Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-06-22

b; co moro P0FtcCt oVoty ooy ~ eSSa'o -
/ the hands of its classic author
I'VE lament to learn that n. O's famous
picture Of the Bom6ardment Of Jerusalem
will not grace the ensuing Exhibition, but
! the lovers Of the arts will be consoled
with Us on being informed that it may be
seen.at his residence, No. III, next door
to the Ophthalmia Hospital, in the Re
gents Park, and that many sublime touch
es have recently been added to this mas
terly composition
Then again we are compelled er oficio
to sympathize in print with all the hypo-
thetical happiness, (heaven knows how
! few in realityD of Authors, Artists, Play.
ers,7 Lecturers, Publishers, Picture-deal-
ers, Exhibitors, Teachers, Fiddlers, and
Hunters after popularity of every kind;
feeling all their troubles, and more than
partaking in all their great hopes; watch
ing their motions, as it were, and record
ing their progress with a maternal anx-
iety; comforting the public when they
! arc not Immediately prominent, with the
assurance that they will shortly be SO, &
being !enraptured with their stupendous
merits when they do come forward with
any labor-these are the mere first links
of our intimate connexion with every
thing in the above lines
Our opinions too are of mighty impor-
lance
After seeing the midnight lamp expire
in reading P's manuscript preparing for
the press, we are raped out Of bed at S
O'Clock by g. determined not to present
his exhibition to the world, without con
sulting US on the merits, $50 that ace too
must stand the hazard,') of the die. r.
invites as to inspect his model six miles
off, before he erects his national monu-
ment to the memory of Tom Thumb the
Great; our knowledge of the original, &
historical information, rendering our
judgment on the subject 80 truly desira-
bic. Our meals are interrupted, our re-
tirement broken in upon, our very sick
rooms invaded, by the discoveries of Gu
rious inventions; the writer's of poetry ac-
cording to their own nomenclature and
the projectors of the most immortal
schemes that ever an ungrateful world
sighted as absurd and ridiculous.
Then the multitude of especial favors
that ne receive-each in his sphere! Be-
ing chosen as the most appropriate chan
mel for highly (sslf) interesting commu.
nication:--the publishers of long ESSAYS
written in haste and in want of our kind
corrections:---the most excellent paper
for an exposition of the greatest conse-
quence to our readers in the improvement
of S. patent:-the respectable medium
Tor answering US attack on VS. impor-
tant letter:-the valuable journal for
widely disseminating specimen of W.
intended publication on . question of I'm
iversal attraction!
1t must be confessed that our enioy-
ments are occasionally chequered with |
some slight regrets. We find poets very |
hard hearted, and if we affront them by |
not Immediately inserting th.i- Produc-
tons, we are sure of severe sco1ding, .
heavy postage, and anger everlasting.
Essayists are also obdurate dogs to deal
with, if disappointed on the ensuing dav
of publication, there is no escaping their
remonstrance. In vain do we bury our
selves in the darkest corner of our study.
and entrench ourselves behind the lies of
our servants " not at home;" we are in.
variably dug out, and suffer exposure
Authors whom our consciences will not
allow us to praise charge US with preiu-
dice, Partially, corruption, illiberality.
malevolence, and all the deadly sins of
human nature, Artists are still more in
tolerant and greedy Of praise. Their ap-
Petites for fiartery are only equalIed by
their lmmeasunble irritability and woe
be to that critic who does not discover in
every daub the col6ring of Titan, combi-
ned with the grandeur of Michael Ange-
10; in everyplaster model, the fancied fire
Of Phidias, and. the imagined beauty of
Praxitelas. Indeed, we have ascertained
that the most public characters have
such capacious stomachs for applause.
that there is no risk of surfeitine them
with panegyric, but, on the contrary. |,
much danger of being thought churls and !
niggardly starvlings for not giving enough l.
Reviews must be puffs-criticism m1st
observe no blemishes-biographers must
make men angels II
Then we are occasionally sore beset
with temptations; A pretty poetsss has
ust finished her first attempt, "Stanzas
GA favorite Goldfnch and with down
asst blue eyes, q heaving bosom, and /.
aulterlng voice, entreats to see it in print
We are martyred between the writer | A
nd writing. Such supplicant, what a
nan can deny? such a composition. what :
dltor can insertP A philanthropist has =
plan tor the reiiefof the poor-have we
knv,