Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-03-29


From The RiUais.-At the sound of The w.
" yirgil.'' from the lips Of the assistant ts A.. Won
class started from their seats, and crowded d Sn't
him, each brandishing smoky volume I IS
great Augustan poet, who, could he have l., ue
into this Irish academy, from that part of ~
fernal regions in which he has been nl,o ug n
his pupil Dante, might have been tempted =.
claim, in the pathetic words Of his own hero ~ ~
STUNT hc eti,m sua premia laudi.
Stunt lach'yms rerum ct menem noralia tsnep,.
'.Who's head" was the first question
posed by the assistant after he had thrown PN
the volume at that part marked at the day',
son.
Jim Naughtin, sir"
swell, Naughtin, begin, consther, coD,,b..
now, an be quick:
At puer Ascaniu, mediis in vallbus acri
Gusdet quo: jamquc hos cursu. Jam prs,er,ig,.
Spumsntemque dari-
eco on, sir, why don't YOU consther,".
SIT puer .4scm,ius," the person so addra,.
began, but the boy Ascanius; meiiis IN ,oG
bus, in the middle of the valies goude're rejoice,
''Exults, a ia gal, exults is better word
$ Gaudet, exults; acri equo. upon his bittls,
horse"
''Oh murther alive. his bitther horse. ,,s:
ARA what would make a horse be bither. lin |
Sure tisn't of sour beer he's taikin': ReiGrn,
upon bitther horse! Dear knows. what a .,o,
he was, what raison he had for it. der; ,,,.
upon his mettlesome steed. that's the con,5-.
ton.
Jim proceeded:
...Acri eq,o, upon his mettlesome steed .cr
que, and now; pr9ieri'. he goes beyond"
Outsthrips, chree."
.sPraterit he outstrips: hos these: janpy,
los, and now those; cursu in, his course, que and
opfat, he longs"
s. Very good Jim, longs is very good vri
there-I thought you were goin' to say rik,
Did any body tell you that"
Dickins one. slr,"
.sThat's good boy. Well?"
:. Optn he longs; sp,naa,'em aprma thai
foaming boar, dari, shall be given: rofs to 4,
desires; AIT fulr,tm leonem, or that tswny Hoa.
..Thats a good word. asin. Tawny is SS
word; betther than yallo,c."
Descendere shall descend; monte, from b.
mountain"
..Now, boys, observe the beauty of the Pc.
There's great nature in the picture Of the boy A,
canius. Just the same way as We see yOlg
Misther Kelly, of the Grove, at the fox ctav
the other day, batin' the whole of 'em, right ii
left, Jamgue hos, iamque illos, and now M.Ibs
Cleary, an now Captain Davis, he outsthiE&
in his course. A beautiful picture, BOYS, tn
is in them four lines of a fine high bloOded yGA
See. people are always the same; times an nlt
ners change, but the heart of man now i Il
same as it was in the days of Ausustus-Br
consther your task, Jim, an then III give 70
an the boys little commentary upon It's blF
ties"
The boy obeyed, and read as far as pAaH
non,ine cuipana, after which the assistant Pr@r4
ed to pronounce his little commentary. lISi
ling to deprive the literary world Of any ldrD
tage which the mighty monarch of the ROna
epopee may derive from his ana ysis. We .uoys
the speech without any abridgement:
"Now, boys, for what told We. Then "
enteen lines that Jim Naughteen constherd tn
minute. contains as much as fifty. in noder
book. pointed out to We. be fore, the rtil'
of Ascanius, an I'll back it again the world ID
nature. Then there's the inciplent storm
Interea magno miscer murmurc coelum
Incipit;
Ezra, dont't be talkin' butlisten to that There
rumblin' in the language like the sOundo COZ
in thunder.
-insequiter conmista grandine nimbus
Dye hear the change: Dye hear at all me-
Dive hear 'em whistlin? Dye hear the a1h
squall comm up the hill side. brusiIn y u
dust an dhry leaves of the road, ana Ins ~
through the trees an bushes: and dye hel' y
hail dhriven after, an spattern the leave iI
whittenip' the face of the country: 'M'" =,
grn,dine nimbus! That ! mishtnti 'n' "
when read them words, gather my neaau0 ~
between nv shoulders, as ifit was hahn q y
O. me. AM then the sight Of all the nuIun =
ty? Dido, an the Throjads, an all 'ns ~! y.
coort ladies, an the Tyrian companions '' LJr
ed like cracked people about the place, w. !,
for shelter, and peltin' about right ana !t,' N
Their and thether, in all directions LOT us
life, an the floods swellin' an comm uu" n
down in rivers from the mountains, d. -
three lines;
TT Tyrii comi,es passim, ct lr"Jana Ju'eIe,
Dsrdanaiusque nepos Veneris. Divers Ps
Tecta metu petiere: ruunt de mon''bu'
And see the beauty of the poet, ioos ", I:
character of Ascanius, he makes him 'ns e.
quit the field. First the Tyrian eoGiau HAS,
eifeminate race, that ran at the sight o.
as if they were made o. salt, that they u n ~ 4