Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-03-04

means. and he had thus all the embarassments
of d,me,,ic life without liz charms his al
fairs had. curing his absence, been suffered 70
fall into confusion, even greater 'hau 1ee's ip>
h.reu, tendency 10 such state varIaniea.-
There had been the preceding yssr an sxecs-
,;,o nm Nawslrad, for deb, Of l5ool. owing
- IN. Messrs. Brothers, upholsterers; and
circumstance told Of The veteran Joe Murray
on This occasion, well deserves 10 be mrn'ion.
cd To this faithful old servant, jealous oil
Inc ancient honor Of the 3yrons, The s'ghl OF
The notice Of sale, posed upon the hhpey
,.st could not be otherwise than an unsight-
!, and ip,oler able nuisance. Having enough,
however, Of the fear Of The law before his eyes
no, 10 tear the writing down, he wn at last
forced, as hi, only conBola,ory expsdieni' 70
paste . large piece Of brown paper on It,.
Lord Byron thought very liule Of the me,
rits Of Childe Harold, but promised himself
much lame from Pa,aphgas e Of The Art OF
Poetry csmpo.rd BY him while ahro'd-
'rhoueh,' say. MIR. Moore, '0n every 'h'nE
that if,sr his arrival u, the age OF manhood ne
produced, some mark Of them in the "as'e,
hand may he traced. ye, 10 prin, the whole Z"
nj. Psesphras. Of Horace, which extends 10
nearly 500 ilus., would be ., the beat tpl
Questionable compliment to his memory nat
the reader; hsaxver, may be enabled 10 form
,oms opinion Of . performance, which. by on
errsr Or caprice Of judgment, unt1ampieo
ps,hap.. in the annals Of l!era's'e, IT'S author
for lime prsf.rr.1 70 .he sublime reasonihGs
Of Chide Harold here seieets fe" 'uch
u..,s,e, from phrase AZ may Seem
, .,cuistrd TO Civ / Of its merits, aad It's
defects:
"rhs opening ofeRs Poem is, with reference
t.. the original, ingenious:
sWho would not laugh. ifI.swrence. hired to grace
III. costly CANVASS with each ha'ter'd face,
Abus'd his art. till Nature, with blush,
saw cts grow centnurs underneath his brush
or should some limner ioa, for show Ut sale,
maid of honor to a merInsG's TIL!
Or low Dubsst (as once the world he's SEEM
Degrade Gods creatures m his graphic spleen!
Not sii that forced poli,encss which defends
Fools in their faults, could gsg his srnnng friends
| Believe me- Moschus, like that picture seems
The book, wh;chs ser than sick mans dreams,
Display u crowd Of figures incomplete,
Poetic nightmares without head CT feet
"The following is roin co, and flicj,ously e1
pressed:
sThen glide down Grub street. fasting and forgot,
laughed ,Gto I.etbe by so'ns qasint review,
Whose Wit is never troublesome ti!l-true'
"Of the gr.ver parts, the annexed is a la
rorable specimen:
New worlds find credit in these latter days,
II neatly grated on 6siic phrase.
What Chaucer, spencer, did, scarce refuse
To Dryden'a or TO P"pe's ma,Irer muse.
Il you can add little, say. why not,
A. wei, ~ william Pitt and alter Scott
Since they. BY fore Of rhy me and furce of lungs,
Enrich'd our islands III united tonguesl
IT'S thine, aud shall be lawful to present
Reforms i'm writing, IL in Parliament,
As forests she'd their foliage By degrees,
So fade expressions which in please,
And We and ours. alasi are due TO fate,
And works and words but dwindie to 4 late.
| Though, IS a Monarch mods, and commerce calls,
Impetuous rivers stagnatc in canals,
Though swsmps subdued and marshes drained, sustain
The heavy plcughshare and The yellow grain;
Aud rising ports along the briny shore
Protect the vessel from old Oceans roar
AL, ALL must perish But Surviving last
The love Of letters half preserves the past;
True some decay, yet not few survive.
Though those shall sink which now appear to thrive,
As cGsiom srhitrstes, whose shifting swsy
Our life and language must alike obey
Thste i. . melancholy letter from Lord By.
ron to Mr.. Dal'ss, dated ll,h Octobrr 1911,
IN which he says -" II seems as though / were
o experience in my youth the greatest misery
Of age. My friend, fall around me, aud
shah be lef, lonely man before sm ~ithci ed.
Other men can always 'ske refuge in thrir fam.
lilies: have no resoure. but my own elections,
AID hey pfr~nt M prospect here or hereafter,
excep; the selfish satisfaction Of Surviving my
eeu.rs am, indeed, v,,y wretched e"
or the same ds'c says M. Moore) with
this melancholy letter arc the following verses
never before printed, which lie woe in answer
% ses,e lines received from a friend exhor,lng
him to be cheerful, and to- basish care They
| will ,hew with West gloomy fidelity, even while
under the pressure ofrecent SORROW, he rever.
ed to 'ht disappo,ntmrn Of his early sffactiun,
IS the chief source Of .ll his ,uffrrirgs aud
-rrsrS:
ftUstead -a6bey, Oef IL, 1911.
Oh! Danish care'-such ever be
The motto of thy rrvelry,
Perchance of nnne when wassail nights
Renew those rioto.s delights,
Wherewth the children Of despair
I!uil the loas heart, and Danish care
But not in morn's rejecting hour
when present, past, and future lower,
When ail loved is changed, 10 gone,
Mock with such taunts the woes Of one
Whose every thought-but let them pass
Thou tnow'st am not what WAS.
But, above all, If this worlds held
Place in heart thst mel, cnII