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With here and there a lively spot of green,
Like winter mingling with the bloom of May.
Yet to fair plains-to courts luxurious gay,

Did thy sage chief prefer those barren hills;

Of life for thee despising all the ills,
Full twenty years a wanderer did he stray,
For thee the sage's blood oft flowed in crimson
rills.

See yonder pile, torn by the tooth of timet,
In moss-grown fragments scattered all
around;

Oft did those walls to many a theme sub-
lime-

To matchless eloquence and verse resound: In moral maxims, all his maxims drew; 'Twas thence the sage philosopher, profound

Thence keen-eyed science look'd fair nature round, In all her ways, with microscopic view; There warriors learnt to fight and be victorious too.

Yon

other ruin, crumbling into dust,

The pride of architecture rose, august,—
Where spotless chastity once found a home,

The arch-the column-and the gorgeous
dome ;

There pensive Penelope plied the loom
All day, and sad the tedious task unwove,

A blest example of unaltered love!
When sable night enveloped all in gloom,-
Not all the youth of Greece her steady faith

could move.

Deep in the bosom of that woody glen,

Of

rosy spring, or, from her hollow den,
Where echo whispers to the passing breeze
Roars to the blast that bends the groaning

trees;

Where once the bath, for elegance and ease,

stead of being terrifically grand, was genuine sense of the public, they will impotent and ineffective. She dis- soon find that they are grievously misplayed but little energy when search taken. We are afraid that the old adage, ing for her husband, imagining that her Dying men catch at straws,' has been father conceals him, and the shriek of verified; something certainly was agony when she fancies she beholds his wanting to uphold the falling fortunes spirit and that of Pierre, and follows of this concern, and they, therefore, them to the ground, had not any of the seized upon the first seasonable opporeffect of her great predecessor. Havtunity that presented itself. We are ing now mentioned the points of cha persuaded, that if Miss Dance had deracter in which she failed, it would be layed her appearance till another seaunjust, as well as illiberal, not to enu- son, the managers would have found nerate some of the beauties. In the their account in it. Unremitting apscene where Jaffier yields her as the plication is what she requires; we do pledge of his fidelity, to the conspira- not wish to discourage her; let her tors, she gave a very affecting picture of follow implicitly the instructions of conjugal affection, rendered half frantic her able preceptor,-let her powers beby the supposed unkindness of her come matured, and her style improved husband, and the horror of their part- by judicious cultivation, and she may, ing. Instead of whining, or, like some in a few years, sustain the weighty ho actresses, roaring out, "remember nours of Melpomene with dignity as twelve,' she dropped a feeble farewell, well as elegance. W. H. PARRY. barely audible, but more expressive P. S. After expressing ourselves than if it had been thundered forth; much disappointed with Miss Dance's and, in a half-smothered voice, utter-performance of Belvidera, we feel haped,' Remember-twelve.' The scene py in being able to affirm, with truth, in which Jaffier threatens to stab her, that her Juliet possessed considerable displayed much excellence, and the claims to public admiration. Still it manner in which she threw her arms was not the Juliet we of late years have round his neck, and exclaimed, Now, been accustomed to witness; superior then, kill me, while thus I cling about as it was to Belvidera, we cannot pro-Surrounded with fair seats of swardy green, thy cruel neck,' &c. were admirable.nounce it a Perhaps Miss Dance did not meet with Dance pleased us much in the garden chef-d'œuvre. Miss much support in the character of Pierre, scene, and in many instances she was on the first night, when we witnessed highly successful. The sportive and the representation of Mr. Macready, apparently half-ashamed accent with Bpova,] near the entrance of the port of Itha+ At a little village called Mavronà, [Mawho performed the character very little which, after recalling Romeo, she said, ca, are seen the ruins of a building, which to our satisfaction; and, on a subsequent I have forgot why I did call thee seems to have been constructed without the evening, we had the mortification of back,' was nature itself. The chief help of mortar, the stones being dovetailed in a seeing Mr. Abbott, who, though a de- fault of her Juliet was the want of that mer, in the reign of a sage, descendant of Ulyspeculiar manner. Here they relate, that Hoserving performer, to say the truth, engaging softness which forms the ses, who is the real owner of the character atmade a miserable conspirator. To the principal feature of the character. Intributed to that hero in the Odyssey, &c. honour of Mr. C. Kemble be it said, the scene with the Nurse, she was much that notwithstanding the disadvantage too romping and boisterous, but her of an indifferent Belvidera, and a bad despair on learning her husband's Pierre, he performed the character of doom, and the review of the dangers Jaffier with unexampled excellence, which may attend her swallowing the in the relation of Renault's conduct to contents of the phial given her by the his wife, he drew down torrents of ap- Friar, as well as her death, were all plause; indeed, his performance of the finely performed.-Upon the whole, character throughout was perfect; and, we consider it a very far superior efalthough this is not, perhaps, the place fort to her Belvidera, inferior, however, for making the remark, we cannot re- to her Mrs. Haller; indeed, we much frain from observing, that his Stranger fear that this lady has not sufficient tawas exceedingly improved since our no-lent to maintain her present rank in the tice of it in our review of this gentle-theatre. man's performances. Indeed, we think it scarcely possible that the character could ever have been more finely played: decidedly, no performer, now on the stage could do it so much justice. We will offer a word or two more before we conclude this subject,-if the managers imagine that the applause which

