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Bemuses retreat.
Lines ad defied to a beautiful young Lady,
a tvho had been a long time abjent on the con
| t/nent.
IHE morn was bright—the temped o’er,
The breeze blew lightly off (he iliorc,
V> lien Ca rclin£| her lily hand
Wav’d 2', (he left her native land,
Still with a tearful gaze, I mark,
Far ol? the beauty freighted bark,
Where mcitii'g from my aching view
She proudly rider the billows blue.
Now dtad appear:, eath well known feene,
The gkffy biook, the meadow green,
The daify’d lawn, the upland swell,
The (helt’ring tave, the mossy well ;
The rose hath loft her bluftiing bioom, I
The lily ihed her foft perfume ;
.And every shrub that decks the grove, ,
But tell* me of my ablent love,
Unheeded now the woodman’s song,
Ethoec the russet wilds among}
on (hej h' rJ, tenant of the plain,
Now (ills for me his flute in vain ;
Aye, heav’n ward may the ikylark float,
And scatter wide the mellow note;
The wien may pipe his merry lay,
Petch’J, vKtvhf , on the leafy spray. I
Oft, gentle maid, my guidclcfs feet
l’ace round at eve thy lav’rite feat;
Where late, the lily Iccnted gale
Would love to ieiter, arid inhale ■
The fwcets, that with a wifliful care,
Thine infant hand had planted there j
But now the thiftk’s armour’d head
Usurps the vi’Jet’s lowly bed.
• Can Mem’ry fail, my love, to trace
Yon lake’s cloud pictur'd, wavelefs face,
Where ott, along it; wifi .wy ihore,
For thee I’ve urg’d the plaihing oar?
Then was this atm with vig<ur strung;
No for row o’er this forehead hung;
And then thy fuft ben gnant smile, I j
Could charm aw’ay (he thought ol toil. | (
Yon oak, whose litmmer foliag’d arms,
Have (helier’d oft thy fairy charms;
Whete, iltetth’d beneath his ample boughs, I
Atfetficn urg’d her pious vows; .
Now in hit sombre mantle dreft, I (
And i obb’d of Spring’s umbrageous vest, I ]
Seems the partaker of my gtief, I;
And flieds around the wither’d leaf. I 1
Ah, Ca sot ini ! the foil’ring spring I j
Shall (’er the oak her vesture fling ; I j
Again (hall breathe hT genial power, I t
Expand the kaf, und paint the flower; I f
The zephyr (hall again unclofe I a
The embryo petals of the role; I ‘
But will it wait thee, C.uolin i,
To bicfs this heart, forever thine? j
I I
On Jlealing the body of a young Woman, to be I I
anatomized, from St. Peter's Church Yard, I
Oxou, 1745. |<
For fliame ! lor flume! Oxonians all,
And bluth to hear it laid,
“ Not pleaf’d to steal the girls alive,
But mu ft you steal them dead ?
Initiate nature thus direXs,
Nor is it strange, I own,
That those who love to taste the flelh,
Should like to pick the bone.
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ANECDOTES.
A gentleman having lent a guinea for I
two or three da\s to a person whose pro- j
mises he had not much faith in, was very I
much furprized to find, that he very punc- I
tually kept his word with him; the fame I
gentleman sometime after was desirous of
borrowing a larger sum. No, (said the
other,) you have deceived me once, and 1 am I
ufolvtd you jh all not do it a fecund time. i
Old Tafwell, the comedian, having a I
dispute in the green room with Mrs. Clive,
the aXrefc, “ Madam, (fays he,) I have
heard of tartars and brimstones, but by G—• I
you are the cream ol the one, and the flow- 1
ci of the other.”
An Irifli author desired his publiflier to I
take lodgings lor him ; the publiflier found
.m apartment in St. Paul’s Church Yard,
which bethought would perfectly fuithim I
Honest Paddy “ desired to know if he had I
Jeeu arty thing that would answer, and
w here it ?” “ In St Paul’s Church Yard,”
(replied the other.) “ Pftuw, (relumed j
Teague, what a prettv meflenger vou art
to lend on an expedition ; did you ever
hear of a man’s going to live in a church
yard tilt after Ire was dead.”
