Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-06-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

bours, and yot cannot but think thot the twenty
sr 9l me line, some oil one hundred and forty guns
tshuered II more poctical' by ,ay i'm the sun and
by night perhaps still MORE for the Turks illun,;
nate their vessels of war in Il manner the mos,
picturesque, aud yet all this is artificial Az for the
~ ,"Inei stood upon the Symplcendes-I stood by
l.e broken altar still exposed to the winds upon one
oi thcm- tell all the q poetry of the situa,;on as
repeated the first lines of hfedea bur would NOT
,aat " poetry have been heightened by the 4rgo
IL was so even by the appearances of any mcrcSon,
vessel arriving from Odessa But Mr. Bowlcs saws
why bring your ship off the stocks ?" for no req
SON mat know, except that ships are built To be
LWnchea' Inc wafer, nc. undoubtedly HEIGHT
FSs the poetcal associations, but it docs not mar,
them and the ship amply repays the Obligation
ihey aid each other; the water is more poeticai
S@ith the shp-the ship less so without the water.
nu. even a SNIP Tad up in dock, is q grand and
poetcal sight. Even an old boat. keel upwards.
"recnci Gaon the barren sand is 90 poetical' oh.
Ject (nd Wordsworth, who made a poem about a
sl'ng Tub and blind boy, may tell you SO as well
wafer, without the boat, would be rs like dull
pTos: rs any pamphlet lately published
mar maSes the poetry in the image rthe " mar
os Td"e y Idtm'or, or Grainser's % Ode to Soil.
taue' so much admired BIZ Johnson? Is il the
marble, or the tcdste, the artificial or the ,hl,
Tn object The g waste is like all other ;rasies
Out the . marble of Palmyra makes the poetry of
the sage as oil the place.
The beautiful but barren Hymettus. the whole
eoaS, oi Atica, her hills and mountains Pentclicus
anchesmes, Philopappus, &C. SC, are in them,
sSwcs p"encal, and would be SO il the name of
Athers, oil Athenaus, and her very ruins ,yero
swept from the earth. But am to be told tb,, tho
nature OF Attica would he more poetcal without
NE " art OF the Acropolis of the Temple of The
.sers and OF the still all Greek aud glorious monu-
menis OF her eSlusitey artificial genius Ask Tho
naveiier what strikes him as most poeticaI the
rarIhenon, or the rock which il stands The
COLUMNS OF Cape Colonna, or tire Cape itself The
800 az Tue loot OF ~ or the recollection that FaI-
eoners slap was bulged upon them, There are
tcoussnd rocks and capes, far more picturesoue
taan those OF the Acropolis and Cape Sunium in
themselves; what are they to "a thousand scenes in
me Whucr parts OF Greece, OF Asia Minor Switzer-
I,nd, or even OF Cintra in Portugal or to many
scenes oil ttaly and the Serras of Spain. But il IS
me GTt; the columns, the temples, the wrecked
vessel "hieh give them their antique and their
Inooern poetry, and not the spots themselves With
OF, thein, the spots OF earth would be unnoced and
unknown buried, like Babylon and Nneyeh. in
indistnct confusion, without poetry, as without ex-
,ssenee nut to whatever spot of earth these ruins
were transported, II they were capable of transpor-
e,non, Ike The obelisk, and the sphinx, and The
hiemnons head, there they would still exist in the
Prlecton OF their beauty, and in the pride of their
poetry; opposed, and will ever oppose. the rob
merry OF ruins from Athens instruct the English in
sculpture but why did do so The rims are ,s
poetcai in Piccadiily as they were in the Parthe
non out the farthenon and its rock are less SO
without them. Such is the poetry of art
- MIR. Bowles contends again that the pyromids of
gyptare poetcal, because of'' the association with
oonndie5' deserts" and that pyramid of the
SAME dun customs would not be sublime in Lin
coin Inn Fields - so poetical certainly bur
take away the pyramids and what is the q de-
s9t lake away Stone-henge from Salisbury
pam, ana II IS nothing more than Hounslow Heath
or any other unncloscd down. II appears to mo
mat ST Peters, the Coliseum, the Pantheon. the
iaiatine, the Apollo, the LAGOON, the Venus d
biedIcs me Hercules, the dying Gladiator the Mo.
