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The papers are compilations, and first scientifick and literary charthe few books published are law acter in the State. He is now embooks and the doggrel hymns of ployed in writing a book on Mathreligious enthusiasts, and now and ematicks, intended as a schoolthen a trash novel, which is com- book. Two sermons and an eumonly exchanged for other trash logium on Gen. Washington by at the Literary Fair. I will give him, which have been published as complete a list as I am able separately in pamphlets, are handof all the original works ever pub- some specimens of his abilities. I lished in this State, with a brief know of no other pamphlets that character annexed.

merit the respect of being named. 1. Haywood's Reports of Cases, There is in this state one unidecided in the Superiour Courts of versity and several academies, but this State. A valuable book, pub- none of them are supported by lished by Hodge & Boylan, 1800. permanent funds. The university N. B. A second volume is now in was founded about fourteen years the press of Wm. Boylan.

ago, and received from the state 2. A Journey to Lake Drum- a donation of all balances then due mond, by Lemuel Sawyer. The the state from revenue officers, events are without interest ; the all confiscated and escheat properremarks puerile, and the language ty, and a loan of $20,000. To a the most superlative bombast. “ huge mishapen pile,” which is Published eight or ten years ago. placed on a high rocky eminence

3. Matilda Berkley, a novel. iwenty-eight miles to the westward About upon a level with the Mas- of this, has been given the name sachusetts novel of the Coquette, of the College, and a donation from or Eliza Wharton. Published by Gen. