The Arkansas advocate., 1830-12-15
and tranquility Of mind, nor can any 1 thing but her loss oI yirtue Justify his 1

N expressly promised or not, It is Of little signitication. For Il he has solicited and obtained her affections. OH suppo- sition that he intended to marry her. the contractis, in the sight ot heaven, sufficiently binding. h short, the man who baseiy imposed upon the honest heart ot an unsuspeeting girl, and after winning her affections bY the preYail- ing rhetoric of courtship, ungenerously leaves hera bitter sorrow, and complain ing, acts a very dishonorable part, and is more to be detested than a common
 robber. For private treachery is much
 more heinous than open force; and mo- aey must not be putin competition with
 happiness.
 Byron's .MaGfsd.-Mr. Galt, in his late biography of Lord Byron, thus
 speaks of Manlred,r by that noble- man:
 The delineation of the Promethian fortitude which delied conscience, as he has shown it in Manfred, is his great est achieyment. The terrific fables of Marlowe, and of Goethe, in their res pectiye versions of the legend of 'Faus- tus,' had disclosed the utmost writhings, which remorse, in the fiercest of it's tor ments, can express; but what are those Laocoon agonles to the sublime sere- nity of Manfred. in the power, the originality and the genius combined, of that unexampled performance, Lord Byron has placed himself on an equa- lity with Milton. The Satan of < Pa radise Lost,o is animated by motives, and digniiied by an eternal enterprise. lie hath purposes of infinite prospect to perform, and an immeasurable ambi- ton to satisfy, Manfred hath neither purpose, nor ambition, nor any desire that seeks qualification. He hath done Q deed which sewers him from hope, as eyerlastingly as the apostacy with the angels had done Satan. lie ackaowl- edges no contrition to bespeak commis- setation, he complains of no wrong to justify revenge, for he feels none; he despises sympathy, and almost glories in his perdition. The creation of such q character is in the subiimest degree of originality. to give 1t appropriate thoughts and feelings required powers worthy of the conception; and to make it susceptible of being contemplated as within the scope and range of human sympathy, places Byron above all con- temporaries and antncedents. Milton has described in Satan the greatest O. human passion, supernatural attributes, directed to immoral intents, and stane with inextinguishable revenge; but sa- tan is only dilation of man. Manfred is lottier, and worse thanSatan; he has conquered punishment having within himself greater than hell can infiict. There is fearful mystery in this con- ception; itis only by solemnly question: ing the spirits that turk within the dark metaphors in which Manfred expresses himself, that the hideous secrets of the character can be conjectured.n
 Lood Byyon's fseiipg of Lope.-It is singular, and l am not aware 1t has been before noticed, that, with all his tender and impassioned apos- trophe's to beauty and love, Byron has in no instance, not even in the freest passages of Don Juan, associated either in the one or the other with sen- sual images. The extravagance of Shakespeare's Juliet, when she speaks of Romeo being cut after death into the stars. that the world may be in love with night, is flame, and ecstaey, compared to the icy metaphisieal glitter of Byron's amorous allusions. The verses begin ming with;
 S' She walks in beauty like the light,
 Of eastern chmes and rtarry skies, IS perfect example of what have conceived of his bodiless admiration of beauty and oblectless enthusiasm of love. The sentiment itself is unques- tionably in the highest mode of tie in- tellectpal sense of beauty; the smile is, however, any thing butsuch an image as the beautyof women would suggest. it IS only the remembrance of some im- pression or imagination of the lovellneso of twilight applied to an object that awakened the same abstract general idea of beauty. The fancy which could conceive inits passions the charms of female to be like the glow of the eyen- ing, orthe general effect of the midnight stars, must have been enamored of some