W. H. P.

Original Poetry.

STANZAS

Written on the Top of Mount Neius, in the
Island of Ithaca.

HAIL! rugged isle, whose sun-scorched hills

are seen,

Heaving abrupt their heads of hoary grey,

The lonely Arethusa, Naiad Queen §,
Stately arose, the wondering stranger sees

* Ulysses.

taught poetry, elocution, philosophy, and the all parts of Greece; hence the place is still art of war, and was followed by disciples from called Homer's School.

That he had been at Ithaca previous to hav

ing written his poems, admits of no doubt; for

a

place he had never seen, as are to be found in no one could give such striking descriptions of his writings of this island.

miles south-east of the town of Ithaca, supposed to have been one of the residences of the kings of that and the adjacent islands.

Paleo Kastro, an extensive ruin some

dress, this fountain and its surrounding scenery To the admirer of nature in her wildest will afford the highest pleasure. Arethusa is embosomed by a most romantic woody valley, accessible only by one steep and dangerous foot-path.

The water issues from an aperture in the rock, and is received into a bason, hewn by and about four feet deep. This bason is comart, about six feet long, four and-a-half wide, pleted by a front wall, built of stone and mortar, but which the petrifying quality of the water has completely consolidated. In the hottest summer weather it discharges about five gal

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Can this be Greece, the mighty and the brave?
Can this be Greece, renowned in arts and
arms?

Can this be Greece, this pale dejected slave,
Whose torpid breast no ray divine informs?
Yes, this is Greece divest of all her charms-
This drooping captive, manacled and bound;
With heaving breast and supplicating arms,
Behold for aid, she wildly looks around,
But where, alas! for Greece, is succour to be
found!

Say,-ye who ponder on her abject state,

See what she is, and think of what she was,What over-powering evil could beget

Of this effect, this dire effect, the cause?
What levelled her proud cities and her laws?
Who tore the laurel from her martial brow?
Who bade fair Science and the Muses pause,
Leave bright Pieria and high Pindus' brow,
To give in climes remote their sweetest
strains to flow.

'Twas Luxury, chief bane of social good,
Who steals his honour from the patriot's

breast,

That parent of a foul and noxious brood
Of evils, worse than earthquakes, fire, and

pest.

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same private manner in which she en tered the theatre.

COVENT GARDEN.-We suspect, that the managers of this theatre have, at last, found out the precise line for

Thus speak the doom of empires as they Miss Dance's talents, that of genteel

rise

Rejoice awhile, for by a certain date
Your greatness withers, and your glory dies?"
Ah! is it so? and must the curious eyes

Of strangers yet behold Britannia low?
Must she, whose fame o'er earth and ocean flies,
To some new Goth or some new Vandal

bow?

