Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1818-01-13

United thoughts and council, equal hope
| And hazard in the glorious enterprize,'
assist her spirit and direct her views
| The children of the revolution she describes as
home bred children of despotlsm, who like the
yelling monsters Of Milton's Sin, turned against
| their mother and
How'd, and gnaw'd her bowels, their repast'
| Every thing alike submitted to revolutionary
rage. Even the splendid clocks of the royal palaces
That danced away with down upon their feet .
submitted to common fate and while the time
pieces Of Versailles sold for old brass. tlavius
the hair dresser, consulted his sun dial and asked
Z prithee citizen, what shadow Of day i it,
It is be regretted that the author Of this work
did not keep in view the following sentence,-that
-'' modesty is the chiefest virtue,
And does most dignity tie wea:er,"
for then,
" More worthy interest she had done the state
but,
" Pleased with rattle, tickIed with straw
"1he very head and front Ut her offence is this :"
Nu n'aura de l'esprit
Hors naus et nas amis'
The author had not long been absent from her own
cline, when she excailns,
| 9 Give Inc again my hollow tree,
My crust of bread aud liberty
She speaks Of persons, whom she occasionally saw,
that looked
| g Like their grandsires cut in aiabaster",--
and observes that in France it is not the sole duty
aud object of hedren's last, best gin, TO
| "Suckle fools, aud chronicle small beer"
| but
| " To love e'en their husbands"
She talks of beauties which she never saw,
A L,.. .tt
Finds,
e Not her country, we must own,
But only London out OF town"
| She sends "a billet-doux to Baron, which was
composed by her ualef, as that was <6rauch OF
be. education which was quite neglected. aud
Though sulied aud dlshonoured still divine =
She describes
!" The pompons palaces, the boast Of France;
the dwellings,
:. Where neuial kings ran cow'iiognp and down."
the ladies 100. charms,
. Which, sleeping awake. sent forth peculiar
graccs"
and Borapare
Drcs ed ip.a little brill authority,
Playing his tricks before high heaven"
| WHO passed his hour upon the stage
| And now j. heard no more
| Thus We have written
. vi quips and cranks, and wreathed smiles
in all the nonotony OF recitation, from
\ A book, IN which mcn cad strange Mings; -
aud which,
Like twice told tale
Vcxes the dull ear VI d.owsy hcager'
And now,
- The last. not least"
we come to SIR Charles, Of whom we shall only ob
serve ihat
Iie cl3ttters more and better than the birds'
50 uusii of Lady Morgan, who now
Lives, aud moves, aud has her being"
A hundrcd nther splendid poetical' lines might
nave been extracted but il is conceived that suf-
icent has ebeen quoted TO shew the authors extra
ordinary taste for poetical efusous and that she
must have had them treasured ia her uemoty, as
She observes. or longer space Of tlue than from
November t1 March, would have been requisite
10 make the selection.
The work is large and nterspersed with varie-
" Of anecdotes but from the manner IN which they
are related il seems as if the book was not intend
ed for her own sex to peruse. and must therefore.
be recommended TO those only, who have an IDLE
curiosity OF learning tie character OF the author
MON. A. i 4 CRlIIQUE.
January, 1919