Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-09-06

iur the priest WHO nan ftlusrh W give
erireme gtnction. The priest retnrned
Tor answer. that he was unweli. an's
roul,, not attend him; after several
messengers had been despatched. with
ont success. TO ininrm he must come, .
guard Of soldiers was sent. who
brought him up, and be proved TO DC
the very person whom the soldier hah
cut across the arm; his accumpi"es
have been traced out, and they are al
now safely lodged in prison.
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To the editor of the Albany Gazette and Daily
Advertiser.
SIR,
I have often thought exact and IL
teral TRANSACTIONS of the Greek Clas-
sticks. both in prose and poetry, would
be much preferable to either free
demonstrations Of the one or poetiraI
ltranslations of the Other. The Ian
l,uage of the anrients was the Ian
l,,uage of nalure. As ideas were i'm
|imessrtl upon their free and unaduiter-
It.tvd minds, according 20 tie genuine
laws Whi,h Gnh has established fnt
1.-The correspondence o. mind AMI mat
Iter: as they were pesscsseG oi the
Inappiest langaases IL which the
thoughts VI niau were ever uttered.
IS tile modern artificial trapnings, 4
unnatural Alterations OF style we're
nor vi Introduced, they expressed
Miai n.ture inspirel. in the most ma
Itural mlnrr. We know how much
Ithe rii'4t OF sentiment depends upon
the manner in which it is expressed.
he line OF beauty in q sentence.
Says Sttra', is like that Of a statute ;
lie depends upon the insensible more
lur less, when we feel in the effect
though we cannot ascertain in DIES.
|rripiion. This precise line Of beaut,
the AM icn's hit; and shall WE not thu
"lmore riicttually preserve it, the more
! faithfully we transerihe them !? par
: tiruiaris IN the ease OF the Greek au
thors, whose language rms into on
uwn more readily perhaps than an.
lo.her We have indeed had murl
= excellent English poetry, prnfessin!
= 10 he translation from the Greek hlI
!" il were much better termed inliia
ton. namr, which yet it can scarce
" ny slain. Cowper was Ivy no mean
. .lsrnsihle To The beauties If Pope
= Hiatt and Odyssey, but he felt VIVA
: .nany lad felt before him. that the
were not the beauties of Homer. III
:, a.. dinghy undertook q trAnslatio
:" d more literal kind ; which shout
~; .,saDt fbn movements aud wPf
~ ~. dress 81 English poetry. Benz
= therefore, obliged eodrparl ii om % u
:" PRECISE Iinr III wautt or his author
~ Mas of caur,e again obliged
I" adopt another of Ills own, the cons
I" ,lucnce Of which could he notlIil
- less then an exhibition o; the intrrio
!" ~ Of lis genius to that OF Home
His wO,h is almost entiis.ly dest;iu
Il iutercs9. Ii is neither anrient n,
or. modern. 1T is neither poetry NJ
~, prose, and we are the more disgust,
~ with il, iiiasmurl rs We could
pleased wiIh poetry. though il We
ID not translation, or with prusc wsr
i, W had not been told to look for 30
~ try.
,c lord BolingbrOlse knew little OF Il
n. Language Of 'ln Greeks. hut becan
~ laeguaiuird with their authors
h., ,,mans oil Latin and he declares d.
n. ne was more impressed With the
4. unaffected simplicity aud grnui
IN. .ublnlily by exact and literal transi
~, ions, than ny any variations for 1
III, ,aho of poiisile'i periods or nlusi,
~ Iauubcrs. lnGep.i nothing is admit
aid l!ntouir minds. x expressed as our %,
~ without a.snniia-. new colour iue
ed re like iuNs ni iight their roinl,iu
,u Itinn ami direction, and Of conr
he tirlr effect, are entirtiy changed
M. the medium through which they pa
90. i'.hrrtt0re it should suit your ide
:. Ito publish TRANSACTIONS suei, AS The {
ill., lowing, Of sane OF tie minor Gre
or. octs. stall be happy 10 furnl
lie Them !; and am the mere inclined
AXE think they viii he acceptable, - 81
III, lac ones were some time since III
he, .shcd IN "a Boston paper, and ~
ali we'll received.
,sh. slgDENS
ea,i| Frcm the T'lyllia Of Mos nus,
let The Fatgitire Cupid.
lew VEINS Proclaimed aloud Has !
res one seen Cupid, N, son Cupid, W
hey lnPinm neat tie nnnlitk WAYS /? Z