And must her sons be doomed to slavery and

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DRURY LANE.-We are not aware of any novelty at this theatre during the week, except that, on Monday evening, it was very unexpectedly honoured with Both Mr. a visit from the Queen. Elliston and the audience were quite unprepared; and her majesty, who, on entering, took her seat in the box immediately opposite to the king's, was some time in the house before she was recognized. As soon, however, as the audience understood she was present, a simultaneous burst of apAnd be by Ignorance and Vice debased-de-plause was heard from all parts of the

'Twas she bade cruelty infuriate burn

In the darksome breast of Tyranny;
Twas she made man so base as not to scorn
Before a fellow man to bow the knee;
'Twas she made men, by nature born free,
Become the slaves of superstition wild;
And, led by Falsehood and Hypocrisy,
In labyrinths of error stray beguiled,

filed.

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Then Murder bathed his wheels in tepid gore,
And the fair pages of the world's record

theatre, and cries of God save the
Queen,' were reiterated with vehement
vociferation. The singers were not in
attendance, and two acts of Lord By-
ron's tragedy passed off in dumb show,
when Mr. Elliston came forward, to
know the pleasure of the audience,
which, on learning, he promised that
the national anthem should be sung at

Were blotted with the names of vassal, slave, the end of the tragedy. He certainly

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comedy. The character of Lady Townley, in the comedy of the Provoked Husband, in which she appeared for the first time, on Friday night, is by far her best effort; she was lively and dignified, and avoided the common fault of confounding the air and fascinations of a woman of rank, with coquetry or affectation. In the comic scenes she was all life, and in those of tenderness, at the close, she was extremely affecting. Mr. Charles Kemble was a fine representative of Lord Townley, and Abbott made much of Manly. Fawcett was quite wrongheaded in Sir Francis Wronghead, whom he disgraced, by bad English and provincial barbarism, to a wanton

excess.

The play was received with much applause, and has been repeated. Shakespeare's Tempest, which has been altered by Davenant, Dryden, and John Kemble, has been doomed to new mutilations and transformations, by more ignoble hands. It has been, according to the prevailing vice of the age, operatized, by the introduction of some old music. Mr. Macready was a good Prospero, but we have seen a better; Miss Foote, a beautiful Ariel, with an indifferent voice; Miss Ste. phens and Miss Hallande, enchanting in Dorinda and Miranda; and Emery, Farren, and Blanchard, all that could be wished, in Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo. The scenery is

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ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.-Amidst all the competition of amusements, Mathews holds on the even tenor of his way,' and neither fails in spirit nor attraction through the frequent repetition of his adventures.

MINOR THEATRES.-Novelty is the order of the day at the minor theatres, particularly the Surrey and Sadler's Wells, where, at least, one new and kept his word, but so motley a group attractive piece has been produced were surely never before assembled. weekly since the commencement of the season. At the Coburg, Il Diavolo The Doge of Venice, whose head was supposed to have been separated from Antonio; and at Astley's, the Equeshis body, was seen joining Don Gio-trian Troop, have their share of attrac vanni (ready dressed for the afterpiece) in singing' God save the Queen,' while the lovely Angiolina mixed with a group of imps in the general chorus. Her Majesty, who looked extremely well, after waiting to see one or two scenes of the afterpiece, retired in the

tion; while at the European Saloon, (now called the New Theatre,) Miss Macauley, by her tragic and comic powers, and M. Alexandre, by his extraordinary ventriloquial talents, alternately draw fashionable audiences.

Literature and Science.

The Bee.

Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia limant,
Omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta."
LUCRETIUS.

