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Pope, notwithstanding his talents
have been so highly applauded, is fre
quently detected worig the serroum pe
cus of imitators. Every one knows
that the ground work to his beautiful
ode, " The Dying Christian," was af
forded by Vespasian; but he has, more
over, copied almost verbatim the first
part of it from a.vile Pindarick writer,
who flourished in the time of Charles 11.
When on my sick bed I languish,
Full of sorrow,full of anguish,
Feinting, gasping, trembling, crying,
Panting, groining, speechless, dying!
Methinks I hear some gentle spirit say,
Be not fearful, come away!
Here follows the parallel by Pope.
Vital spark of heavenly flame!, } >
Quit, O quit this mortal frame!
Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying,
O! the pain, the bliss of dying !—-
Ihrkt thy whisper-—^Angela say,
'. Sister spirit come away I .
\
jectures relative to what part of the hu.
CTCT7 body it belongs. Anatomists,(for they
think they have the best right to judge)
pretty unanimously agree that we ought
to look in the head for the seat of the
s,oul ; but they are very much divided
as to the part of the head. Some place
it in the cerebrum, some in the pineal
gland, some in the corpus callosum;
others in the cerebellum, and others a
gain with more shew of truth, assign it
to Um meninges. A modern philoso
pher has attempted by a long and la
borious process of reasoning to prove
that it is seated in the toe-nails. A
nother not less self-sufficient, I have
myself seen pointing it out in the
•rebrum.
ODE TO THE SUN.
THOU, whose rejoicing eye of light
Look'd forth at God's inspiring call,
When order lay in boundless night,
And darkness wanton'd over all ;
Whence thy perpetual youth, 0 sun !
Since life, and light, and time begun ?
Unchang'd art thou; when darkness shrouds,
When angry nature weeps around,
Far, far above the ebon clouds,
Thy splendors sweep the blue profound;
Where still unshaken wheel the spheres,
Beyond the reach of panting years.
When first thy ruddy pinions lave
The skies—careering round the day;
The moon sinks down the western wave,
Retreating from thy fiery ray;
The stars are blanch'd ; the ghost ofnight
Flies sullen from the blasting light.
The mountain oaks with age shall fall,
The everlasting hills decay;
But thou shalt hear the morning call,
Till heaven and earth shall pass away,
Thy youth, thy strength shall last, O sun,
Till life, and light, and time are done.
HOEL.
• • ••
TO MY 'OLD FRIEND AND PATRON,
ADAM BUNBRUSHER, a.as. s.t.d.
On hearing that his Alma had com
plimented him with the latter
degree.
No—never shall our souls forget
Hciwa well they could accord together;
Bunbrusher! I will love the,et
In fortune's warm and wintry weather.
Great Bun! I envy thy degrees,
Bestow'd by famous, fostering mother.*
See folly, ignorance on their knees,
While science hugs thee for a brother.
Such laurels well with head agree,
In learning's, virtue's cause so spunky;
Though A. A. S. and S. T. D.
Oft set like wig upon a monkey! 1!
C.
* Alma mater.
siscellanp.
For the Constitutionalist.
HUC ET ILLUC;
OR, LITERARY WANDERINGS.
[No. 5;
Exulting on thy course sublime,
How bright thy yellow tresses glare,
As still they wave, unhurt by time,
High o'er the azure depths of air!
As still thy wings unwearied go,
While earth and ocean laugh below.
The insatiable curiosity of the soul
has given rise to many laughable con-
Original Poetry.
For the Constitutionalist.
Menander, the Grecian comedian,
has a reflection worthy the Saviour of
mankind himself.
" He, oh! Gorgias, is the most vir
tuous man, who, among mortals, best
knows how to endure injuries with
patience."
•# • •
The tyranny of age were insupport
able, did not our passions recede as
that advances. The penalty of those,
who attempt the pleasures of youth,
under its dominion, is hardly ever short
of death.
•• • •
The Christian, not the hero can just
ly be said to possess a great soul; for
the world itself cannot contain it.
•• • •
Obligation sits hard upon us, when
imposed by a scoundrel.
•• • •
One easily forgets obligation, when
he knows your inability to serve him
again.
Absent friends are no longer remem
bered, because self-love must be ever
seeking new objects of gratification.
IV himsical account and merited eu
logium.
England is really the queen of isles—
the metropolis and arsenal of Neptune
—the treasury of Europe—the king
dom of Bacchus—the school of Epi
curus—the academy of Venus—the
country of Mars—the recess of Mi
nerva—the support of Holland—the
scourge of Frances —the purgatory qf
those who are advocates for slavery—
and the paradise of those, who are lov
ers of liberty.
Eugenia was born of respectable
parents ; from them she received les
sons of morality,and examples of virtue.
She was married to a man of good fam
ily and excellent qualifications. A son
was the fruit of their union, and with
which they would have been supreme
ly happy, but for one of those vile
characters who become enamoured of
every-woman they see, and seduce them,
merely to render them contemptible.
The Duke of— was intro
duced to Eugenia ; he obtained free ac
cess to her house ; he was unremitting
ly assiduous in his endeavours to please
her, and to erase from her mind those
wise principles of virtue with which
s|fe had been impressed from her infan
cy. He was too successful; the un
happy Eugenia lost in one moment
those pleasing reflections which twenty
years Os irreproachable conduct had
afforded her. She forfeited her honour
and with it her own esteem, which can
never be replaced.