ses oil Michael Angelo, and all the higher works of
Sanova, q have already spoken of those of ancient
Srecce, still cxtant in that country or transnortcd
- E.nsland) are "a pocicaias Mount Blanc or Mount
f.tna, perhaps still So us they are direct ma
he9auons OF mind, and PreS7tpposc poetry in their
very conception and have moreover as being such
something of actual life, which cannot BELONG to
any part OF inaninate nature, unless we adopt the
ESiem OF opnosl, that the world is the Deity
nero can be nothing more poctica in its aspect
man inc CITY oil Venice does this depend upon the
sea, or the canals p
The dirt and sea-wccd whence proud Venice rose ~
SIT the canal which runs between the palace and
inc PRISON, or the Bridge Of Signs - which cou
meets them, that render poctica3 Is The WCanaI
tTandc, or the Ralfo which arches II The church
es winch tower over il, the palaces which linz. and
inc gnndolas which glide over the waters tba, ron
Ger T ms city more poctcal than Rome itsef3 Mr.
po"ies VIM say Perhaps that the Riao is but mar
VI P,icns ana churches only stone and the
sphuots coarse black cloth, thrown over some
Panks oi carved wood, with n shining biz oC fan,as
ucaliy formed iron ut the Prov " ,choqa' thc w,,,c
ann leu hun that without these, the water would
ne nothing hut a clay-coloufed ditch and ,vbooror
saws the contrary, deserves to be n rho Lo,,"", %
tai where Ropes heroes are cd Inv tl,e mud
nymphs. There would be nothing 10 make The cav
mn OF enlce more Poetieal than that of Paddngton
were u not Tor the artificial adhncts
ed, although it is perfectly natural canal fr,J
y! INC sea, and The lnnumcrabe islands which con
stI,mtc the site OF this extraordinary CITY.
nc very Cioaca OF Iarquin at Rome are as no.
eucni as hichmOnd Hill many will think more en- -.
iake away homc, and leave the Thur nd tho scvo
n,ll-, IN the nature Of Evanders time Ic, NJ
no"les or Mr. Wordsworth, or Mr.. Southey. or
any 81 me other natnras,' make "A poem upon
mem, and then see which is most poetical tIc;r |
production, or the commonest pude-book which |
Tells YOU the road from ST. Peters 10 the CoI;sonn
ana informs YOU what you will see by the yay The
g.opnu interests IN virgil because il feW be Rome
hnl hoI because II Is E,andcrs rural domain
Mr. Bowlcs then proceeds 10 press Homer into |
ms service, ~ answer to a remark Of Mr. CampbeIIs
u.at lomer wac great dcscriber Of works Of |
" MI b"wlcs contends that all sgrcat power
wen W thls, depends upon their connection with |
nature. The shield OF Achilles derives lie noct;
cal interest from the subjects described on II y And
rom what does the peer Of Achilles derive lie nte
a afs anu me helmet aud the mail worn by Patro-
c-' ana INC celestial armour, and the very brazcn
EtcaYcs OF the wei booted Greeks Is il solely from
INC legs aud the back and the breast. and The br.
nm BODY which they enclose IN that case, il
Gh, -, ,a,J I'm more poetIcal to have made them
ngnt naked, and Gulley and Gregson as being near.
81 70 state ~ nature, are more poeiical boxing in
raiT Of ra Hcrs than Hector and Achilles in rsd;
an armour vi with heroic weapons
instead OF the clash Of hrlmcfs and the rushing NJ
thN5o's, ana TIE whzziDg OF spears. and the ranc.
ir' oi swords, and tho cloayng Of shields and tle
PIERCING Of breasipalcs, why not represent the
H'ecks and Irojaps Ike two savage tribes, Juggling
and tearing and kicking nod biting and roasbiny
io1ming grnning aud couging in all the poeirv III
h't-tal nature, unincunhered with gross prostic |
"''hclal arms, an equal superiority to the natural
""tios' and ne natural poet. i there any thing
"lyoeical in Ulysses striking the horses Of Vheseue
van !'s 'o', Craving forgOasn his ibong, or would