[From the Percy Anecdotes.]

ters of science, and some exercised their wit in poetical translations and epigrams; his feelings as an author, did not probably but these, however much they might hurt but these, however much they might hurt make him suffer as a man, so much as those who censured him for the frequent heresy of his sentiments, and the indecency of not a few of his narratives. Nor is it surprising that he should have felt irritated, and vexed, and mortified, that such a reception should be given to a work, of which he thought he might be proud, and from which he drew so great an emolument (£6000). But no respect for the services he had before rendered to religion or virtue, by his papers in the Adventurer, and his Notes to Swift's Letters, could obliterate the impression of his apostacy in the remarks which he introduced into the account of the Voyage Round the World ; and it could not but aggravate the pain which both his friends and himself felt, when they considered, that whatever was objectionable in this work, had come from his pen without provocation, and without necessity, either from the nature of the undertaking, or the expectation of the public.

which, however, possessed none of the attacked it in the newspapers and maga characteristic properties of the hop.zines; some pointed out blunders in matFrench Bibliography. A mong Dr. Ives next endeavoured to ascertain other periodical publications, there is the quantity afforded by a given one at Paris, bearing the name of Bi-weight of hops: 6lbs. of hops, from bliography of France.' About fifty the centre of a bag, were put into a numbers appear annually, composing a light bag, and by threshing, rubbing, volume of from 800 to 1000 pages. and sifting, fourteen ounces of lupulin This work exhibits a list of all the were separated. Two barrels of beer printed works and re-impressions were then made, in which nine ounces throughout the French territory. of lupulin were substituted for 5lbs. Once a week, there appears a number, (the ordinary quantity) of hops, and of sixteen pages more or less. the result confirmed every expectation. Every publication, whether printed at Paris or in the departments, is noticed instantly after its appearance. Works of minor, as well as of the greatest importance, are announced alike. The number of bookselling articles announced in 1820, was near five thousand. The editor, M. Beuchot, well known as a biographer of extensive erudition, for the purpose of facilitating researches, adds, at the end of every year, three supplementary numbers, an alphabetical table of works, an alphabetical table of authors, and a systematic or methodical table, in which all the works announced through the year are arranged according to their kinds or subject matter. The journal contains, likewise, more copious information than any other, relative to engravings, geographical charts, and music. Under the title of Varieties, M. Beuchot furnishes, from time to time, notices of French works printed abroad, and translations of French works into foreign languages, foreign publications treating of France or the French, with bibliographical notices respecting books and editions. Under the head Necrology, the death of French authors is announced, mostly accompanied with the date; and a list

of all such of their works as have come to his knowledge.

Hops.-Dr. A. W. Ives, of New York, has lately made experiments on the hop, which prove that its characteristic properties reside in a substance forming not more than one-sixth part of the weight of the hop, and easily separable from it. It was observed, that on removing some hops from a bag in which they had been preserved for three years, an impalpable yellow pow der was left behind, which, when sifted, appeared quite pure; this lias been called lupulin; it is quite peculiar to the female plant, and is probably secreted in the nectaria. Hops from which all the lupulin had been sepa rated, when acted upon by water, alcohol, &c. gave a portion of extract

< Criticism. The late Mr. Cumberland used to say, that authors must not be thin-skinned, but shelled like the rhinoceros. The injunction would have been good, were the shell of their own making; but it would be hard were the linnet, or the nightingale, to cease from warbling, because they cannot sing in a storm.

The art of literary condemnation, as it may be practised by men of wit and arrogance, is much less difficult than criminal. A worthless book produces no great evil in literature; it dies soon, and naturally; but that undue severity of criticism, which lessens by one page the contributions of genius to the cause of human improvement, is a serious and great calamity.