A gentleman, (peaking of those who
_imrr> pretty wives, said, that in fix months
• oeamiful woman become uglv to her
hulham*; and, w hat was worse, toe COnti
beautiful to others.
1 MUSEUM.
“ In the morning, behold it was Leah."
THIS, as Macbeth fays, infpeXing his
crimsoned hand in the play, was
“ a sorry fight” to the luckltfs Jacob.——
from the “ blear eyes” of an unexpeXed
bride, the gazing patriach could difeern
reflected no very charming profpeX of ma
trimonial felicity.
Without anticipating too form the re
flexions, or fancying the chagrin, of the
injured Jacob, it' is better to narrate cer
tain of his youthful bargains, deferibe his
I apprenticelhip, or rather vaflalage to Love,
and /ketch a piXure of the sanguine hopes,
J and abused credulity of a young man.
Jacob, the favourite son of a fond mo
ther, is advised by Rebekah, ttrrified at
the hatred and menaces of Esau, to flee
from the effeXs of fraternal resentment,
I and to iurk for a time in tiie obfeurity of
I Haran, a remote village, in the east, where
I he would not only find the fafe shelter of
I solitude, but the still more friendly cover
lof a relation's love. Haran was a sweet
I andpaftoral country, amidst whose clelici-
I ous landscapes he could lose, or at least
suspend the recolleXion of domestic mil
fortunes. Haran was the abode of Laban,
an uncle and a friend. If the terrors of
a brother’s vengeance were not loft amid
I the glories of nature and the charms of
I fvlvan life, they would be mitigated by the
| kindness, they might be braved by the
strength of a relative and i paftorai chrif
tian. Jacob, who had most unjuftifiably
defrauded Esau of his father’s benediXion,
was fufficiently alarmed for his own fafety
to difeern the correXnels of this reasoning.
He immediately commences his tour, ar
rives at his asylum, “ thfiland of the peo
ple of the east,” and finds him
felf among a company of shepherd;, busi
ed in watering tfleir flocks. This was the
very feene for a lo*e and it im
mediately octets. Inquiring of this Am
ple company with the friendly zeal, or,
perhaps, the rude curiosity of a Neweng
landman, where they belonged, &c. he is
infwered that they know Laban, that he
is in heath, and that “ behold Rachel, his
daughter, cometh with the flieep.” This
fair girl next appears; and, after certain
civilities and gallantries of Jacob, which
mark the honelty, simplicity and tender
ness of undebauched manners and pafto
rai times, he informs the damsel, with
whom he is fiuldeniy enamoured, of their
affinity ; and the youthful admirer of Ra-
L hal is announced to the son of Nahor. —
Laban haftenstomeet his fugitive nephew,
and, with apparent franknefs and cordiali
ty, brings him to his house. In a month,
Jacob becomes wholly domesticated in this
family. At length, this avaricious Jew,
in a spirit of speculation, not unworthy
of the present age, begins to drive an art
ful bargain with his unfufpeXirag inmate.
After insidiously hinting that the ties of
consanguinity ought not to induce him to
a gratuitous lervice. Laban demands his
price, and the generous and lovesick Twain,
replies “ your daughter.” It must here be
noted, that Laban had two daughters, and
that there was no small difference in their
personal attraXions, for “ Leah was tender
eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well fa
voured.” Now, I will not torment my
lelf, and puzzle my readers, with the dif
ferent and jarring explanation of grave
commentators, defining the epithet applied
to Leah. From the opposition of the
clauses, it is extremely clear that one of
the damfds was homely and the other ex
quisitely beautiful. Jacob chose like a
lover, and conchiXed like a very fond one.
He prefers Rachel, and stipulates fora sep
tennial servitude as the price of her father’s
consent, and her affeXion? : Laban replies
in a blunt and ’Squire Weftern style, that
it was better that Jacob fhoultl have her
than any body e!fe; and the contraX is
made. Notwithftancling the extreme length
of this period of amorous probation,"to
the captivated youth it seemed, in the
charming language of the original, but a
I tew days, for the love he had to her. A
modern lover would have been tired in se
ven days, but every vicissitude of fevun
years found Jacob’s heart the fame. Os
this prolix courtfliip the last day, a dav of
jubilee to Love, at length is numbered.
