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POETRY.
For the Constitutionalist.
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MR. BEALS,
Hoel requests an early inser
tion for the follouring pieces, if found
'worthy; in that case, he will supply
I you, from his poetical knapsack, with
more of the like complection.
GONE had each charm, that sweetly ^on,
When hope was young, when judgment
stray'd;
For youth was fled, and love was done,
And fancy sunk, and life decay'd.
No eye to kindle kind and dear,
No heart to mingle griefs with me,
My soul had spurn'd her dwelling here ;
Yet awful was eternity.
What could Ido ?—all hope had died ;
Alas! no mediate course was given;
1 was not fit on earth t' abide,
# And, oh! I dar'd not think of heaven.
Oh! God, that hour—that dreadfid hour,
That saw my brain in madness whirl'd !
Were not thy mercies like thy power,
This soul had hurried from the world.
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I There surely is a boon from high,
That can, when life's enchantments fall,
Shower light upon the mental eye,
And pay us for the loss of all.
The following simple and affecting
lines, of which a translation is at
tempted, were written, it is said, by
Tasso while under cruel and arbitra
ry confinement, in the hospital of St.
I Anne.. —
Tu che ne vai in Pindo.
Ivi pende mia cetra ad un cipresso,
Salutala in mio nome, e dille poi
Ch'io son dagl' anni e da fortuna oppresso.
I TRANSLATION.
To my sad harp, (to Pindus when you go,)
Where, on a cypress, mournful it appears,
L Say, in my name, —“ lam the sport of wo,
■ And sink unaided'neath the stream of years."
Epigram, by Bishop Owen.
Omnia me dum junior essem,scire putabam ;
Quo scio plus, hoc me nuncscio scire minus.
Translation.
t What time my vernal season smil'd,
1 thought myself the aptest child
In wisdom's sacred school;
I But now, the more her truths I gain,
IThe more I own with selfdisdain
Myself almost a fool.
b" Why am I destin'd to such swift decay ?"
Said Beauty sighing to the powers above ;
" Nothing is fair, that fades not quick away,"
With smiling lips, replied supernal Jove.
Spring, Flowers, and Dew, and Love, and
sprightly Youth'
All caught these accents, nor repress'd their
fears,
For as they learht the melancholy truth,
They parted slowly from the throne in tears.
1 LINES
On leasing a seat of Learning.
Three years have elaps'd !—can my pilgrim
age seem
The bioota of a moment,the spell of a dream?
Well—peace to these haunts, for I quit with
I atear,
Tho' few are the objects to Waken it here, -
Where the wealth of the bosom fast sinks to
decay, *
Where I've murmur'd so much of existence
away.
, Oh! if from oppression this soul had been
Oh! why should affection's control
Be seen in the spell of a sigh ?
Say, why should the health of the soul
E'er rest on the glance of an eye ?
Sure, the kindness of nature hath given
This all-conquering witchery birth,
That ere the soul fixes in heaven,
It may taste of a heaven on earth. •
From the German of Lessing.
Anacreon Moore well illustrates the
meaning of Horace's " sesquipedalia
verba," or wards a foot and an half
long, by introducing, in one of his ir
regular poems, a sweet little Greek
word, which, he informs us in a note,
js to be found in the Lysistrata of
Aristophanes. Ridiculing the lengthy
Indian names of some of the rivers,
over which he had occasion to pass,
while in this country, he says,
He who can meet a full, direct, and
" barbed sneer, without feeling dis
composed, must be one of these three
—saint, hero, or fiend. ,
The great Doctor Johnson was
sometimes called the " literary anvil,"
because (says his biographer) the scin
tillations of his genius flashed every
time he was struck, without his receiv
ing any injury. This was uot the
case; every one recollects the reluct
ance he manifested against entering into
a colloquial contest with Burke, more
particularly, the event of his dispute
with Madam Knowles, the Quaker
Lady.
Like the verbum Grxcum.
Spermagoraiolekrtholakanopolides.
I will now offer an Indian word for
Sir John Carr to comment upon, should
he ever visit us. It is found in a small
work purporting to be “ Memoirs
of Charles Dennis Rusoe D'Eres,"
sometime since published in Exeter,
where the author, at that time, resided.
Risum teneatis ; it is the name of an
Indian nation, and is neither more nor
less than
Scanyawtauragahrooote.
