Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-11-19
select glorious old lyric from this yo-
lume. All here it is:


But might of Jove's nectar sip,
would not change for thine.
sent thee late rosy wreath,
Not SO much honoring thee,
AS giving it a hope that there
1t could not withered be;
But thou thereon dd'st only breathe,
| And send'st it back to me;
Since when it grows and smells, swear,
Not OF itself, but thee"
Glorious--is il not? Yet, you perceive
that the grace and freedom of Herrick's
day was somewhat departing, and that
conceits, often affected and sometimes
strained, were coming into fashion.
And now let US to our evening walk; for
as old Coke has it, after his knottiest dis
QUESTIONS, g this taste spfficeth for the pre-
sent" Nay, you would first ask US who
was the author of that quaint volume, in
its thick alf-binding and furnished gold
edges 1t IS our old friend Sir John Suck
ling. You will hear him constantly spo-
ken of by the pretenders to literary hsto-
ry, as companion of Buckingham, Ro-
chester, SedIey, and the other wits OF
Charles the Seconds court. 1t is mis-
take. Sucking was dead long before the
Rest Grafton, and had nothing to do with
the orgies of Backhurst, or the /" Uire la
bagatelle" of the Merry Monarch. But
he filled the transition period between two
great, yet dissimIlar epochs. He parlook,
therefore, of the peculiarities of BOTH
He touched with one foot the age of Eli
10 both with tho otbor Tho 600 "a Cbo -,
His poems have, at times, the grace oil
Sidney, and al other times, the reckless
ness of Rochester. He was a.tyDe of his
age, half poet, half courter: you would
find him one hour in his study, the next
hour at a debauch. He had hand in
most Of the galIantries of the day, and
knew how to cringe knee at Whitehall
with the best of them; but he was not all
"of The earth earthly - his better voice
would sometimes be heard; and there
Aaated through his soul, day and night,
dreams OF Immortal peesy. Had he Ii, ed
a generation sooner, he might have wed
with Herrick: had he been born a gene
ration later, be would have been only an
Etherege! As it was he played two oppo
site characters. From the palace he
went home, in lace and fuffles, to his YER
ses; from these he saun:ered to a supper
atsome tavern in the city. Many of his
poems are too free for the present day
but his coarseness was assumed, TO be in
the fashion; the deicacy they display be
longs to the man. Here is a poem "On
Seeing Q Bride" that will bear out whar
we say. Let US read some of the fines
conceits:
" Her feet beneath her petticoat,
Like little mice stole IN and ont,
As if they feared the light;
Pat, oh! she dances such way
No sun upon an Easter day,
} Is half so fine sight.
Her cheeks so rare white was on,
No daisy makes comparison,
5 WHO sees them is undone j
For streaks of red were mingled there.
! Such as are on Catharine pear,
. The side that's next the sum-
7 Her lips were red, and one was thin,
/: Compared to that was next her chin,
(Some bee had stung it newly j
But, Dick, her eyes SO guard her face,
burst no more upon them gaze
Than on the sun N July"
Now for poem in his other characte
that of the gay gallant, and man of fash
ion. 1t is just such song as we ma,
suppose him TO have improvised at som
gay supper, when one of his dashing com
panions appeared in detection, "all VIC
BECOME with love-:
why SO pale and wan, fond lover!
Prithee, why so pale!
Win, if looking well can't move her,
Looking i'll prevail?
Prithee, why so pale
Why so dull and mute, young sinner!
Prithee, why so mute!
Will, when speaking well can't win hel
Saying nothing do t?
Pfithee, why SO mute?
Quit, quit for shame ; this will not NOV,
This cannot take her:
If Of herself she will not love,
Nothing can make her.
The devil take her.."
Nay!-shake not your finger at US, me
ry girl. Was it not yourself who too
down the book after we had closed Be
Jonson, and was it not solely to gratil
your curiosity that we stopped TO speak
Sucking? And how could we explai
the character of his genus without quo
OF ing as. we have? "PshawI' you to
Re yourpreity head, too. Well, then-is Il
= door open that we may run for it?-kno
OF that we agree with Sucaling ey
~ ry sensible man ought 10 forget you c
is at,attas ~ ,s.ca instead ne x,ir,fr "a v,ts,r n