The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-29


fire DEATH cohorts elephants mounted By Tie follower:
the evil i, spirit the of or wG n
and love speaking the gentlest tones Here deformy
It's most IDEAL hdeousness there beauty wrapped up IN the
ym5om Of w fH asso Under
the mind Of modern days covers in its vain efforts to unrve
mem The Mahabafaa, or great war, set out IN that
eae ha 9 Of n o the h Asa
earth that common tradition which running through
OF al e ct bans M I
with symbosm sings of Rama the great Hndoo hero the
exploits slo9ry exile and woes, reheanes
still in this wonderful literature of Hindoostan the scholar
a yam o he M s % Of
attempt to trace up the historic causes 'S Of this Intellectual
let
afN e
those records which regretted in the beginning of this
d ss S lie s OF U Ts
like radiant IS star ar Ws Golden link whsh II aa Asia
the primitive ages of hs world The tradition Of the relations
Peasgc tribes which settled in Greece, now lost the traces
Of their journeyings have been rrecoverab swept from the
aiation with ancient Greece and with her
an senseea H u I olc Of
civilization, which enighened Europe Though ignoano
Of Indebtedness 10 her However largely she may have
borrowed from her predecessors still her special genius remains
pneckoned centuries Her literature Of beauty and Of
intellect ecrets which were exclusively hers not
to found in the symbols of Egypt and of India in the
Books The 'eme Of aPf wash for fst
osns
aresubdued the narration of facts induces Iucd and logical
and speak tie language feelings and thoughts Of humanity
tine precision OF history s ySr;fd from the ENTHUSIASM of
We're couched. The forms of intellect of abstract
This great deveIopemen of mind coeva with the advent
of old Homer Homer this day the OF
tina nf tho
% ~ ae
Of the theoeraey more Splendid pageant not spread on
the page of history than this spectacle Of the outbust
onfas aa e @
msT Wife R hear % Hd o into swaS
the and daring the Gods themselves the uterance
if they but consent a to give him light
Of this marvellous perfection Of seemingly spontaneous
and VITA Rf s ey Of Ths
PIRATE shadows and becoming lights His mind is Obvious to
all the impressions which nature CONVEYS He represents
lucid intellect and harmonious power which have immortal
Wso @e and s of of s wrath Of a Ae a s
e en l M al nj
poetry po and a wand Sets p
world UNEMPLOYED before his time. The system Of religious
q" PORTION Of the Divinity se @
By that a wand So a hs
possession of self of his individuality with the funess
an deal emblem lost and absorbed in the mmensity Of the
e Beg M Fri po 9 ma Ct ss 5
free the midst of the Universe and its influences against
resistance but they also embody his form of activity the
religion lays customs morals and civilization Of the Greeks
but recently wandered from their rugged mountains and s
ancestry, they offered this period a. sngulay poecal
admxure of herom and sayageness of fierce passions and
selfish energies and generous instincts The eye in Which
s Rs oy ss % s e y snd eenay
woye among them the first web of society Father and
citizen all find models Of almost nimitable beauty
and truth that simple yet magncent poetry of the Homec
fragile bliss and numbeess evils of the bitter mishaps and
entertainments OF primitive nature along streams OF music
dang their angry way to the shores of the vast and absorb
ing deep The charm of its sonoops language its marvellous
to the whole The very harmony OF the verse dsconses to
the Gods statle Olympus with the flown of bis brow,
whether the breath OF time sweep human generations away
one pb a to infer from a., the
Of the
poems; according to one OF the characteristics OF all eples
ne ahsI s bss
oe an h naenee ed e G the
hood and OF ROYALTY the uprising one is the advent Of
and Of the Of the Ada makes Wayfor Sparta
democracy The blending together Of the elements which
appeared. Troy had from her foundations and again
te@ her s Cd d no RE
from the cradle of GIecan civilization but strikes his sublime
Chords seated the majestic ruins OF already ancient
6o These and ether &c have induced wo
to question the existence Of Homer individual and
bard Of all the points Of belief in antiquity there is
fn a s Ns f IN Se d old Gsy Hos
d oe By he Of aa %he soaadef
opinions Of the world under the Influence of
teachings of sensual pagansnl. But how could any one
believe that the voice wis still nge the charmed
oW that the e @ yag Of
ow 5 aa seeas & the s
men1s OF Which Were egonsy gaeed up BY MsehyE
brain, without aloca! habitaon in living human iames
he stood the dusty roads of Iona if the world shall still
continue to accept his song and yet deny him the award of
This immortal rhapsodist-his sublime babber of imperisl
at the threshold ofevery CIVILIZED nation beiesedn
hma have bound his wayon oes and touched MS
to en- from Zach upTg en- IA a eh eaP
peDdo? Of the MONDAY sun flashing upon sight that
the glorious orb quenched sends forth single beam 70
dull eudon that the man who sang by the waters Of the
blue an the @ mas ms 70 I
of the astounding sea- but an ideal type OF
ov OF It too the day to hold him p u as phan
the seal OF d Sa on I anS the esseg
their fame rise up in witness AGAINST your desecat,on OF
undying mind. And should modern crllcIsm,
sharing the nature of IFS parenage modern skeptcis.
succeed in Wrestling the crown from his brow whose is the
gddy head that dare sustain the weight OF this round and
top of poeical sovereignty
Retacng from this slight depression, continue
unrave before you the development of Grecan intellect
The East battered the Phygan shore in its first and
hest conflict with Greece and represented by the Per
monarchy began to be alarmed at the preponderanee of
Grecan power The Liberties of the land of CecIops
threatened and development of intellect takes place
Pnda sends forth the surface of Greece his dyhyrambs
and ods Hschylu tile young spirit of freedom in
his patriotic dramas Herodqus prepares matches pen Of
history The spirit of the East breahes through Pndars
odes Pndar the minstrel of the past-danfu of the
new institutions of GTeecedarng the Asiatc poets
whom cng and devoted to tie principles OF the Dorians.
who favored the astoc,acy Eschylu on the contrary
rash spirit Of Asia added the republican, energy which cha
he wield its to knde up the hearts of his fellow
them of the king of conquered by
the republic and Of the pride OF indomabe freedom Of the
saney OF Grecan tradition and OF the majesty OF their early
"reminiscences. Henodous, who be termed the Homer
of history works the end by different Homer
sang of the first struggle of Greece with Asiaa struggle,
trifng in its principle, yet magnificent in its Developments