All men are not capable of discover
ing and rightly appreciating an ingeni
ous idea; but there are few souls,
upon whom weighty sentiment is lost ;
hence orators are never more success
ful, than when they unite gravity and
warmth, an union, which in Grecian
language, is called pathos, in French,
I'onction.
There are moral, as well as physical
epicures; paradoxical as it may seem,
the temperate man is the only real
one of the first ; the christian man,
of the latter denomination.
" I treat my goddess ill,
My muse (I mean) to make her speak'em;
I “ Those arc no proper judges of his
conduct (says Dr. Johnson in his life
of Richard Savage) who have slum
bered away their time on the down of
affluence; nor will any wise man pre
sume to say, 'Had I been in Savage's
condition, I should have lived or writ-,
ten better than Savage."
Savage thus adverts to his misfor
tunes;
, " No mother, care
Shielded thy infant innocence with pray'r;
No father's guardian hand my youth main
tain'd,
Call'd forth my virtues, or from vice re
strain'd,
IT is worthy of remark, that Horace
and Virgil never make any mention, in
their writings, of the great Roman or
ator, although a contemporary and the
wonder of the age in which he lived,
and probably of all future ages. Vir
gil says, ' Orabunt (alii) melius causas,'
&c. plainly giving the palm of eloquence
to the Grecian orators, in preference
to the Roman Consul; but the mur
derer of Tully was then upon the
throne, and Virgil was a courtier.
May they sometimes recal that communion
of soul,;
Which heighten'd enjoyment, and sweeten'd
control,
Ere sickness deprest me, ere conquered by
spleen,
For long in my heart shall their mem'ries
be green.
HUC ET ILLUC;
OR, LITERARY WANDERINGS,
. No. 1.
For The Constitutionalist.
gXfflHanp.
We have seen many experiments of
writing English in Hexameter verses.
The following though accidental, per
haps equals any of them. It is in
the third chapter of Collossians, and
nineteenth verse.
" Husbands | love your j wives,
and I be not | bitter a- | gainst them."
Repertory.
Some of this old proverb is not very
applicable to this country—
" If you would live well fora week
kill a hog; if you would live well fora
month, marry ; if yould live well for
life, turn priest."
Death and the sun are not to be look-.
eclat steadily.
Algiers is an immense pile of brick
and lime, cemented in a mass on the
declivity of a hill, resembling a marble
quarry, with excavated cells. This
figure you will more easily under
stand when I tell you that the roofs
or tops of the houses are flat, and
connected with each other in such a
manner that a man might walk from
wall to wall without touching feet
to the ground in almost any direction
in the city. The streets, or rather cov
ert ways are in general not more than
six feet broad ; the broadest will ad
mit with much dfficulty, a loaded camel
in the centre, and a footman on each
side. They are almost uniformly cov
ered with projected stories of the hous
es, forming in some places arches in
others planes, and hiding the sun at
mid-day. There is not a yard in the
whole city, every convenience is placed
within the wall of the houses, even the
the common vaults and reservoirs of
water —and they have no light but
what is received at an aperture in the
centre of the house, generally a square
extending from the top to the ground in
every house, from thirty to 8 or 10 feet
in proportion to the dimensions of the
house. On each side of this area,
from two four stories are galleries and
rooms for every purpose.
Gen. Eaton.
Bonaparte, while in Egypt, is said
'to have hazarded the following ingen.
ious rodomontade;
" From the heights of these pyra.
mids, forty ages are contemplating our
actions."
Never dispute with a sectary, make
no words with him, who is a stickler
from passion, rather than from convic
tion of the truth of his cause. Their can.
dor is like the horizon, always in plain
view; but, like that circle, always
retreating, as the traveller advances.
Solon, the Grecian lawgiver, and
one of the wisest of his age, was wont
to say ; " By rewards and punishments,
states are kept up."
The laws of Rome would not per.
mit forcible entrance into a citizen's
house, not even in case of a criminal
offence, in order to bring the offender
to justice.
Nemo malus felix, says Juvenal.—
No bad man was ever yet happy, is
the voice of reason and experience.
An ancient perquisite, belonging to
the queen consort of England, was
part of any whale taken on the sea
coasts. The whale was a royal fish,
and, when caught, its head was given
to the king, but its tail to the queen.—
" de balena zero sufficit, si sex habeat
corpus, regina caudam. The reason
for this curious diversion was, as as
signed by ancient records, to furnish
the queen's wardrobe with whalebone.
But every one knows that the whale
bone lies entirely in the head of that
fish.
