Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-04-08

poet Who, could he have looked into TINS irish acadc
ny, from that part OF the nictnal regions in which
lac has been placed by his pupil Drnle, might have
berp tempted to cxcaim in the pathetic words of hi
own hero
Sum, hic e,iam prcn,ia iau,Ii
Sunt lachryne nenicn iuoraia angUnt.
''Who's head" was the first question proposed By
the assistant after he had thrown open the volume al
that part markcd as the days lesson.
''Jim Naughtin, sir - ~
'Well Nuughtin, begin, consiher, consther nov
al be quick
~ puer Ascanius n,etlis in vaifris aeri
eisuact equo' jamqne hos corsu jam prs,er, i!os;
Spumsnie'nque dafi-
go on, sir, why don't you consthcr."
1t Pae' .7sodnfns," the person 80 addressed be
ggn. but the boy Ascanius; sd'is oaft6ns in the
hhedle Of The vallics; gas'det, rcioices"
" "EXulF, a "a sral. eXplts is a better word"
i19noef, exu.si acre equo, upon his btthcr horse -
Oh Eurther alivo, bis bitthcr Nurse, nall, ARA
what would maze horse be biitber, JIM Sure tisn't
OF sour beer he's talkin? Rc1oicin upon a bitthor
hosst. Dear knoGs- what~e show he was, what raj
son he had for it. .9cri equo, upon his mettlcspmc
s-e"i, that's the construction
iinproceeded:
".9ri eqao, upon his mettlcsome stcetf Janouc, and
nov, Proierd, he goes beyond:''
s''Outsthrips, Chfee."
'reis,t, he outstrips hos these; j1mquc illos and
now those, cMsu, in his course; que and; optat he
longs,"
Very good jim, longs is a very good word there
thought you were goin to say tcishes. Did any bo-
dytcli YOU thut'''
"Dicki.s one, sir"
THAT'S good boy. Wc."
'opth' he longs; spq'aantem dpruD', thata foam
aoa'i dar, shall be given; colts to his desires;
pet ftGsu1a ieonem. or that-a tuwny lion:"
:afs good word, agin Ta'eny is good word;
bss.er than gailo0."
ossceaetere, shall descend monte, lfom the noun
tlie.''
Nov. boys, observe the beauty OF the poet
ters great nature in the picture Of the bow Asca-
mus Just The same way os VIC see young Misther
Kelly, of the Grove, at the fox chase the other day
ha''u The whole of 'em, right an left, Jan1que hos
gGmqSe Hto', and now Misther Cleary, an now Cap
tain Davis, he outstripped in his course beautiful
picture, boys there is in them four lines of high
bioodcd youth See, people always the same;
times an manners change but the heart Of man is
DOW the il was in the days of Auptis
But consther your task, Jim, an then I'll give you on
the boys little commentary upon its beauties"
The boy obeyed, and read far preterit no,nine
r"tP1nt eter which The assistant proceeded 10 pro-
nonncc his little commentary Unwilling to deprive
the literary world of any advantage which the mighty
monarch of the Roman epopec may derive from his
analysis, We subioin the speech without any abrdge-
ment
Snow, boys, for what told We. Them seventeen
Lines that jim Nauehteen considered this minute
contains as much as fifty in modern book. pointed
out 10 ye before, the picture of Ascanus an I'll back
= again the world for nature. Then there's the in
c:pient storm
lateral mssno insect mpmuFe coelOm
Ineipit;
Ezra, don't be talkiu but listen to that! There's
rumb!in in the language like the sound OF comm
thunder.
-Inseqniur commisia grandine nimbus
Dye hear the changes Dye hear at all the s. 81
Dye hear 'em WhislIn'? Dye hear the black squaIl
comm up the hill side, brushn' up the dust an dhrv
leaves off the road and ssin' through the trees an
uuShei apd dye hear The hail driven after. an spat
term the leaves and whittenm' the face of the coun.
iny! COnmista grdndine nin6uG That mjphtnt
SIN, but when read them words, gathered my head
down between my shoulders if was hailIn' ton
q me. An then the sight Of al the huntin' pnrty,--
Dido an tho Throjans, an all the great eoort ladies'
an the TyriaD companions scattered like c7acked
people about the place, ooIn for shelter and petin
about right and left, neither and bethcr, all drec-
tons for the bare lfe an the floods swein' nm COM
IN thunderia' down in rsers from the mountains, an
oil IN three lines:
~ lyTu coniiles passin 81 TToana juyentUs.
, Derianaiusque nepos yeneris, diverss rsr agros
Ieea meiu Psiere Tuuni dc non,ibus amnsss
Ind sec the beauty of the poet, fJowin up the cha
acter OF Ascanius, he makes him the last 10 aut the
field First the Tyran comrndesi an efFemjnate
race, that ran at the sgh Of shower as ftey were
made salt, and they'd melt under IT, and then the
Trojan youth, lsds that were used 30 it. in the first
book and last Of all the spirited boy hscsnins him
sell, tStencc near tho doore!l
Speuneam Dido, duz et Trojsnus CAMDEN,
Observe, boys he no longer calls him. rs ofoId I'm.
pms sJSnens only. dur T1T1anus the Tfoinu laidhsr
IN ps nc mat was the laidhcr and the lad see the
taste Of the poet not to call him the pious neps sov
"'i,'l"h iiis hhines Us II were he half
ashamed OF him, KNOWN well what a lad no mad To
doe with There's wbero Virgil took the ornst ont
% uomers mouth, in the nateness Of his LANGUAGE.
'lat you'd gather part Of the feelln' fron tho verv
snaieo tho me an turn o. the prosotIy. As for
merry when Dido was asking Hneas na concernino
WheTe ne came from, an where he was bound' he
makes answers "'
E,iiocns, He'po'ap Glai oognomne dcunt
ERA antique, poieus arnIis aique ubers tip,,e
Huc cuTsus fut $3.50
And tlicrc the linc stops short, as much ne n an,
rist as cut this line SHORT in spakin TO you iust ~
way. when Juno is vexed ia talkinj q the 'rb,ia
'Silcncc) sue 10
.----Mcne inccpio desisiere tioiuu,
Nee posse Italia Teocsorun avertere tegenS
Quppe victor latisi Pslasno e1ursgo eiasser,
Afs'yuin aique iPsos pohiit fbneese po0o.