And thunders from the strings with pro phet fire: ter's meaning. Hence numerous er rors are unavoidably made in the first instance, which are afterwards overlooked by the author in examining the proof sheets; for how rare to find an author who is capable of reading the of accuracy, and least of all qualified to proof sheets with any tolerable degree read a proof of his own work Feels his superior force-tears wildly filled to the minute drudgery of scrutinizFor in the first place he is not habituatHer eyes indignant-pride and ras-ing letter by letter and point by point; Her soul with pangs, she cannot, wretching the proof sheet of his composition and then when he fancies himself readTo veil her shame from sight away she he is reading his memory, and rather flies: Loath'd is the light-too close the spa-per it actually is. what it ought to be than what on the pa cious hall, [appal, While with a look that might his soul She winks her slaves to bear the rebel from her eyes. The hero on its bold responsive tone Dares faith & feeling for another own, And rows that heaven and earth can wake no new desire. Firm was his tone, his high heroic look Glow'd like a god.-Th' enchantress, 'gainst her will. sion shook [disguise This has partially the appearance of errors of the press. But yet correct an apology and may often excuse the ness is part of the printer's task, and though we say sometimes there is fails on both sides, yet we know that to both author and printer incorrect printing a grievous drawback on excellence. CRITICAL ACCURACY. Ir is beautifully remarked by Saint Pierre, The weasel and the moth oblige the wealthy monopolizer to bring his goods to market, and by destroying the wardrobes of the opulent they give bread to the industrious. Were grain as incorThe following is said to be taken ruptible as gold it would be soon as and serves as a specimen of the from the MSS. of Anthony Wood, scarce, and we ought to bless the hand that created the insect that logic and learning which prevailed obliges them to sift, turn and ulti-at Oxford in the beginning of the mately to bring the grain to public 14th century. j −2613 sale. In king Edward 2d. time, as I remember, at which time the Uni FROM THE PORT-FOLIO OF A JOUR-versity of Oxford was much addict ** NEYMAN PRINTER. ed to the learning of those who by some were called Nominals, for that they were strict in examining the nature and meaning of every word, Merton College being seated upon the walls, and the Master and Fel lows of the house being desirous of walking on the meadows that lay close to the walls, thought good to send three of their company to the King then at Woodstock. These being admitted into his presence, one of them signified to his majesty that they were sent by the college Typographic errors! No sir. By far the greater part of the errors which disgrace the productions of the modern press are autorial over. sights. Too many of our writers are accustomed to send their manuscripts to the press in so slovenly a state, so illegibly written, so carelessly punctuated, so larded with interlineations, so loaded with blots, so cropped with abreviations, so enigmatized with insertions and repetitions and alterations and explications separately scrawled on detached pieces of paper like the sybils' oracles on the leaves of trees, that we journeymen printers (and few of us are professed conjurera) frequently need all to implore licentiam faciendi ostium, the sagacity of an Edipus, with the keen a licence or liberty to make a door. of a Lynceus to decypher a wri-The second, presently interrupting Tonsor ego; vultus radendo spumeus albet Mappa subest, ardet culta & unda tepet Dextera quam rapido gladium rotat impete, culter Mox tua tam celere strinxerit ora meus him, said that he was mistaken, for but more particularly in the exer that a liberty to make a door was 'cise of his profession, was called not a satisfaction to them for so the "fying Barber"they might have a licence and yet the door never be made, therefore his desire was to have ostium fieri, a door to be made. Whereupon the third replied they were both mistakeň, for so it might still be in fieri, but his desire was to have ostium factam, a door made. Where-Cedite Romani Tonsores, cedite Graii fore the first replied again that they were not so unmannerly as to de sire a door made, for that was to demand of the king to make them a door, and he therefore desired When it is considered that these they might have leave possé ostium fines are the production of a man fieri, to have it in their power to who professionally had no concern make a door. But the second a-with love, they will be considered as tolerably good! - gain opposing him, and so on, the King grew weary and answered them that he undersood their request, but would not give them satisfaction until they should agree in modo loquendi: Now this story has a fine application-shall we make it? No. Qui cupit ille capit. There is a pleasant conceit in the following lines which entitle them to considerable credit as a compli mentary effusion. - To a Lady who in a poetical epistle had To change thee fair Eliza to a star They make thee only rule by night from far Born to give pleasant days to human kind Tonsorem regió non habet ulla parem. Imberbes Grantam, barkati, accedite Grantam Illa palpit mentes & polit illa genas. 