Le Pere Arius says —when the cel
ebrated Bourdaloue preached at Rou
en, the tradesmen forsook their shops,
lawyers their clients, physicians their
sick § but when I preached there the
next year, I set all to rights every
man minded his own business.
Chi offende non pardona mai, —the
offender never forgives, is a maxiin a
mong the Italians, and their practice
has almost made it true; nevertheless,
we do not hate those whom we have
unjustly injured, as has been falsely
advanced; it is ourselves we hate, our
self-love blinding our eyes, and per
suading us it is another person.
Description of Algiers.
BLANKS
Os various kinds kept constantly for
Sale, at the Exeter Book-Store.
Oct. 15,
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to or who
have demands against the Estate
of Amos Knowles, late of Hampton,
Husbandman, deceased, are desired to
call and settle the same with the sub
scriber, Executor of the last Will and
Testament of said deceased.
JONATHAN GARLAND.
Hamptori, Oct. 9, 1810.
NOTICE.
To the honorable the Justices of the
Superior Court of Judicature, to
be holden at Exeter, within and
for the county of Rockingham, and
State of New-Hampshire, on the
third Tuesday of September, Anno
Domini, , 1810,
Leonard white ofHaverhill,
in the county of Essex, and Com
monwealth of Massachusetts, Esq.
Guardian unto Mary Atwood, Eliza
Atwood, Harriot Atwood, John Mul
liken Atwood, Sarah Atwood, Car
shire Atwood, Moses Atwood, Charles
Atwood and Emily Atwood, all chil
dren of Moses Atwood, late of said
Haverhill, and Minors under the age
of twenty-one years—respectfully re
presents, That said Minors are seized
in fee of one half of a Dwelling-House,
and about seven acres of Land, situate
in Kingston, in said county of Rock
ingham. That said house is decaying,
and that it would be greatly for the
interest of said minors, that said House
and Land should be sold and the pro
ceeds put on interest for them. Where
fore he prays that he may be authoriz
ed to sell and convey the House and
Land aforesaid, by giving bonds and
complying with the requisites of the
law in that behalf.
Superior Court—September Term,
Ordered by the court that the pe
titioner notify ail persons concerned,
to appear before the Justices of the
the Superior Court of Judicature, to
be holden at Portsmouth, within' and
for the county of Rockingham, bn the
first Tuesday of February next, to
shew cause if any they have, why the
prayer of said petition should not be
granted, by causing said petition and
order of Court thereon, to be publish
ed three weeks successively in the
Constitutionalist, the last 'publication
whereof to be six weeks before said
term.
ROCKINGHAM, ss.
To the honourable the Justices of the
Superior Court of Judicature, now
holden at Exeter, within and for
the County of Rockingham,
Respectfully shews Ed
mund Pearson of Exeter, Esq.
Guardian of Mary Gilman, of said Ex
eter, widow, who is adjudged and de
termined to be non compos mentis.
That the debts and demands due from
his said ward, and expences incurred
for her support, amount to the sum of
two hundred dollars. For the pay
ment and discharge of which it is ne
cessary Real Estate should be sold.
That she is seized and possessed of a
bont twenty four acres of land situate
in Exeter aforesaid, bounded northerly
by the Rev. Mr. Rowland's land, west
erly southerly and easterly by land of
Abner Dolloff and Noah Barker and
by the Little River. That it would
conduce to the interest of his said ward,
as well as necessary for her support
that the whole of said land should be
sold. He your petitioner therefore
prays your Honors to grant him li
cence to sell the whole of said premises
or such part thereof as you may think
proper and most for her benefit.
EDMUND PEARSON.
Sept. 21, 1810.
ROCKINGHAM, ss.
Superior Court, September term,
- : 1810.
Ordered by the court that the pe
titioner notify all persons concerned
to appear before the Justices of the
Superior Court of Judicature, to be
holden at Portsmouth, within and for
the county of Rockingham, on the first
Tuesday of February next, to shew
cause if any they have, why the prayer
of said petition should not be granted,
by causing said petition and order of
Court thereon to be published three
weeks successively in the Constitution
alist, the last publication whereof to be
six weeks before said term.
NATH'I ADAMS, Clerk.
Attest. —Copy examined by
NATH'I ADAMS, Clerk.
ROCKINGHAM, ss.
Attest, NATH'I ADAMS, Clerk,
LEONARD WHITE, Guardian.
NOTICE.
1810.
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