Jacob claims his* wife. Laban oftentati-
I oufly invites his neighbors, and the wed
-1 ding banquet and bridal couch are spread.
The knavery of Jacob's unworthy unde
I now appears. During tiie gaiety of r.up
-1 tial caroulals, when the head of'an ardent
I bridegroom would, in some degree, dance
I to the bounding of his heart, and in the
I obfeurity of noXurnal hours, a furreptiti-
I ous consort is treacheroufiv conveved to
I his apartment. The dawn reveals the
I 1 heat to insulted fondnels ; for, in the
1 morning—behold it was Leah.
‘‘ \e, w o listen with credulity to the
I whispers of Fancy, and perfue with eager -
I nets the phantoms of hope," learn to
I vour guard against the cheating Laban’s
I of life, and re'v not too implicitly on the
I expcXation of clasping the Rachel of vour
• I J°>' s - know not what a night, and the
j cunuing craftinefs cl ntau, may bring
forth. Seme unlucky accident may rush
between you and expected Btifs. Think
not, good easy men, when ye sleep and
dream of delight, that the powers of De
ception are nodding too. No; they are
broad awake, and, perhaps, maliciously
active. See, they are already busy detai.
ning your Rachel, and, in the morning,
ye mufl be doomed to disappointment, and
perceive nothing but a Leah lor your con
solation.
Thwarted passion is always like a dart
through the liver. But disappointments
in love are like a whole quiver. They
terribly lacerate the feeling heart. Os all
ths fufferers in this way, the hapltfs Jacob
I think was the greatest. Violently ena
moured with a lovely shepherdess, he has
not only to obtain the “ flow leave” of a
timid virgin, but mufl toil for the tardy
and remote consent of a miserly fire. To
this irksome and ignominious exaction Ja
cob submits. He “ fed the flieep, and
penned the fold,” and bartered severe la
bour for the smiles of love. He at length
refls from the toil of years, and is defraud
ed of the beauteous premium. '
We all know, from the context, how
well Jac ob behaved under this flinging dis
appointment. After a concise, but point
ed remonstrance to his uncle, he calms the ,
tumult of desire, and for the love of his
beirothed, promises Laban to set out, like
the fliepherd swain of Lycidas,
“ To-morrow to frefill fields and pafiures new.”
This is an excellent moral to be drawn
from the story ; and, if among my readers
any of the more ardent and unfufpicious
futfer from a Laban, and love like Jacob,
let them copy the resignation of a patient
man, and wait seven years longer for gra
tification, rather than be enraged, or de
jected for a month, or even a day.
The LAY PREACHER.
Brief Character of POPE, asa Trans
lator of HOMER.
FROM the time in which it firft ap
peared, “ that poetical wonder,” as
it has not improperly been called, the trans
lation of the Iliad by Pope, has been in
pofltflion of the public regard; and it
seems to be loosing no portion of it’s po
pularity as it proceeds further on its paflage
to futureages. Though its bright and pre
eminent merits have united avast majority
of fuffrages in its favour, a few diflenting
voices have been heard to jar in the crowd,
and to detract from the unanimity of the
applause. When the firft tumult of admi
ration, excited by its proud display of po
etic power, had in some mealure subsided,
it was represented by the indignant scholar
a9 unfaithful in it’s tranfeript, and as
conveying to the English reader an imper
fe£! or a falfe idea of the venerable father
of Grecian poetry. With that infufeep
tible firmnefs of rigorous criticism, which
is proof against the most controlling fafei
nation of poetry, our great translator has
been arraigned, and like a criminal dragged
tojuftice for every coarseness which he lias
artfully veiled; every simplicity, which he
has converted into elegance ; every unau
thorized epithet or allusion, which his glow
ing and pifturefque fancy has supplied ;
every grace and beauty, in short, which,
while they adorn the English, cannot dif
timftly be traced in their flow from the
Grecian Iliad. The attack has been re
peated at different periods, but,alway with
out effeft;
“ Arma Dei ad vulcania ventum
Mortalis mucro glacies ceu futiks i£lu
Diffiluit.”