7 From off that delicate fair cheek With anger or with shame it glows By the same. There is no pride so disgusting as that which assumes superiority to a whole respectable profession, and no conduct so illiberal and, ungenerous as that which denounces a whole body of, men and refuses to allow them any credit or character. The clergy have often been obnoxious to the pert and flippant remarks of every little whitling, who is desirous of discovering his wit at the expense of his judgment; but such satirists are admirablyrepaid is their own coin by the piquant ingeThe following epigram by Mr.nuity of Sterne in the following inG. Wakefield, was occasioned by a stanceBarber, who on account of his ra Renounce a claim injurious to thy pow ers Content to shine in this terrestial ball Whilst thou sweet maid has charms to Sterne, so celebrated as the au pidity in conversation, in walking,thor of Tristram Shandy and the sonorous Sentimental Journey, was of Cam-No wind agitated the foliage, as he bridge university, and though no silently entered the grove; caustrict priest, was not of a temper to tiously advancing, like the insidious hear with indifference his whole serpent through the sheltering her fraternity treated contemptuously. [bage. Before the door he paused Being one day in a coffee house, he to listen the silver voice of Nour heard a spruce, powdered young Hali was tuned with peculiar harfellow by the fire side, who was mony, not in singing pastoral ditspeaking of the clergy in a mass as ties, but in discourse with a voice a body of disciplined impostors and rougher and more systematic hypocrites. Sterne got "Ah," cried Sered, to himself: the up while the young man was har blood rushing to his face, " now I ranguing and approached towards shall see what dog is preferred to the fire, patting and coaxing all the Sered." He immediately entered, way a favorite little dog. Coming and the timid maid trembling at his towards the gentleman he took up baleful sight, cast herself into the the dog, still continuing to pat him, arms of her lover for protection. and addresssed the young fellowSir (said he) this dog would be the prettiest little animal in the world had he not one disorder.-What disorder is that, replied the young man-Why sir, one that makes him bark when he sees a gentleman in black. That is a singular disorder, pray how long has he had it. Sir, replied Sterne, looking at him with affected gentleness, ever since he was a puppy ! : EPIGRAM. On a Mr. Smart being married to a Miss Two lovers, pierc'd by Cupid's dart, A priest they call'd, nor call'd in SERED AND TEKAN, "Quit this place,"cried the young man, in an agitated voice," let not my lord stoop to destroy the tranquility of his servants." Sered was nearly choaked with passion, at this familiar remonstrance from one of his own slaves. He paused a moment, then with eyes glowing as the red vapour of the sandy waste, he cried out Nolah, is it you who interfere with the pleasures of your master? Take that refractory slave to my haram.” "She is a free woman," replied Nolah, I dare not offer violence to one of her situation and sex." "Miscreant," cried Sered, stamping and grasping his dagger, “who vain,Stand aside, and let me conduct this art thou that despiseth my will? reptile." [Concluded from page 142.] The following evening, when the sun was departed to the great desert, Sered again took his way along the banks of the Zanderat, musing on the charms of Nour Hall, and meditating designs of possession So saying, he grasped the maiden by the arm, and was dragging her from the hovel, when her lover unable longer to contain, endeavoured with gentle violence to rescue her. The passion of Sered having blinded his caution, he plunged his dagger in the breast of his slave, who fell prone at the feet of his mistress. Sered was for a moment confounded, and having quitted his grasp of Nour Hall, she fled with distracted steps from the cottage... "Shall I lose her thus ?" cried | much anxiety as herself. He came> he, hastening after her, "what sig-but his information was obscure nifies the death of a slave, who dar- the hut was without inhabitants, and ed to impede my will." The flying the blood upon the ground remaid hastened with feet that defied mained. the wind, and perceiving two perNour Hali was inconsolable, she sons at a distance, she fled forward, flattered herself that her lover was sinking exhausted at their feet.yet alive, and dreaded the increasing Sered now halted in pursuit, his warmth of Tekah, whose expressgarments were tinged with the ions exceeded the limits of friendblood of a slave, and self-preserva-ship. tion turned his steps to his palace, where he brooded over his loss, and consoled himself for the outrage with the idea, that all his perceptions would be lost, when he should have past the present scene of existence. For several days she remained imprisoned in the apartments of the women-She was visited alone by Tekah, and his offers were now urged with all the fervor of love, and the softness of a first and genuine passion. But professions, senThe persons to whose succour timents, and all the luxuries his Nour Hali was accidentally obliged, situation allowed him to supply, were Tekah and a merchant, whom made no impression