Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-06-17

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Why, man. thine should be as l'egasns,
And scattering ali the Pleiads his heels
| Thy cart should be an orienttinted car,
Such as Aurora drives Into tile day, iq5t51t
NJ, mhat time the rosyifingercd HoHss awake = 4
SAscno.
Look ye, master, busted letter iacie than yors
before now, yoahad best Keep civil iongus ia your
mead Once for all, will you buy MY radistes2 b ~
AfoLLoDoRus,
SANcmo.
Thengo to the devil aud shake'yoursclfi
riss P@sss.sssss APoLLopoRus...s i
i The foul fend sieze thye and Thy cauiaowcrsi
10 lake tSis l1b bsft eiSd fsiS for ls bar
A eas,ep .st dsI s 1s gSe
gs mi,I %s i1 t ssa ST s
do beseech thee, send appel down.
ash ,iin s as ssSSas zen as meteor RUS
LIZ g crashed 5ythe stt Of NE SoRvof Hayerillo
We earnestly hone that ,Ha,veril crushed him.
before The victim gotvety far into that edittan of
| The English poets which the Apnletons Of N.York
have employed him 10 edit 2 An edition of, tile
English poets edited by George 6ilfilan would be
the utmost reach of absurlity.3 Lessing's famous
criticism would 6eSthe very thing for il. s.Whnt
would be good IN It would not be new, and That
winch wouldshe new would not be good.p We
are earnest, therefore,. in ahoping that Haryerilo
was hurled from the pillar in time 10 save us from
lle lnhiction OF an edition of The English poets,
edited by George Gilfan. sAnd il. il thus turns
oas, we shall Join the final chorus Of the traseyn
pralslng Firmiliian for thai glorius deed of what
heshoped world be the acme Of atrocity. TO that
choral chanrwe now address ourseif
Alter The lare.nps OF Fafmillio1 with his three
loves, Mariana, Lillian, and: lndiafa, the latter
negfess, whose "blltUer lips, excited lie ndig-
nation OF Lillian, Firmllihn has TO ma re a. race
against time. Mariana, brother servest tile King,
and shenromisess Eirhilan That he shall hear OF
ms conaact;SLiian adds to the horrors by inform;
rug Inc embryo Aormo thai her unplesi chief in
L A . 10 eaV
sAnd he shall hear of this curew tolls. "a
The management of Fiflilllaiiss flight is plume
IN the cap of the author OF HE tras edy. as he
hies. chorussof Lgausi1 atui attend hima re-
hesrse his criines.s Fmst they tell him OF The muir
der Of, blind maii-then OF the lIosOning of al
phons and Alonzo, with tile wine of tldslonso -
1 then tile chorus chant: - -
IL s'rhs muses. sing in their charmed ring,
tn3 And Apollo Sveeiis for him who sleeps,
anaI,,a h hssd ma stormy pill w--
But Immediately they add:
"Give him some respite, give him some prise,
i Ohe good deed he las done IN his daysi
| t;heut y and sing il and tell IL in CHORUS, IS
1 he has fiat;ehId the coxcomb Ol ApOlioiorus"
/ Tile chorus is unfortunately ignorant, being in
Ibenghted SPAN. % one means of publicity of
mllian's redeeinng deed, worth NH the others
They ihvoked-the Louisville Journal. Firmil!
han Inns reached his opotiieosis. We Negotiated
Gtihliian for his hbomnibie profanity in his work
enti,ed "fle Bards.of the Bibie,' and we rejoice
that he was sandiilg under tile pillar of ST. 81.
mon olyliteSy W he'll tnrInlillnHs hurled HLyeIIo
i from The top ofsthe saints stand. n is
~ In the hope that our readers may turn to Black
Ewood's implement of the asraslnUdic school o
Ipoeis,3 @sa present them lasts of the closing
Judgment upon that gentleman IN .sKental Green"
1-thei INA inaryf MIR. Jones. Bldckwood says: s
IL IS rdther dificultto give a seIiousnpin Nh.
on the merits Of such production as tins II is
course, terry extrayagant; but 50 are the whole
lotttfei writings ofsthe poets of the Spasniodic
school, and. IN the eyes of a considerable body Of
/ llOueTu CIltlce. eNtTlyayAnnt. * al
proof Of extraordinary genous. II u.s. re and
there, highly coIored bnt thai also is looked upoI
MS symptom OF the divine afntus, and rather prz-
cd tlan Otherwise In one point t,f, procIaim.I
sPasnoiic excellence perhaps itffalis iiaYon can
always Tell what Perfy Jones Is AFTER even " hen
i he is dealing with s'SbuddeIing starsn .tpilbous
moons, "lmpbsthemes of llell,'I and the like;
where's you may read through twenty pages of
lie more ordinary stuff without beng able 10 dis
cerii what the writer's mean--nnd no wonder for
they really mean notlllilg They are simply writing
nonsense, verses; but they contrive, by blazing
Enwoy Whole rounds OF metaphor to mask their nh
jsolute poverty of thought, and to convey the i'm
PRESTON that there must be something stupendous
under SO heavy canopy of smoke. II, therefore,
uhipleliigiLility, which is the highest degree OF
obscufiiy, is TO be considered motto excelience
we are afraid that Jones inust yield the palm 10
several oil his contemporaries; il, oil the contrary
perspeuityls 10 be regarded n virtue we do not
| hesitate IN assigning the spaspodic prize to the
/ authoto Of Erni'liHu.
| II Blackwood repeats many such blows ns this
we think the "spnsmodic SCHOOL, will soon he
converted ito ''slludlerlng STATS" The wtiter
must be amused with The sensaiionshe has pIo-
duced. His "lntense'' scenes are unfivalled, and
ms snbiimltiss have rarely been capitalized. When
Deaf Swll published his travels OF Lemuel Gul.
lver, he was highly gratifed at some of the evl-
dences he receisedof<t the perfection oil his hoax
Arbuuhpot reported 10 him the case of a Jistin-
gulshed clergyman W no declared Tint "there were
| thinss in the book he could not Griug iulsef 10
! believes" A tsenfaring man was inclined to be-
/ iieyethe travel because he had known CULVER
4 as sailor. His soc difficulty was caused by the
aet That the CULVER he knew was of Rptheflite,
while the distinguished traveller to Liliiput Brob-
! dignag, Laputa, &c, hailed from Wrapping. In,
perl 81 keeping with these examples is the case Of
go country editor IN Eagland Who expresses some
surprise that Blackwooa should afford SO much
space 10 the trashof y. Percy JoneSt ~
| THE ISLE AND STAR. 3
| .ss45. Br GEO, n fRENr,cE.
| tire tropical seas
There's a. beautiful isle, r. ~ u
| Where storms never daTken II ~ 'th-f'l :
| The sunlight's soft smile. stief
There the hymn OF the breeze = t4 tff-
| And the hymn of the
Are G'ihgledinoue, s - E -
Like sweet sounds In "a dream.
| There the sotg birds at morn,
| Froiil the thick shadows start,
Like musical thoughts - - .ts-'f-tt
l y w. = From the poets FILL hear sssl ris,4s
/ There the song birds at loons sstysa
Il .,St III silence dnbfoken, - 49,
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