Star.
London, England, 1827-09-03 00:00:00

DI BLIO 111ECA PA It RI AN A.

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iCoorloiled from our Paper of Friday)
To return, hair e►es, to Dr. r_Aaa aadisai
At p. 227 these ft a note on Protestor Martyn'
if tar Bucolic'. and Georgics of V.rg.l, which may tie
of o•e to those schoolmasters who wohold from their
pupils all ttaislatio is of the classics as sedulously es
t e Clinch of Rome withhold from its votaries tlre
perusal tf the Holy S.:riptures. Dr. Parr Writers thus:
•• I leant the Eclogues of Virgil from this very book,
ender my re►erend instructor, Dr. Thackeray, Master
of 11.4ttow School, and, like other boys, I took it up
vi It me tolesson. When a schoolmaster, I recoro-
beaded. this wnik to my scholars, as 1 also dl4 the
Georgics by Martyn; and I not only allotted, but ad-
vised them to being these books to lesson. The notes
Imo Aa►t assisted,, and the kinglisb translation on the
aides could protect no boy from my searching questions.
flesh the Rneolics in als at of the school resembling
, what is.c.elled the remove.

. At,p. 155, there is an edition-of Cicero's Offices, printed at Am-1
' Ma*, 1691, which Dr. Parr seems to haul valued because it
mne Latin views which came from the pen of the ad-
le ' ... Crichton and Which, though not fault as, carry withabem
e !erg sitting maths of his stedition and original genius. Judging
411snikthe specimens of Ik. Pate's Latin versification- which are
asembani is this volerne, we do not anticipate that any el his books
veltbereafter be deemed of greater value for containing copies of
his verses. Nothing ear be more prussic than the Doctor's poetry.
. 'Ale« words of hie old friend Horace describe it well—" NW
'ead pole' canto difert sett:tont, screw merus." Let any man
Mad she verses either pr-axed or subjoined to this catalogue, aid
L*whether they are nut utterly unworthy, not merely of his ea-
• didebaracter, but of any boy in the upper forms of any of our
IBMs whoa.. Take. al.o, the distich which be placed upon a
premetatiori copy at Vat thies's edition of Grey's IN inks :
• * Imam arr., niut.us prastal--lied miners plus eat
" Mises duct, Indio:Mosque "W."
Can anything he wiser puerile, except, indeed, ft be the follow-
as verses from the same hand?—
" Hunt", ego acetifies lubens libellum
• " Qul me non niovet astintatione;
"Verunt eat ormaiwirres mei sedans,
" Asthma' juvenis buuarum arnautis„
" Doctis omnibus et Mods smandi.'
N Jallownisßayna Cba. Trite Gala Sac. 171113.—5. P."
We have stern ereeral specimens of the Doctor's Lido verses,
ill eyualy pour and wreathe& Souse years ago we bad a set of
6trek iambics, written by the Doctor, and addresawl to the Mr.
?genes just mrntioa 1, which possessed a little more merit than
tone huhlecasyUaldett, bet which tinned meet lustily against many
"t the Tnetried canons, which Portion afterwards di.cuvered. They
were written in imitation of the comic poets of Greece, and were
ffiled wilt various puns en his friend's name. which the Dates,
with wise poetic licence, bad changed into Bananas..
Straelsed to the edition of ~• Polemo's Orations," published
h 1697 at Toulouse, is the frallowing note, flick shows how
iormidible a matter speech-making is sometimes even to the
rest practised speakers. The Mr. Smith mentioned in it
*" 31ember for Lincoln in the late Parliament, and whenever
l'e addressed the House spoke with great fluency and apparent
nve. Bit hear the Doctor:—" To Dr. Parr's most sagacious and
bused friend. hobos Smith, whom terrors In his lira, and indeed
‘.•••17 speech in Parliament, quite overcame his wonderful courage,
14- Parr used to apply one of Polemo's sayings recorded in the
I`"''h—• 01.1.1in:ores aliquando 'pecans, quendain astuantem et
a-itaress praentia tuba teems corporis sadore decLarantem cum
6, wetter; faits est, ripen* credits, dish miseria oratoris deciatua.
1
"a:" Ilie same remark has been twice made by Cicero concerning
M"'11--' F.quidem et in vobis animadvertee sole°, et in me ipso
m..leitme esperior,ut elalbescani in principiis dicendi et tots menu.
:111: Linliniueibiast obi!, coat r enthcam."
e(mDe o"mastodrieelliab.ibli. car.
i2t6;n)
ll"ttm, glut/lit, citatMoPrreogi,titn dicut ecodum sit, non solum comma.
...ror AIIIIIIO, lied edam toto corpore perborresco." (Divinat. in
_ ,I•xabarn.) And again in the speech for Cluentiue--" Hie ego, cum
to rrspon,leodunt surreal, ma curs dii immortal's! qua sellicitu
'Mt mann! quo terror.' ! Semper equidern magno commotu loci-
' rs,Jiterr. Quoriescunque dice, totes mibi videer in judiclum
"bres man annelid% solum, std edam alma, atque ofildi."—
ll:ere art many instance-, besides these two mentioned by Dr.
l' n. o. iodivolitah who leave had the greatest difficulty In overt.
1 Want:LW terrors which me natam alky fccl .n add:ming