New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-05

| that elegant life of lettered ease which closed
| Pope's career IN the pretty villa on the thames
The poet well knew what precious memorials ne
| was preparing for pOserity. and he was not al all
averse TO putting them to press while he couid en-
| ioy the applause. lie schemed. and cheated ana
| told lies for years. that he might PRINT MS own
letters without being ridiculed for his vanity. He
hired scamps to steal them. He nstigated rascally
| booksellers to buy them. He caused surreph-
tousD editions to be put forth, only that he might
have an excuse TO print genuine" editions as If In
self defence He recalled his letters to Swift. when
Swift was in his decay. and having published them,
| then accused Swift OF breach of confidence and
propriety He complicated the series of rogneries
| and fasehoods with many ingenious tricks and
| forreries that bographers have been nearly hun
dred and fifty years Strengthening out the story
and il IS only within short time that his perfidy In
the matter of the Swift letters has been brought to
| light. Never perhaps did man of genus stoop so
low and so long for such trivial object Never did
skful trckster leave so many clews for his de-
te ction His latest bographcr. Mr.. Leslie Stephen
calls him "a and-tonouth har" He made the
most bewildeIing changes in the letters before he
! gave them TO the world. He falsfed dates and adj
dresses He LETT us uncertain when any particular
| missiye was written and for whom II was intended
| He used the genuine correspondence as the raw ma
| terial from which he made what he pleased. There
| is a striking instance of his lack OF literary con-
| science in the best of the letters printed by MI
Scoopes Its the one which contains the celebrated
description of the two lovers killed by lightning;
! Madam have been what never was till now
| in debt TO Won for letter some weeks. was III
formed YOU were at sea, and that twas to no puI-
pose TO write till news had been heard OF your
! arriving somewhere or other. Besides, have had
| second dangerous illness. from which was more
| gent to be recovered than from the hrst, nav
| ing some hopes OF seeing Yon AGAIN. II you
make any tour IN Italy. shall not easily forgive
| you for not acquaIntlhg me soon Ghoush 10 udNe
! met you there. ] am very certain can never ne
polite unless travel with You; ana IT Is never 10
be repaired, the loss that Homer mas sustained LOT
! want of my translating mm in ASIA. You Wall
come hither full of criticisms against man VINO
wanted nothing to be III the right but 10 nave kept
| Won company; you have no way OF making me
| amends but by continuing an ASldtIc Wncn you
! return 10 me. whatever English ans yon may pat on
to other people prodigiOuSly long Tor your son
nets your Remarks, your Oriental Learning but
| | long for nothing 30 much as yOnr Oriental sell
You must OF necessity he advanced 50 lar back INTO
true nature and simplicity of manners by these three
wears residence in the East that shall look upon
| YOU as 50 many years Younger than You was, so
innch nearer innocence THAT Is. truth md infancy
| that is opennessl ] expect 10 see your soul 30
| much thinner dressed rs yonr oOdy ami thatNou
have left Oft. As unwieldy and cumbersome, great
| many damned European habits without ohtnVe
to vOnr modeSty be II spoken. have a burning
desire to see your soul stark naked for am con
! fdcnt It's the prettiest kind of white soul IN The
universe. But forget whom am talking 10; you
may possibly by this time believe, according 10 ne
| Prophet that YOU have nonc II so, shew me that
| which comes next to a soul yOn may easily put
| if upon n poor ignorant Christian for soul, and
| please him we'll with IL Il mean your heart :
| MabOmet. ! think. allows you hearts Whlcn lto-
| qether with fine eyes and other agreeable equiya-
entsl are worth all the souls on tins side the WOrd
| But if | must be content with seeing your boay
only, God send 1t to come quickly honor u more
than the diamond caskct tha5 held Homers lliads;
for in the very twinkle of one eye OF 1T there Is
more wlt. and in the very dimple OF one cheek OF
il there is more meaning, than all the souls mat
| ever were casually put INTO women since men uad
| the making OF them. 80, ,
nave mind to fill the rest of this paper with an
accident that happened Just under my eyes. ana has
made a great impression upon me. have Just
passed part of this summer at on ola romahtc seat
of nv Lord lIarcOurts, which lie lent me-. 1T over
looks common field. where, under the shade OF
haycock sat two lovers, as constant as ever were
found in Romance, beneath spreading beech. he
name of the one uet 1T sound as III VIII was Johh
Hewet of the other. Sarah Drew. John was
wel-srt man about iive-and twenty, Sarah brown
woman of eighteen. John had for several months
borne the labor of the day in the same field with
Sarah when she MIXED. ii was his mornlng and
evening charge TO bring the cows to pail Their
gta ras the tok bnt not the scandal of the
whole neighborhood for all they aimed at was
the blameless possession of each other IN marriage
III was but this very morning that he had obtained
her parents consent, ana III was Du' tlli the next
week that they were TO wait to he happy. Per
haps this very day IN the intervals OF Their work;
John was matching several kinds OF p0ppies
and field flowers TO her complexion, to make her
present of knots for the day lille they were mus
employed lit on the last Of july, terrible
storm of thunder and lightning arose. that drove
the laborers TO what shelter the trees or hedges
Afforded. Sarah, frghted and out of breath, sunk
on a haycOck, and John twhO never separated from
herr safe by her side, having raked two or three
heaps together to secure her. immediately there
was heard so loud Il crack as if Heaven had burst
asunder The laborers. all sollcltous Tor each
others safety, cal led TO one another; those that
were nearest orr lovers, hearing no answer, stett
to the place where they lay they first saw little
smoke and after, this faithful pair-John, with one
arm about his Sarals neck and the other held
horf fam II,
They struck dead and already grown stlfi and
cold in this tender posture. There was no mark or
dscclorlng on their bodies only that sarah eve
brow was little singed. and small spot between
her breasts They were buried the lie St day III one
grave. in the parish of sJanton-iiarcourt, in Ok
fordshIre, where my Lord Harcourt, at my re-
quest has erected monument over them. OF the
following epiiaphs which made. the critics have
chosen the eodly one | like nelthCri but wish you
had been in England to have done this Office better
| think twas shat You could not have refused he
on moving al occasion.
When Eastern lovers feed the fun'ral Ere,
On the same pile their faithful Fair expire
Here plying Heav'n that virtue mutual found,
And blasted BOTH that il might neither wound.
Heats sincere, tn Almighty saw well pleased,
Sent his own lightning, aud the victims seized.
Think not. by rg'rous Judgment seizd,
pair so faithful could expire;
Victims so pure llcaV'n saw well peasd
And snatch'd them III celestial lire.
Live well, and fear no sudden fate:
When Cod calls Virtue to the grave,
Alike It's Justice. or late,
Mercy alike to kill or save
Virtue unm0vd can hear the call.
And face the fash that nelts the ball.
J-pon the whole, / can't think these people I'M
happy. The greatest happiness, next to living as
they would have DONE was TO die as they did The
greatest honor people Of this low degree could
have was to he remembered on little monument,
unless YOU will give them another that OF being
honored with tear from the finest eyes III the
world | know you have tenderness; yon must
have It il is the very emanatlon OF good s"nse and
virtue; the finest minds like the finest metals, dis
solve the easiest.
But when YOU rejecting upon objects of pity,
pray do not forget one, who had 10 sooner found
out an object of the highest esteem, than he was
separated from il and who Is So very unhappy AZ
lie OF snatlnn. from Othnrs by