virginis suavium.' ” FARTHER, the light-footed steed of | Optabilius nobis ac dulcius videtur, quam the pen has not found permission to proceed on the plain of prolixity.”—Ibid. "THE Jonas of day descends into the belly of the whale of the west."-Ibid. "LA mañana desterrava Con azotas de luz, la noche esaura." DAVID. "ABSALOM.-Hasta los hombros pende su cabello Mas que el oro de Arabia roxo, y bello." "CADA año qual renuevo lo cortava A damas se vendia para ornato." Poeseos Asiat. Com. "JUVENIS, qui post mortem ob liberalitatem suam vivit, Sicut pratum post imbris effusionem virescit." In libro HAMASA. Poes., &c. "VIDI in hortulo violam, Cujus folia rore splendebant; Similis erat flos ille (puellæ) cæruleos habenti oculos Quorum cilia lacrymas stillant." EBU RUMI. Poeseos, &c. DAVID. “ILLIDE ignem illum nobis liquidum, "THIS Conversation resembles the fallacious appearance of water in a desart, which ends in bitter disappointment to the stag MEDICINAM (vinum) quæ somni origo sit, parched with thirst."-SACONTALA. affer."-Ibid. of the sun, being tinged with Hinna, seemed I think a good story may be made of branches of transparent red coral."—Intro- | duction to the Bahar-Danush, or Garden of Knowledge, by EINAIUT OOLLAH. Translated by SCOTT. Robin Hood-my old favourite. It must have forest scenery, forest manners, and outlaw morality. Should he be the principal character, or like the Arthur of Spenser—a kind of tutelary hero? Some tale of feudal tyranny may be grafted on; perhaps made the principal action. A neif with an evil lord. The age of Robin Hood is in every point favourable. The royal authority was lax enough to allow any undue power to a distant lord. The crusading spirit abroad, some little heresy also in the world; chivalry in perfection; and practical equality in Sherwood. Perhaps the old system of wardship would be the best hinge. For the first time I wish for my law books. But with all this, what becomes of the pastoral? Every thing, however, that is good in the pastoral may still be retained. Scenes of natural beauty, and descriptions of simple life. The popular belief of fairies, goblins, witches, and ghosts, and the Catholic saintsystem render any machinery needless. It is difficult to avoid a moral anachronism. We can go back to old scenery and old manners, but not to old associations. In this subject I shall not much feel this defect. There is no difficulty in thinking like Robin Hood; and persecuted affection must feel pretty much the same in all ages. In this I can introduce the fine incident of my schoolboy tale. After long absence a young man approaches his native castle, and finds it in ruins. It is evening; and by the moonlight he sees a woman sitting on a grave. His beaver is down. She runs to him, and calls him father; for it is his sister, watching her father's grave, a maniac. Extracts. "ADMIR'D and lost, just welcom'd and deplor'd, Cam'st thou, fair nymph, to wake delight and grief; Like Lapland summers, with each beauty | In the sun's palace-porch; where, when stor'd, Transient like them, and exquisitely brief?" Mrs. West's elegy on a young lady who died soon after her marriage. "WHOEVER casts up his eyes loseth the idea of Paradise." In the inscription over the portal of the famous mausoleum at Com. Chardin. "O QUAM Verenda micat in oculis lenitas! Minantur et rident simul." unyoked [wave. "AND the long moon-beam on the hard wet sand Lay like a jasper column half uprear'd." Ibid. "NOR is there aught above like Jove himself, [fixt, Nor weighs against his purpose, when once Chinese ode, in Sir W. Jones's "Poescos Aught but, with supplicating knee, the Asiatica Commentarii." The Silkworm. "MILLE legunt releguntq; vias, atq; orbibus Agglomerant, cæco donec se carcere claudant "TOUT cet appareil de dehors, Le train, les honneurs, les thresors, Luy sont ce qui est a l'arbre un verdoyant feuillage: Elle en connoist le prix et sçait bien s'en servir; Mais sans se plaindre au Ciel, sans ployer sous l'orage Elle les quitte au vent, qui les luy vient ravir." LE MOYNE. La Femme Forte. “L'OR n'est que la bile éclaircie "CE brave Mede est mort. Abradates Et maintenant encore son Ombre entre les morts De ceux qu'il a vaincu suit les Ombres er rantes Sonnet. Panthea. LE MOYNE. La Gallerie. "Du sommet d'un rocher précipitant ses flots, Une cascade au loin fait mugir les échos, Tombe, écume et bouillonne, et son eau tourmentée Semble se disperser en poussière argentée." LE SUIRE. The silver dust of the waters. "SA ceinture éblouit par le jeu varié Du feu des diamans avec l'or marié."—Ibid. wwwwww m "LE bon sens s'eclost de ses levres de rose Comme sort un bon fruit d'une agreable fleur."-LE MOYNE. La Femme Forte. "THUNDER it grones and grumbles It rouls and roars, and round-round-round it rumbles." SYLVESTER'S Du Bartas. Freedom. I HAVE seldom met with a nobler burst in any poem than in "The Bruce." After describing the oppressive government of "Jhone the Balleoll, "A! fredome is a nobill thing! "RESTABAT cura sepulchri; Per drouery, is not in a view of marriage. Quo foderem ferrum deerat : miserabile Te term is old French. corpus Frondibus obtexi, puerum nec ab ubere vulsi, Sicut erat foliis tegitur, funusq; paratur Heu nimis incertum et primis violabile ventis."-BUSSIERES. A Gallery. "UNE porte d'airain s'ouvre alors en deux parts. Le lieu vaste reçoit les avides regards. Vers le bout éloigné, que l'œil à peine acheve, La voûte semble basse, et le pavé s'éleve. Le lambris qui les suit vers un but limité Diminuë à l'égal d'un et d'autre costé." CLOVIS. "Yo vi con apariencia manifiesta que no fue el respuesta por él mismo, mas por algun espiritu compuesta: como si alguna furia del abismo al sabio las entrañas le royera, ó como que le toma parasismo con los mismos efectos y tal era la presencia del viejo quando vino a darme la respuesta verdadera. Andaba con furioso desatino torciendose las manos arrugadas, los ojos bueltos de un color sanguino: las barbas, antes largas y peynadas, llevaba vedijosas y rebueltas, como de fieras sierpes enroscadas : las rocas, que con mil nudosas bueltas la cabeza prudente le ceñian, por este y aquel hombro lleva sueltas: las horrendas palabras parecian salir por una trompa resonante, y que los yertos labios no movian." L. LEONARDO. "OLD bed-rid age laments Its many winters, or does wish 'em more, To have more strength to fight, or less to die." SOUTHERNE's Persian Prince. |