The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-05-15

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the SAND time, truthful conception.
We would be se had We time, toretel
the reader, to nuns other selections, inproo
Of our author claim e Gle beautiful afs
true, ifreonception
LQngfelloN imagination luxurious.
His speech comic . Is n Intellectual eplea
reanism, and drops itself down upon Us, u
delioiousness TIeisthemostperfee
engraver, BY means Of speech, thatwc know.
Take for example the following from his Res
i ignation."
There is no flock, however watched and tended
But one dead lamb Is there
There is no freside howso'er defended,
Bat has one vacant ehairr
With respect to the artistic qualities Of his
style, We think him the greatest poet Of A
merica. BY artistic quality, We mean that
quality, which makes expression a picture Of
thought. We are aware that it is a matter
Of taste with persons, as to what kind Of ex-
pressions, constitute the best licensees Of the
thought represented. For oursclf, We con
fess to fondness for strength, truth, and beau
lty; and in this, we think we viii have the
concurrence of most persons making pretcn-
sions to taste. WewouIdnot award to Long
fellow fucncy, in the sense of a supcrabund-
ant yerbosity On the contrary we opine
that he is either, without avery great collec-
ton of words, or that he has learned topper
lection difficult lesson, that of selecting the
best, and of having nothing to do with the
word-rabble Any how, his productions give
no evidence, that he was troubled with lin
gual diarrhoea-ad disease of wide, yet We be-
I lieve harmless ono doubt owing to an accom-
panying constipation Of ideas) prevalence in
these days His mastery of expression, VIC
think ngularly perfect. In this he has evil
IDENTIFY undergone a thorough discipline. His
words seem to have been selected by him
with much care, and the wonder is, that in
cultiyating style 50 thoroughly, he should
have retained so much Of the soul Of poetry.
There is a liquid music in his verse, which
laps the soul into most luxurious cxtacy,
and we feel, as VIC listen, as if the ''prattle Of
some babe-lilse Jupiter were ringing along
the abysscs of our attentive souls. Take the
following selected from his Prelude" tits
description Of his position in the old woods
with their green boughs, and dark shadows,
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anu io% WINS VIC. ~ va s''i',''i0''e'4 ~
- lorth ana Efiie OF the things thai i've IN
The heart
Beneath some Patfiar'hai tree
n ray ,s., upon ,,. we 5 5,oo,1'
AndaIT me b-oal ,cav.so over me
Capped their Ii,,le hands in sIee,
With one continuous sound
s,n,,I,erop. sound, sog,a ,l.., ,,riprs
The feelings OF areao.-
~ Of im,un,erabIe wias-,
As, when 2 belt. 9tllAo our swings
on, o.. =, .0.,, l -, -,
Ihus stretched upon the granna' wan MS
eyes gazing
- into the summer sky,
Where the sailing clouds wen; hy'
Like '','S upon Inc sea-
lie tells US that
The gree" trees whispered 10" and villa;
- Twas a=o'.'d oi joyi
AnIroeEed me in in their heir, arm. :. % Ma!
Sill they looked at me and smiled,
As if were boy.''
They are then reDrescpted rs c,llino hin, b,cl,
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everlasting child? The visions of his child
hood come back to hin, like
o,r r.a;,rs 81 -. s.,,,.,..,
Dropping on the ripened grain
Ard 10 oss.rs oro4.;n H.. -.
o. and .,I;stont ,.,;s,..s,.,:.3t: - r. ):
mo moro chill" tba4 H. own bos-t ,, -
boncofortb bo Ms .lan5 of s., -,
tho c,te tboroto~.bal,. tborob. s ), .ts.,..,.
sbininr down mo-, ,,,sa,, - -. -, ;,
ond - I'D r.. - .'-I f,''e'
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