and though an attempt has been made in
the present day to support this attack by a
more perfect and //owozV exhibition, in our
language, of the mighty ancient, the result
has still been unfavorable to the expefta
tipns of the adventurer ; and has only in
volved the poetic competitor of Pope in
the fame condemnation of neglect with
his critic. Firm in their attachment to
their old favorite, and feafting on the lux
uries of his page, the public have refufed
to quarrel with what pieafes them ; or to
accept of a treat, more correctly, it mufl
be confefied, after the Grecian model, but
not so accommodated to their palates.
Neither can their taste in this instance
be questioned, without hesitation or risk.
If the Iliad of Pope be not defenfible as an
exa& copy of that of Horner, the Engliih
poem mufl be acknowledged on the whole
to be an adequate representative of the Gre
cian. The resemblance, indeed, of his
original is presented to us by our translator,
not as reflected in a mirror, with every
mole, and wrinkle, and gray hair, made
obvious to the eye ; but as existing in a
mafterlv portrait, which, painted on the
grand principle of ideal conception, and
rejecting from it's draught the minuter
lines and peculiarities of the face, is illus
triously authentic with the great stamp of
countenance and character. In this trans
lation. we behold one poet maintaining an j
iatercourle of affluence with another;
gaining and yielding profit by a barter of
rare commodities ; and so conducting the
traffic as to leave the ballance, on the final
adjustment of the account, in a state of
doubtful equality.
Messrs. Randolph & Bukce,
Ey giving the following a place in your
next paper, you will much oblige a num.
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Columbia County , July 4, ’99.
The following toasts were drank by cap
tain N. Whitecumbe’s company, at the
hotife of John Shackleford, Esq. in order 1
to celebrate the Fourth of July.
1. The Stateof Georgia—May her chil
dren ever disdain to wear the chains of
despots.
2. May agriculture and commerce Aout
ifh in the Union, and our infant navy on
the ocean.
3. May our rulers of the Union ever be
vigilent, and never fuffer her right to be
infringed by the insidious intrigues of her
foreign enemies.
4. May theinvadersof American rights,
ever fail in.their attempts, and fall like
Lucifer never to rife again.
5. The virtuous and the brave—May
they by their merit, ever command the at
tention of a deserving republic.
6. The patriotic and brave General
Washington, our late President—May his
heroic attachments never be blotted from
our memories to the latest posterity.
7. President Adams—May he long con
tinueatthe helm of government, and com
mand that refpeft due to his exalted sta
tion.
8. The memory of our brave heroes
who fell in defence of American liberty—
May their bones and allies never be dis
quieted until the great day of Judgement,
when they ftiall receive their rewards.
9. May this great day which is held in
veneration by Americans, so endear our
hearts and Aveeten our conversation, that
none may give an offence, and that our
heliarity may be with that decorum which
will exhibit a bright example to our rifine
progeny.
10. May America ever continue at
peace with all nations upon honorable
terms.
xi. The memory of Columbus—May
his labors never be forgotten, or that he
firft explored this new world as a happy
affvlum for mankind.
12. May the officers of the state be ever
vigilent in supporting the laws thereof,
and the constitution of this and the United
States.
13. May Americans be endued with
that zeal for the welfare of her internal
policy, which like a band of, brothers may
bear down all opposition. £
14. The daughters of Columbia, may
they ever continue to be virtuous, and
may their exertions in economy be con
ducive to our happiness and their honor.
15. May unanimity in our supreme
council, and the confidence of our citizens
in their probity and wisdom, baffle all in
sidious and hostile machinations of foreign
or domestic enemies.
16. May the antipathy against tyrany
which firft peopled the United States be
ever lading.
17 May we never be so ungrateful to
our Great Benefactor as not to acknow
ledge ami thank him for all the inestima
ble blessings which we may enjoy.
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