Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-09-09

TIA, sale's fate and mine are one,
whsn, on the shaft that made him die,
E@aed iealheE 81 his own,

Mhic, on the shaft that made him die,
VI Eagaed ieslheE 81 has own
II Maeewhh he wont 70 soar 60 high"
u Perhaps uf connecting link between the two
poes q . remark OF Sam Johnson. repeated il
Roswsli's liled that literary hippopotamus
MI MrSlueh i lac The cag lie mentioned by Walker tina
80 sha With - icataeTed from his wing"
4 Ascending gain 10 the time OF Waller, we fine
our bird ii he fables Of La Fontaine Whe.
der Ms o. H. English verses are the older, would
81 lifleua . well as useless To ascertain for both
Ysem 10 hart been copied from third source--tha
\ y Esop. he turn which each has severally given
( ~ lie idea eiokens no reference 20 his contempt
ugy. IA 0ntaine IL a. follows:
Il yo,,gilsnrni srsin, duns a.rhs empenee,
ia sases Asploreit uistr destinrs,
81 RI dsaa, sn saLitfan, Un surrroit de douleur
II . Fsai i cpgir.s'pcr son IIaPfe malheur
II = Cruas hamans urcz lie allies
I "ne aAai iairs sollef machines mortelles
MAJ ~ yoas mpgasz pas, engeancc sans pie
j" Stsyent II vens arrive sort CONNIE ie nOlre
= bs enians ~ lapbet toujoars ene iInode
/ f,afaHA der arsses Fautr."
\ Quogar chiefly from memory, and not quite as
/ fsnlal with the text Of the old Greek hunchback
a. Gus political contemporaries appear TO be, we
cannot give .Esop's words but they may no doubt
h had III tie War OtEce, where the fabust is held
Ia great esteem.
Fwo nore instances Of this obvious amplfcation
from linls and We SHALL Cor he present, break off,
asking leave, however, soon 10 resume the subject,
ah'c6 we are vet very far from having exhausted
The first ~ these shall be from that charming
Piciare-like description Of nymph at her toilet,
which BYRON has gwen In his sixth canto OF Don
Juan !"
She was
chill a Nature, carclsssy arsyed
u iuId u a chance oge al her glass, ..
Twas LIKE tbs tawn which, Ia the lake displayed,
Behoas her shy, shadowy image pass, w..
When trss she starts. and then returns TO peep
Admir,ng this rev native Of the deep.
This u very artfully adapted from Eve at the
fountain, in Milton, as she so naturally describes
herself 70 Adam When she first awakes TO life,
sss hears and is attracted TO the linking Of brook:
A bent down to look just opposite
shape within the NaleFy gieam apPcard
Ben1ing b look me. started osck
Il started back, bot pie scd ! soon refund;
Pleased y returns n $500, with answering looks
OF sympathy and love.
The other case l. furnished BY the Eersicles"
which Byron addresses 10 Murray, in satire Of he
latest books which that publisher had then issued :
I have sesn the . Christabci I"
IS. Very well
| read the Missionary !"
...t PTetty--yeEy
read sheet d Margaret Of Anj3u /"
Can you =
turned pase Of scots a. Nsleflo, =
Pooh pooh
looked at Wordsworth milk white Rylstone due !"
Hl0l
These are compounded out OF two ePigrams BY
Boileau, upon successive tragedies OF the old age
Of the great Corneille unworthy Of his fame, and
the last progressively worse than the first. On the
former, he wrote the following brief critique in
rhyme:
J'ai va "fAgesilss ="
Hrlas
On the appearance Of the latter, still more aston
ishingly bad, he wrote again:
Apes " 'AgesiIas,"
Hclas
Aprss "rAdla,"
HolA
More fearful Of exhausting our readers than our
matter we must divide i, into several papers