The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-07-22
i, YsaSon Ytg Monthly Magazine
wv THE LIBRARY.

5.falaah aar hats and mafeh win
-. ..z..zz lar - re about 10 enter III
'.-,.5r...##at intellectual heaven, where
ea+sI.a Oh tFuse master spirits oi
=ts,sa ave achieved immortality ;
,-..st.I -IzIIs who have undergone
-.4.s.fs. asi fen the shelves oil
t. ss.-.f- s.nrie stu hold silent com
ii'' #,,.sI, fHalr natz' rotaries. Here,
a.s.e5a ueus. are concentrated TIE rays
=>,...esss4 Ina! #.cssface Cadmus, the
..=.t5F n iaafsHe, dlscdfaed the noble art
ihl"..-..f.qg 50 sa.aa volatile aud invisible
o'.'.z.-#.4 Thought. sd 'mpsrted 10 1t an
.;.fsaee 1sle durable .ian that oil brass
'A-=..lF. pHs was. adred, a triumph
AT .ser matter sac lighting up ola
I'm. tbe formation 81 4 moral world on
:, ..f.-.,F 10 tae Almighty fat dat pro.
"a creation. Bat fpr this MIRACULOUS
-. It eftf5ilIus Knowledge, he rea-
f,ea,g W68,d have been hes owed
90, nan in ,a.a II would have persisted
- tbe eyapesceat frame in which II Nas
embodied human experience won!d lot
a.t.ad bcvoad Individual life the wisdom
ofe.ch eanerat.0a would belost to is sac
cessor. and tie world could never lave
an,4rged from he darkness Of Bnhalism.
thanks hase 8ee5 toe great MIXERS oil
n,3 Tne earliest literature Of every
ronotry has bcea profanity agricultural ;
far subsistence The most pressing want
of every NV community abundance,
when obtained ynnld have TO 10 secured
from the attaeiss oil less industrious saVases.
b4nce the necessity for the arts OF war, tOf
eloouence. hymns Of battle, ard funeral
erations Plenty aud security soon intro
duced luxury ana retirement leisure Is
found for writing and reading E; literature
become oraameuisi as well AS useful aud
poets ave valued not only for the delight
they afford but for their exclusive power
of comforting d Gel brity more durable than
all the fame thar cea be achieved by me
dals, statues, monuments, and pyramids,
or even bv the foundation of cities, dynas-
lies, aad empires.
This battered, soiIed, and dogs cared
Homer, ST. fraught with scholastic reminls-
cences, is The most sublime illustration oI
the preservatIve power OF poetry that the
world has yet produced. Nearly three
thousand years H. e elapsed since the body
OF the author reverted To dust, and here Is
his mind, his thoughts, his very words
handed down, To us entire, although the
language In which he wrote has for many
ages become silent upoa the earth. TIM
circumstance, howeyer, IS rather favorable
10 endurance for classic poem, like tht
Phnulx, rises with renewed vlgor from The
ashes Of it. language.
lie who writes in living tongue casts {
flower upon a running stream, which
buoys il ~, and carries it swimm'usly
forward To- time, bat the rapidly ot i:
flight destroys its freshness and witners liz
form, when, the beauties Gifts leaves being
no longer recognizable, il soon sinks unno
tlced n The bottom. A poem in "A deaC
ingaage is the same flower poised upon ;
still, secluded fountain, whose uaperturbet
waters 5ra3raily convert il into a pctrl
de- Acuales 'Hyuaerabie he was dipped
ioto The river Of the dead, and he wb,
would aIa his work against the scythe oil
iime, must ciotaa Ii in AN extinct language
When the Chan bard wandered through
the world reciling his unwritten verses
winch thea existed only as a sound, The
hes WITH Is hundred gates fnurishe1 in all
It's siupeHdpGs maghifcence, and the lea
fEeTa IHIia = and gentlemen who grin at MS
or n1s,os,, ',''i ','' uu,,' -
d,arin~ IN ~ bs r ,a ano', r rato
,b.,ns.l. - ;,',''' W Ps' ""ia p
1ic,l An, ar a.. d";f' u'bnsa ,,;.b ' bano
was rn',,aat ~ 40 t ,
pra.,f -, ',,I ta,,,.,ls 80, -. E,lI
by Captain Fitzclarence. Three buadred
Wears rolled away after the Had Mas cuna-
Eosp1 before The sbcswal I dns,iacd 70 n ~"
Tsb 3nm9ioes md Ro' s'',,,, ~ ',o'
The wilderness al A.. Seven hii's nharaan
tba n,arlLa cl.oas nr 1a,' ''''' ,.h,',
sruently 10 be founded. pm why instance
,nortais and cities l5at b,y,. snr,,nr nm and
crumbIed into dust, since nm Immortal has
been called into existence IN the in4eryen-