Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1827-02-09
mtseeltaaeas.a Departn.eut.
From a iGte English Pu5licatioa.
PARRIAHA.

PARRIAHA
iar!s dislike TO puns has been very I,ly ou;iced
But remember two different occasions ,!at he
matte a kind of Latin pun. at the Gist he laughed
iH,TncrIeratcy. have since seen il I'm some nubIica
ton, ascrlbed TO somebody else. He was reach;r-
= buu1 from it's shelf, when two octave volumes came
Essays had fallen upon book Of criticism bv The
Ahbo dn Bos There" said he, with a half sunprcs,
ted chuckoS, "see what has happened
Procumbit Bos."
The other occasion alluded to, W as when he had
slight cold, ana The door and Window being aCCden-
tally opened at the lime, and strong current of
air having rushed in, sStop STOP" said he ,tat is too
mach. AN at present only
PAR icvbU5 vents
Then he stopped ana smiled; but recolIec.ne the other
part oil the ne he finished it in rather serious ac-
cent.
voluc:ique simlima sommo."
.!c then shook his head, and said in a low voice al
:n'r So Aiy life has hitherto been little more than
sleep; my Proudest subjects but day dreansn We did
not encourage so melancholy of ideas Pro-
lady, III throwing rapid glance his literary life
conscience suitenly struck him. how few ncnoria Is
vi his great knowledge and powerful talents he had
wasted upon the lecpg aud peIsia5le controversies
Of le day.
lie bad, mcIeoyer, in general, Il decided repurnance
10 plays upon words 1t betrayed, he said an iutrin
sic poverty in the language; rather, could not help
observing, n Jisputable proposition. He went on
TIE richest language will be found the least suscep-
lie of pun. The Greek is too Copous for pnps. IL
supplies many words the same time for eyery shade
and variety Of thought and never drives YOU 10 use
words o similar sound, but different accepation The
Greek language is that music of The mind which The
slightest eQuVoc#tiO3 of words would derange and nut
ont of tune. Not that there no Greek nuns You
VIII find plenty, If you look into Atleneus; and some
Of A!IstOpha1css' great delight TO his audience;
ont then !hey elaborated by mere force from the
Attic language. They did not come to hand spon,a
neously the puos Of English punster; but hey
were hammered ont like The lghtnings which were
forged by the hammers of the Cyclops. Yet, E5lan
gives tclerable good pun, which must have been
an instantaneous one He tells it ofa Greek courlcsan;
for YOU know well enough that the Greek couresans
the oHiy Grecian ladies #h0 we're at all accoU-
T5hr3. SIZE happened to be in company with con-
C.Hci, iGII7cious traveller, who had wcaried the
V'.oe party with the various places that he had seen
a-I Ire different countries tbat lie had visited AND
Jes sticr ALL said sbe addressing herself 10 The Gon
after al! tie cities and towns you have seem you an
pear never TO have been at %I/N" Now sige was
weiknown town in Auca, and the cquiyooue ST.,
fenced hun" iN o.
Far was great aimirer Of Bishop jeremy TAYLOR.
and IN particular ot tho Discourse on Friendship and
,"e i'"y LIVING ana Dying of that eminent dyjne-
IN Lafrs sarcastic, cat eloquent Dedication of Tr,cf
by Harbufton and = Warburfonan ,Viere no Hi.
severe blow or Two al Bishop Unrd for CAPTAIN
hEz hut thriving qualities almost poculi,r IN hi
preiaic, hc speaks W:h delight Of GOTTEN y,nler;a
amidst the luminous galaxy Of BsIon 'T,ylor - re-,
remember his Observing That il was a style ,yLicb
dazAled by too much corusclion. The colors ,ysrn
too gflsnat@. He spoke ~ ad'nira,in Of fhe ,,
tefHitied play Of illustration and of fancy in Rn,I,c
who would have been as redundant as Jeremy Taylor
il be nal been left 10 himself. "Buf then Sir Hnrtr
lived ~ an age whoa criticism bad imposed sunnpiua
~ laws upon fine writing get with all his TASTE ror
had moro, he sometimes forgr!s his restraints
and bounds, Ike Homer horse oy or his ras;,re WHOM
hc IS en1ncipaied from the Chariot IGc ,hrn rolled
ont TIE tines, in which that fine smile is enshr7ncd.