowed deeper, for his bitter fate Poison'd the source of pure humanity: He wept himself, and thought but of

his love.

Yet, (for he saw her lovely, and he found Her artless sweetness penetrate his soul)

He sought her paths, and as her pitying sighs

Answer'd his own, he felt his grief less strong;

But still, for Lesbia false, he rav'd and wept,

And all the live-long night his pillow'd

couch

Steep'd he, in tears of bitterness and

truth.

(To be continued.)

Boston, Mass.) Published BY BELCHER & ARMSTRONG,

No. 70, State Street

SEMPER

REFULGET.

No. 29.

Boston, Saturday, November 15, 1806.

ORIGINAL PAPERS.

FOR THE EMERALD.

THE WANDERER,

No. 54.

Come listen to a tale of times of old,
.... and you shall hear
How MADOC from the shores of Britain
spread

The adventurous sail, explared the Ocean

ways

And quelled Barbarian power...

AN edition of Madoc, has lately issued from the press of Messrs. Munroe & Francis. It is a popular and interesting story, and may be justly considered an acquisition to the literature of the country, but a work of this nature should not be spoken of without discrimination. It must of necessity be deversified with unequal merit; contain some passages which the most favorable critic would censure, and others) which the most fastidious would approve. We propose, therefore, to . make some remarks on the fable, the style and the versification, expecting merely to evince that the general sentiment, it excited was not a decision without judgment.

first source of personal honor. Virgil gratified the Roman vanity by tracing their original to the heroesof Troy and the offspring of deity. The epic poems of modern times have been raised on the exploits of national valor, except the Paridise Lost and Regained, which by a grander contrivance allied to themselves an equal interest among all mankind. But Madoc is supposed to have lived at a time of such rude antiquity and to have displayed his adventurous achievements among a people of such novel and singular simplicity that we become interested in it more by uncorrupt and native feelings, than any that are acquired in society.

for the originality of his fable may How far Southey deserves credit be matter of enquiry. The subject is partly of doubtful tradition, and partly historical certainty.

The

country and the people, whose systems, manners and superstitions form a very considerable part of the have been known and described interest, which the poem excites, from the first landing of Europeans tions of Americans along the Misat St.Salvadore, to the recent expedisouri. He had not then, like Shakespeare, to imagine new worlds, or like Milton, to people the airy creaMadoc derives no interest from tion of fancy with beings of almost national partialities. The Illiad of indescribable habit. The country Homer recounted the exploits of and its inhabitants, their occupatheir ancestors to a people who re-tions serious and gay, were known garded ancestorial greatness as the already to every thing but poesy

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