Tasso had a vast and prolific imagination, accompanied with an excessively hypochondriacal temperament. The composition of his immortal epic, by giving scope to the boldest flights, and calling into effect the energies of his exalted and enthusiastic genius, whilst with equal ar dour it led him to entertain hopes of immediate and extensive fame, laid most probably the foundation of his succeedThe elegant author of the Calamities ing derangement. His susceptibility and of Authors, asks, "who are the authors tenderness of feeling were great; and marked out for such attack?" "Scarce when his sublime work met with unexly," he says, " one of the race of scrib-pected opposition, and was even treated blers; for wit will not lose one silver shaft on game; which struck, no one would take up. It must level at the historian, whose novel researches throw a light on the depths of antiquity; on the gination, perishes, if that solve avenue to poet, who, addressing himself to the ima

with contempt and derision, the fortitude. of the poet was not proof against the keen sense of disappointment. He twice attempted to please his ignorant and malignant critics, by recomposing his poem; irritation attending these efforts, the viand, during the hurry, the anguish and gour of a great mind was entirely exSuch are the class of authors, who are hausted, and in two years after the publi the chief objects of this sort of criticism, cation of his "Gerusalemme Liberata," which has sent some nervous authors to the unhappy bard became an object of their graves, and embittered the exist-pity and of terror. ence of many whose talents we all regard.

the heart be closed on him."

Tasso was driven mad by it; and even
HAWKESWORTH died of criticism;
the calm NEWTON kept hold of life only
by the sufferance of a friend, who with-
held a criticism on his chronology, for no
other reason, but his conviction, that if
published while he was alive, it would put
an end to him.

NEWTON, with all his philosophy, was so sensible to critical remarks, that Whis had enjoyed for twenty years, for contraton tells us, he lost his favour, which he dicting Newton in his old age; for no man was of "a more fearful temper." Whiston declares, that he would not have thought proper to have published his work against Newton's Chronology in his lifetime, because I knew his temper so HAWKESWORTH, says Dr. Kippis, in well, that I should have expected it would his biography of Captain Cook, was "in- have killed him; as Dr. Bentley, Bishop vited to write the account of the late Voy- Stillingfleet's chaplain, told me, that he ages to the South Seas, a fatal undertak-believed Mr. Locke's thorough confutaing, and which, in its consequences, de- tion of the bishop's metaphysics about the prived him of peace of mind, and of life Trinity, hastened his end.""" itself." An innumerable host of enemies

'Dr. Johnson.-Soon after the publica

tion of the Life of Savage, which was anonymous, Mr. Walter Harte, dining with Mr. Cave, the projector of the Gentleman's Magazine, at St. John's Gate, took occasion to speak very handsomely of the work. The next time Cave met Harte, he told him that he had made a man very happy the other day at his house, by the encomiums he bestowed on the author of Savage's Life." How could that be?" says Harte; “none were present but you and I." Cave replied, "You might observe I sent a plate of victuals behind the screen. There skulked the biographer, one Johnson, whose dress was so shabby, that he durst not make his appearance. He over-heard our conversation; and your applauding his performance, delighted him exceedingly.'

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with an interesting anecdote of Ariosto The anthor says,―

premise that he is a modest unassuming writer, who appears to have been Recollections of a Classical contented with relating what he ac- "I have often been surprised to find the through various Parts of Greece, tually saw, and not trespassing on the name of Orlando or Rolando, so frequentTurkey, and Italy, made in the Years regions of romance, in which travellers ly attached to ruins in Italy and the neigh1818 and 1819. By Peter Edmund have, in all ages, been notorious poach-bouring countries: Castello di Orlando Laurent. Illustrated with coloured. ers. The work, though not divided is a name given near Naples and in Maginto letters, is in the style of epistolary towers which, in former times, served as na Grecia, to almost every one of the plates. 4to. pp. 317. London, 1821. GREECE and Italy, at least, if not Tur-composition, and is written with great fastnesses for those bands of robbers which key, have been as much travelled as ease and freedom. It is also (and as ravaged the country, and bade defiance, almost any part of the globe, while reviewers, we are, in duty bound, to even to Spanish despotism. This may be more has been written on them than all thank him,) so divided, according to accounted for by the great diffusion of the other paris united; but, notwithdifferent places visited, that we can Ariosto's poem, the nature and variety of standing this, they still present a rich very easily detach a few extracts, which which render it, perhaps, more attractive variety to the judicious and intelligent author's talents, and of the interest the this it is well known the poet had a cons will enable our readers to judge of the than any other to the lower orders. Of bers, they were on the point of taking vincing proof: falling, during a ramble over the Appenines, among a band of rob from him his purse, and, perhaps, his life; but having recognised in him the auther of Orlando, they threw themselves at his feet, intreated pardon for their intended injury, and, singing his verses, guarded him to a place of greater security."

