The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-09-20

A limheck only. When in the swinish sleep
Their drenchel natures lie, as in death,
What, cannot Won and ! perform upon
The nnguarded Duncan? What not put npon
His spungy officers; who shall bear the guilt
OF our great quell"
Precisely in this spirit does Jezebel adj
dress Ahab:-"Dost thou now govern
the kingdom of Israel! Arise, and eat
bread, and let thine heart be merry.
will give thee the vineyard of Naboth
the JeZreelite. So she wrote letters in
Ahab's name, and sealed them with his
SEAL and sent the letters unto the elders,
and to the noblest that were ir the city.
dwelling with Naboth; and she wrote in
the letters, saying Proclaim fast, and
set Naboth on high among the people,
and set two men, sons of Belial, before
him, and bear witness against him, say
ing, Thou ddSt blaspheme God and the
king: and then carry him out and stone
him, that he may die" The two mon
archs resemble each other in their clo-
sing scenes. As dangers increase, and
the hope of repulsing his enemies dimin-
ishes, Macbeth clings with desperate faith
to the words Of those who "paltered
with him in double and Ahab.
seduced by false prophets, goes up
against Ramoth- Gilead, where destruc-
ton awaits him. The frenzy with
which the former receives the messen-
gers who bring tidings of the rnemy's
approach, corresponds with the hatred
the latter expresses for Mlcaiah, the true
prophet, "who did not prophecy good
concerning him, but evil.' Ahab and
Macbeth resemble each other also in the
brave spirit which flashes forth lust be-
fore the end o! life; last ray Of kingli-
ness in one, and burst of old knightlv
feeling in the other.
Macb. I'll not yield
To kiss the ground before Young Malcom's feet
And 10 be baited by the rabbes curse,
Though Birnan wood be come to Dunsnane,
And though opposed, being Of no woman born,
Yet will try the last.
And Ahab said to has chariot-man.
Turn thine hand, that thou mavest car
rv me out of the host, for am wounded.
And the battle increased that dav, how
belt the king of Israel STAYED himself
up in his chariot against the Svrians till
the evening; and about the time of the
sun-setting, he died" Their queens al
so die in resembling spirit: one having
"painted her face and tired her head"
is killed with scotl!ng on her lips; the
other expires without one "compunctu.
Gus visiting" which might prove that
at last awoke remorse.
Lord Byron's desert prive apostrophe
to Rome, as "the Niobe Of nations
"childlcss and crownIess in her voice
less Woe ga marblewildrsness," and
lion" mother of dead empires" this is,
in its primary idea of decayed king
dom personifed as "a woman rorsaken
and grieved in spirit,' but an eloquent
of the opening Of Lamenta-
tons: "iow doth the city sit solitary,
that was full of people how is she be-
come as widow! she that was great
among nations, and princess among the
provinces, how is she become tribu tary!
she weepeth sore in the night, and her
tears are on her cheeks: among all her
lovers, she hath none to comfort her;
all her friends have dealt treacherously
with her: they are become her enemies"
Again. | know YOU greatly admire
he same poets "Ode to Napoleon"
Do so; but admir-" also Isaiah's Ode to
The fail Of Sennacherib, the Napoleon of
Babylon; and observe, too, that indie
pendent of general resemblance
throughout in point Of structure, Lord
Byron's first and finest stanza is alto
5ether derived from the prophet.
'''Tis past--but yesterday king
And armed with kings to strive,
And now, thou art n namelsss thing;
SO abjcct, yet alive!
Is this the man of thousand thrones,
Who strewed our earth with hostile bones,
And can he thus survive?
Since he, mlscalled the murning star,
Nor man nor fend hath fallen so far"
"He who smote the people in wrath
with continual stroke is prosecuted,
and none hindereth. How art thou fall
len from heaven, o Lucifer, son of the
morning: how art thou cut down to the
ground, which did weaken nations
They that see thee shall narrowly look
lpon thee, and consider thee, saying, is
his the man that made the earth to
remble; that did shake kingdoms; that
made the world as wilderness Z"
The chariot of Carmala, in Southey's
'kehama," willremind you of Ezekiers
sublime vision of the wheels and cheru-
Dim; and the "winged-hands, armless
md bodiless," which bear the magic
globe into the cave of Lorinite, will al
20 remind yon ofthe hand which brought |
he roll of a book to the prophet, and of
he hands which he discerned beneath |
he wings of the cherubim. |
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