Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-10-19

How mature too the honours that doomed round thy
youth, &c.
They exhibit no trophies of countries laid ,oaste, &C.
The bosom of love and tDnrm couches of down. &c.
And for her the last drop ofhs life blood to spill, &C.
AS again We behold these ilustrious plains, &c.
And army meets army, in awful array, &c.
The subioined extracts, although thousands 81
Others equally in point, might be adduced, will be
amply sufficient for my present purpose.
Our Cumberlands s,ceet-bread its place shall obtain
Our Garrick's salad, for IN him we see
Here waiter aUine, let me sat aohtte I'm able
Here lies the good Dean reunited to earth
Who mired reason with pleasure wisdom with mirth-
Though raught with all learning yet straning his throat
To persuade Tommy Iownsendto lend him a vote
Goldsmith.
Roll on thou fair orb, and with gladness pursue
But mans faded glory what change shall renew
Perumed with fresh Fragrance and glittering with dew
But when shall spring visst the Wondering urn
,ohen shall dag dam on the night ofthe gravel
See truth, lone and mercy in triumph descending
On the cold cheek of death smiles and roses blending
Beattie.
But what were his arguments fen peopkknow-
For the court did not hiak they equally wlse.-
So his lordship decreed with grare solemn face.
Cowper
Thy foreign donations like ,oiM grqttings shoot
The world was great C8Sar's, &c.
Bears sUoues and SeanonSteTs they rushed from their
den
The shark hears their shreks, and ascending to day
For aUide and more scde DER the sun-beaming zone
Beneath his broad footsteps the Gauges is dry
Lone led the ,cd hordeS in his fOUer-tUoUen bands.
Montgomery.
No more by SUeet Terra Cadwallan shall rave,
And mia his aoiM notes with the uiddashing acare,
Thy sons, Din1s Eminn, may march in their pride,
And chase the proud SarOn from Prestatyn's side;
And oh, Dnas EmAnn, thy daughters so fair,
Who heaue the aDbite boson and the dark hair
And thou ,ohose faint oarbhngs my weakness can tell,
FarelveH my loued harp my last treasure, tare0eA-
Sir Walter Scott.
No,c, fur, far behind him, the green acaters glide
Ills the ghtnings red flame painting haI on the sky
Wild ,inds and mad acqres dr0e the uesseI awreck-
Unseen hands of spirits ringing his knell-Damond.
That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war
Flu fill up their ,Uide sunny ,catrS, we sails
From each slaue mart of Ewopeand poison their shore
Then blame not the bard, if in pleasures soft dream
Wert thou all that wish thee, great glorious, and free,
First fo,oer of the earth and first gem of the sea,
Whose hearts like the young of the deserbirds nest,
Drink Lore in each Ets-drop that flows from thy breast
Tom. Moore.
In Efe's morning march, when my bosom was young,
heard my oacn mountain goatS bea'ing alott-
And knew the Scee strain that the cornreapers sung,
From my home, and my accepting friends TO part
Our buges sang truce for the night cloud had lowerd,
And thousands had sunk on the ground overpocered.-
Campbell.
These are few among the innumerabe ex-
amples which might be cited from the best writ
ers of Anapaestic verse, to show that they do
not conine themselves to tine regular alterna-
ZION of the long and short syilables, 90
technically forming this species of measure
And these are sufficient to prove that, if have
erred in this particular, have had very respec-
table associates in my alterations. Yet do
not offer this fact as an argument III justification
OF the practice in question. 1t 1t be wrong,
names and numbers cannot sanctify it. had
been taught 10 believe, that in these cases OF
variation in the quantity belonging to any par
ticular species OF verse, much depended on the
manner of reatling it; on the UiUa Uoce regula-
ton of the accent and pauses; and that the di-
versity Of sentiment pertaining to different pas
sages, required corresponding change in the
march of the measure, and that this might take
place in the Anapaesti as well as III the lambic,
without an entire departure from its general
characteristics; the sense Of some passages be-
ing adapted to measure rapid and sprightly,
while that Of others demanded measure more
tardy and majestic; thus avoiding wearlsome
monotony, as we'll as dscordance between the
sound and sentiment; and what Hughes in his
"Notes for an Essay on the Harmony Of verse, )"
calls "a kind Of jig movement" such as would
be produced by frequent repetition Of lines
like this
When sigh to my Phyllis, and gaze on her eyes.
But listen 10 criticism on this subject with
great Difference, and hope to profit by it.
might attempt to justify, by quotations from
standard poets, the use Of the words "pow-er,
bowers, reverence, Venerable" SC as they stand
in the Greeting; but if have availed myself Of
the authority of precedent to use them, do it
under conviction that they detract somewhat
from The funess and melody of the verse into
which they are thus introduced, and | would
therefore, rather bow TO the correctness of your
criticism on this point than aim al its refuta-
ton. You have clearly convicted me of baving,
anon more than one occasion, exhibited myself
laundering upon the slippery sides of Parnas-
sus, mounted on "fve footed monster " This
confess is an awkward situation to appear in,
and / promise, that when | hereafter journey
on the sacred mount, will, instead of keeping
my eyes, block-head like, always gazing up
wards, and training their vision in efforts to
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