account of

traveller. Our pages have frequently
been enriched with the itiniraries of tour-Trieste, we have the following notice of
work possesses. In an
ists in Greece and Italy, and we now, the murder of the venerable Winckel-
with pleasure, add Mr. Laurent to the
number, for, although he follows with
rather unequal steps, he is worthy of
being ranked among them.

mann:

It was at Trieste that Winckelmann was assassinated by a villain named Arcangeli. This man had been a cook in the house of the Count Cataldo, at Vienna, and had been condemned to death for several crimes, but had received his pardon; he met his victim on the road from Vienna to Rome, and gained his confidence by affecting to have a great love

present, will be in the form of detached As our remaining extracts, for the anecdotes, rather than as a connected narrative, we shall briefly observe that,

on a careful examination of the whole interesting, containing much real and work, we can pronounce it to be highly valuable information, and avoiding every thing like prosing or trivial detail. Of this we hope to convince our readers, and now to the proof:

From the preface, we learn, that Mr. Laurent left Oxford in 1818, in company with two members of the University. They passed over the Alps, by the Mount Cenis road, crossing Piedmont and the fertile valley of for the fine arts. Winckelmann was ocLombardy, through the towns of Turin, Milan, Mantua, Verona, Vicenza, notes for a new edition of his History of cupied in a room of his inn, writing some and Venice. From the last place they Art, when Arcangeli interrupted him by proceeded to Trieste, where, after mak- asking him to see some medals; hardly ing an excursion to the rains of Pola, had the antiquary opened the trunk which they embarked for Constantinople. In contained them, when his murderer threw the course of the voyage they visited on his neck a running knot, and endeavourNautical Politeness. Our schooner. the Trojan plain and the probable site ed to strangle him; not being able to of Ilium. Dreading to face the plague, villain pierced him in several places with were very dirty, certainly more civil, but, succeed in his purpose, the sanguinary was manned by Illyrian sailors; they which then raged in the northern pro a knife; he was immediately seized and I doubt whether so skilful as the seamen vinces of Greece, they re-embarked at executed for his crime; but his punish of northern kingdoms; those tempests of Constantinople for Athens; thence ment did not repair the loss which litera-long duration, to which the Atlantic sailor passed into the Peloponnesus; saw ture experienced by the death of Winck-is often exposed, are unknown in more the remains of Corinth, Sicyon, Ne-elmann. The venerable antiquary lived confined seas, where, in every part, a mea, Argos, Mantinea, Sparta, Mes-sufficiently long to receive the spiritual secure harbour is at hand, to shield the sene, Phigalia, Olympia, Patræ, &c. consolations of his church, and to dictate battered vessel from the rage of the sea. &c. At Patræ, our travellers embark-his will, by which he named Cardinal Al-In a summer voyage, they have little more ed for the louian Islands, thence passed to do than to eat and drink, tell horrid bani his sole legatee. to Italy, touched at Otranto, BrnWincklemann was the son of an ob-tales of pirates' cruelty, and hail each ship that passes; this last practice is never disi, and Barletta, and returned home-burg; by indefatigable exertions be rais neglected, and the mode of executing it ward through Naples, Rome, and Floed himself to a most conspicuous rank in proves forcibly, that some portion of that the study of antiquity; he was member proneness to compliment, which characOur author having had such a clear of nearly all the literary societies in Eu-terises Italy and all other nations swayed itself even into the dominions of Neptune. by despotic governments, may transfuse An English ship hails in a manner rough; and abrupt-Ho the ship-whither. X-20

rence.

scure tradesman of Stendal, in Branden

rope, and his name will be ever dear to

field and fair play, something good
may be expected from him, and he shall artists.'
speak for himself; although we must
VOL. III.

The account of Pola furnishes us

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