on an heart the beauty of the evening had tempt- already attached, and Tekah saw his ed to wander beyond the precincts offers despised and his love rejected. of the city. Tekah was instantly struck with the graces of the sup-upon his rugged passions. He pliant, and raising her, with a smile, moral turpitude, but the dread of trembled at crime, not from its assured her of protection, and pre-retribution. Here, however, was a vailed upon her to take a tempora female, reduced by a singular event, ry refuge in his palace. totally within his power; she had rejected his offers of lawful union, and the fever of his mind was not to be allayed with disdain. Lenient measures but encreased her opposition, and force he resolved to substitute. Having dismissed his friend, Tekah flew to the chamber, where he found the weeping fair. He sought to sooth the grief which swelled her bosom by the kindest expressions; proposing to send to her residence for intelligence, requiring in the interval her participation in a trifling repast he had ordered of the most delicious viands. Her beauty every moment im pressed itself deeper into his heart. He had hitherto avoided the female sex, lest his attention should be inclined from the accumulation of wealth; but all his resolves now melted away, like the dripping honey from the comb. He hoped, from the account of Nour Hali, that her lover was slain, and he trembled for the return of his messenger with as Education alone had fixed a curb He brooded for several days over this expedient, recoiling from the moment of execution, as he trembled lest the senses of the maid should be impaired by the shock of suspended terror. These considerations changed the medium of his purpose, and substituting a drug, he proposed, when her mind should be absorded in inanity, to reduce her to his will. Several days Sered sought in vain for Nour Hali, examining the slave markets, and prying into every abode, nor was her total seclusion THE EMERALD. less unaccountable than the disap-awe.. pearance of Nolah, whose body had rushed again upon his soulHis scruples and his fears been conveyed away by some secret" What a wretch am I?" muttered he, "shall I destroy all the hopes and tranquility of a bosom so se rene?-Shall I become a monster, and be blasted by the frown of Om nipotence ?-The gardens of para dise I could forego; for paradise possesses no sweet more perfect than this!-But shall I hazard eter nal and inevitable destruction; shall I wake upon me the vengeance of inscrutable and unerring Alla? No, no; it must not be-Nour Hali, thy virtue has conquer--triumph, ed!" agent. Unable to forget the beauty of her person, He spent hours on his terrace, which, he traversed with painful agitation. Its situation overlooked the gardens of Tekah, and he beheld, in the cool of the evening, a female figure, whose air and mien reminded him of his loss. Transfixed to the spot, his eyes alone wandered after her, and his doubts gave place to certainty, when her angelic features were discovered beneath her veil, which the wind agitated at pleasure. "The wretch," cried Sered, "he confines in his haram the woman upon his ears. At this moment a loud shout burst on whom my soul delights. He chamber in disorder, when rising He retired from the shall return her to my arms, or flames gleamed upon his sight, and will hurl ruin upon his head. He cracking fire thundered around him. sent instantly to Tekah, requiring his A slave whom he knew not, rushed presence upon concerns of importowards him-Save yourself," he tance; but all his arguments could cried, "your palace is in flames; not prevail on him to dismiss. Nour follow me" First," cried Tekah, Hali, and it was with difficulty Se-duty demands me elsewhere. In red restrained himself from violence on the spot. " Tekah left the raving Sered, to Hetermine some plan of vengeance himself. More than ever resolved on securing the reluctant maid, before accident should have power to tear her from his possession-he prepared a sumptuous collation, mingling with her sherbet the drug he had procured, and whose effects soon began to shade in torpor the senses of Nour Hali. A slave, the only female servant in his house, conducted her to her chamber, while Tekah hastened to take possession of his ill obtained prize. The first prayer of midnight was passed, when he advanced to the chamber of the slumbering virgin ;-her cheeks were tinged with the vermilion of the rose, and innocence sported on hier features. Tekah paused a moment in silent and trembling yon chamber you will find a valuable casket, preserve it. I depend on your honour." The slave seiz et the casket, and hastening towards the garden, met Sered in his way who was already searching the house in pursuit of Nour Hali, hoping to convey her away in the tumult himself had caused, by firing the palace: of Tekah, The slave, who was no other than Nolah, (whom fate had conducted to the spot the moment the flames burst forth,) no sooner perceived his former master in a situation where revenge could be received unwitnessed, than he plunged his dagger into his bosom, and hurled him down the steps, escaping into the garden. sleeping maid from the flames; but Tekah with difficulty rescued the having conveyed her to a place of safety, he returned to overlook the |