Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-10-15
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uroH The piniors OF tue wind 20
And Cowper ia like manner writes,
" AwaN went Ciipih neck ct naugit,
AwAy went hat and wig"
Which last line does, we confess, convey To
our mInd more lively idea Of the iapldity oil
motion, than any single image in Maleppa.
Ii IL Impossible, howeytr, To admire sufiici-
ctently Tie skill with which Lord byron has
contrasted the general features of Mazeppa's
roe Win those OF John Giipin's. Johu's steed
saliops along the kiug's highway, aud niazep-
pas through the desert. Vet, II danger or
Terror he one source of the sublime, we hum
Diy holc that there Is a sublinity in the situa-
non OF the London cit, far beyond that OF the
Polish gentleman. For, in the first place, Ma
zeppa being securely bound 10 his horse, need
entertain no approximations OF a stNefe tail,
whereas Johh'S adaesiOH 10 his nag seems 10
tue reader almost in tue liyht OF "a continued
miracle, little accustomed A. lie must have
heeu Ia that sort OF eNcIcise. Secondly
"ouiu moi ANY pcrsOn wh1ieyeT prefer gal,op.
Pun; aiohS turf. sand. or dust ioa cau2eway
,tadh. iioi. the nit tropoIs of great ciLpires
S"t"ing surprises ~ much in the poem of
Johu Hik'lh, aN that the Call nder's huIse does
not come dOs IL which would almost tor &c ms TO
suspect ihaf john WAS II better horseman
Than The world in senei al give him CT edit
Tor. Indeed, though net much of IA meta.
PhSS'r'ah ourselves. having read little on that
SUBJECT, save some OF the works ot the ceie-
DRAFTED h"vey Napier, Esq. we think that we
may venture 10 assert ihata cousde ra lille por-
tioh OF The delight with which we pernse or
rather pursue John GIpin. a i>eS from our adj
narration OF his skill in hon semanship. This
All miIatinn OF -. rider is also hI,ut,d viii,
dffectS~n Tor the man.
Wr'ove him for the dangers he is passing
Ahu he loves us because we pity them"
Ana inns leads us. in the third place TO re.
inarh thai those dangers are OF the most iormi-
uapic KIND. We may safely assert thai before
ne reached Edmonton, lie had brushed bv al
.east ZoO carriages, coming Il going, of all snrts
,,o" INC oroad-wheeied Wagon 10 the sliandrS-
van. let u does not appear that lie drove ANY
w mem INTO pieces. or in any one instance trans
nAed ms friends galloway on the pole of :, car
rage coming up toio He seems to us 10 be q
nah under lie protection of Providence And
,"en' what maJ' site caimmeSS and cuinposure
are h>! why, Mr.. Editor, not two ,neu in
I'T"' nii'oh> .that Is To say,no other man bur
y, u,iPh, in The whole then population of
E"s'"Ho' would have exhibited such he roism
mazeppa, too. no doubt had his Ji entities m
S"ntehd Without they were not Of So formi.
aahie IA description. His feelings mas, have
pceu very uncomfortable aS he. scared the
"iu WOOD, studded y iil old stur,Iy irees =,
ana lie probably laid his account win many :,
nanS on me Shins but Lord Byron OUGHT not
10 I"Ne toiu us that the trees &" we've few and
,hr ovtwet" Tor. IN that case, the forest must
nave Dten very pretty riding.
lie r"stlcd through the leaves like wind
Le' ,"ps andres, aud wolves behind
wouiu almost seem from these lines as IL
mdZePpa were underSuci alarm ;,s Ia iuian in,.
tue shrubs aud trees 10 he cIiaSiiI. him AS wrI
aS me wolves. This a touch uf poetry he
Sond any thing to he found in John GilpiG. His
In- dogs did bark, tile children scr..u,aa
Up Hew the windows alp
HE extreme fully oi this suddenly throviu~
open Their windows Gan ugly lricn NV yhici,
MARY an honest man has come 10 a,, ,,u,;,nal,,
-enu - almost redeemed BIZ the deem interest
WHICH these worthy but thouyhlless ueoul,
take ~ lhe fortunes Of the flying Cuckney:
Ana even me cried out-well done
AS iond US lie could bawt."
never read This agohsing poem (for the
interest is so Intensely kept up as TO he in-
az kAf II.
the fortunate deiuson of th., y,rious inn
pikemen by which John GIlpin was saved lie
necessity ot taking many dangerous leaps.
Que or other at which would in ali h,Inar
proDaDiIty, have proved fatal
49,, lie carries wei2lt-he rides a race
MS exclamation, bOrue before him and inst
oei"Ie hln'' on the wings OF the wind. .ives
one ,rniy awful idea of velocity. aud wen
mi-h' Cowper exclain,
Twas wonder ful To view
How III trice the tuuIpkenen
Their gates WIDE open fiew'"
TO sooner did the public mind take IN the
. rl lie rlies race !" than by "a wonder
lu' Process OF thought, IL discovers the amount
" lis for ! Thousand pound"
an islinensc sum at that time when borsera
Gag hah not nearly reached its merid an
spiendonr, aud when only few Numbers. if
any, or me sporting Magazine had been PAD
iiShFu. In all his COwper has InanifestI, The
a vantage over Bryon. Compared witE the
nue. passa Is now quoted from Gilrin, how
UntlFed, untanied. and worse than wild
All hirious as Il iavoured child
naked OF IFS wish-Or iercer still
woman riqued, who has her will
mere Maz@ppds galiantry altogether for
sdkes nihi' nor can we imagine more iIeIeuaut
Go"lpimeht 10 The mistress whom he was then
leaving, than to compare her. or indeed apy of
her seN TO a wild Tartar horse, on whom he
was then tied " in natures nakedness''
II docs moi appear that Gilpin lost his sen
ses or his presence of mind duriu, auv
on The other hand, was completely done nm
aud absolutely tainted. "
Can die no than then died
oer tortured BY that CHASTITY ride
t ,, . OF mind is quality indispensable
-ZePpa, but we admired Gilpin.
MaZeppa complains frequently of hunrar
u"tihS nus Tide-hHt no Snch weakness de-
grades GIlpin. who seems almost raised above
ill Tile Ordinary wants of nature
Stop stopI John Gilpn-here's the house
They all at once did cry
ne dinner waits aud tired
said GiPin--sOam II"
Not single word OF regret does he utter for
the want of that dinner which has lon,, walled
TOR hun but which, from the inpatient appe-
ties of Mrs. Gilpn aud the children he 90 II
knows is then trembling o. thu brink of de-
tfuctIon. One solitary exclamation is all ti,,t
proceeds from his ips as he hurries by belo,y
the balcony,
an Ordinary writer would have filed his
mouth win many needless words. Lord By
ron has evidently very closely copied ihis sub
Iime passage la an early part OF Mazeppd ca
ToCr.
:" Wnihing half my form about
How'd back ny curSs; bat 'inidst the tread
Ihe thunder OF my c0urSeT's speed.
PerchHnce they dtd not hear vIr seed
II may he queNti med. however il this, fine
as IL IS. does not want the concise energy of
the original.
Tie dangers which GiIpin aud Mazsppa en-
counter, arise not only from land bat wafer
iIus quDth the Pole
. Mrthougm the dash OF waves was nigh
The wl'd horse SINUS tie wilder stream"