A business of some importance ob
liged Eugenia's husband to go abroad.
The duke seized the opportunity of
his absence with avidity ; he persuaded
the fair criminal to sacrifice every prin
ciple, and go with him to France.
Much cry and little wool, is the
devil's proverb; but, nevertheless,
often verefied. The Greeks boast of
seven men as models of wisdom and
virtue;' but these same seven wise men
were guilty of many a foolish action.
Each one has left behind him as a me
morial of his wisdom a pithy sentence,
that might have occurred to a fool.
I do not like to hear people continual
ly eying out Quid non damnosa im
minuit dies !
The emotions of grandeur and sub
limity are nearly allied. And hence it
is that one term is frequently put for
another; an increasing series of num
bers, for example, producing an emo
tion similar to that of mounting up
ward, is commonly termed an ascend
ing series ; a series of numbers gradu
ally decreasing, producing an emotion
similar to that of going downward, is
commonly termed a descendieg series.
We talk familiarly of going up to the
capital and going down to the country ;
from a lesser kingdom we talk of going
up to a greater; whence the anabasis
in the Greek language, when one trav
els from Greece to Persia.
(# The friendly correspondent, who
so obligingly furnishes the above, must
pardon for omitting a part of his com
munication.
THE RETURN TO VIRTUE.
A TALE.
Elements of Criticisms.
Count Oxenstiern.
The day of departure was fixed.
Eugenia according to the agreement,
went forward to a small village in
the city of London. There, free to
her own reflections, without the insid
ous interposition of her abominable
seducer, she felt a thousand torturous
pangs ; she reproached herself for the
step she was going to take; a torrent
of tears poured from her eyes. At
that moment she observed a child near
her, which lisped the tender name of
mother. Eugenia then tho't of her son.
" Oh! heavens," she cried, and press
ing the baby to her bosom," have I so
conquered my feelings as to abandon
you. Unhappy infant! I forgot I
was a mother."
Small Profits.
A quaker sold a pcice of goods to
a person, for which he asked two
guineas, and on the gentleman's objec
tion to the price replied, " Indeed
friend we cannot sell it for less, I on
ly get two shilling&Und sixpence by
thee ;" on which the gentleman paid
the money and departed : immediately
one of the partners —of whom there
was four—who had been standing
near and heard the whole, said “ friend
Joel, didu'st thou make a mistake
when thou said two shillings and six
pence was the profit, thee knows we
get ten shillings by the goods." —"
True^' replied Joel ; " but I said to
the man I only get two shillings and
sixpence by thee, which is the truth ;
then there is two shillings and six
pence for thee, and the same for each
of our fremds."
As a lame country schoolmaster
was hobbling to his noisy mansion, he
was met by a certain nobleman, who
wished to know his name, and how he
got his livelihood. “My name," an
swered he, is " R. T. & lam master
of this parish"—" Master of this par
ish !" said the nobleman, " how can
that be ?"—" I am," replied he, "mas
ter of the children of this parish; the
children are masters of the mothers,
the mothers are rulers of the fathers;
and consequently I am the master of
the whole parish."
Sir Harry Wotton defines an Am
bassador to be, " A man sent to tell
lies for the good of his country."
A man was never hated unless he
deserved your love.
She immediately returned to Lon
don, flew to her child, clasped him in
her arms ; tears streamed down her
cheeks ; and with the interruption of
many heart-rending sighs, she exclaim
ed, " Dearest infant, vice would have
effaced from my heart the feelings of
nature."
The duke, surprised to find his prey
had escaped, went to Eugenia's house,
and would have complained of her
proceedings; but the moment he ap
proached her she said," Begone most
infamous of men ; retire from my
presence, and applaud yourself for my
shameful weakness. But you had not
the power of tearing a mother from
her child. I have returned to him ;
never appear before me again. Leave
me to bewail my fatal error. You
have destroyed my repose for ever.
Leave me to mourn for the rest of my
life'"
It is impossible to believe the extra
ordinary fondness which the natives
of Holland and France had for flowers ;
and though the rage is now extinct, it
cannot be unentertaining to shew the
extent to which their partiality for
flowers led them.
In 1638, at Harlem, a flower which
had the fine name of semper augus
tus, was sold for four thousand six
hundred florins, a beautiful new car
iage, and two horses with harness.
Another person gave thirteen thou
sand florins for another flower of the
same kind.
For a tulip root, two hundred
square perches of land were given.
Oue who possesed a yearly rent of
sixty thousand florins, was reduced to
beggary, in the short space of four
months, by purchasing flowers.
This rage of flowers was carried to
such an extent,that in three years traffic
of them yielded in one city in Holland
ten millions sterling ! ! ! The States
then issued a proclamation to suppress
such destructive and dishonest com
merce.
A certain Secretary of State being
asked by an intimate friend, why he
did not promote merit ; aptly replied,
" because merit did not promote me."
The prices given to flowers in France
were nearly as extravagant, but the
rage soon gave way to some other
fashion, without the interposition of
government.
An Irishman complained of his a
pothecary, that he kept so stuffing
him with drugs, that he was sick for
a fortnight after he was quite well.
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