Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-05-09

certainty very pretty; 4 is full OF the slesant
md the wonderful! We tnow what he meant
tp'say; il was thss 7" Yesterday, we took pas
sage in the Steam Boat Come cticut, and after
HAVING been on board Of her two hours and
thirty minutes, We arrived at this port.-But
this is rife. when compared with the beau
6 ice contained in the other exquisite and
purely classical parts fthe sentence. On his
arrival at Newport, " in the Steam Boat Con-
nccticut, and in two hours and thirty minutes"
he found " the lovciicst gem upon the bosom Of
tie ocean, in tears" What pteous sight
must have been presented to the beholder,
when ho found the town Of Newport, Q well
built place. up TO her knees in tears Alas poor
Newport, we pity thy suaerings, and we lament
tho disaster that made thee shed tears A
town shed tears . It's an odd figure, but it
must be correct ifthc gentleman says it is. Just
as we were about to mingle our tears with
those Of poor Newport tho gentleman in
formed US that he did not mean 10 say she
wept great tears, but that she was " drenched
with rain :" How affecting But did the rain
fall from Newport, or from the skies If it
descended from the Heavens, how could the
figure apply to Newport, and cause her to be
in tears.
Newport the gentlemansays, is the "oveliest
gem upon the bosom Of the ocean," Now We
confess ourselves enlightened; our gcographi-
cal information has been materially extended,
and but for the kindness of the gentleman, we
should not have known, that Newport is " up
on the ocean" We always supposed the town
to be as firmly located on terra yfrnsa. as Brit
aims " fast anchored Isle" and have never be-
fore been told, that it is a floating Island, an
chored occasionally in the Bay Of Narragan-
sett, and then in some other convenient haven.
But {" it must be so Plato" for the gentleman
avows il to be fact. Newport, and the whole
Island of Rhode-Island, was probably formed
like the floating Islands in the Mexican Lakes,
concerning which, Doct Robinson has written
much, and travellers have told many tales
The fact should be carefully noted down by fu-
ture geographers.
The gentleman was sadly panied to discover
that the FAIR brow Of Newport, was COW
vcred "with cloudsv' II must have been I" a
sorry sight," and we are not at all surprised
that he was panied when he behcld it -
Who can behold town, with its fair brow,
covered with clouds, and its golden trcsscs
stepped in tears, without being panied He
that can behold such a spectacle and not be
pained, mnst be dead to all the ennobling feel
ings Of humanity. For ourselves, we never
saw such a spectacle--nor have we thus far
seen Newport's {" fair 6rou.." We hope the
gentleman will give us a description of the
I" fair 5roD" Of Newport.-Tho whole para
graph is full ofthe pathetic and touching, and
is bathed in " TEARS" Newport is in " tears"
her /" fair brop" is in tears;" her visitors
are in " tears;' and "tlo loyliest gem upon
the bosom Of the ocean" is in tears, Indeed
this must be the very season of tears; of "wecp-
ing and wailing and gnashing of teeth" To
be serious, the paragraph may justly be rank
ed among the most ridiculous specimens Of
bombast and fustian ever presented to the pub
lie; and for the credit Of the Rhode Island
Press, it is to be hoped that similar one will
never be handed to the people. 1t is a
wretchcd attempt at poetical prose /; the fig
urcs or metaphors, are unnatural and false -
they are Z" far-fctched," and jumbled together
by corrupt taste, and cannot fail to excite the
ridicule and the laughter Of the reader.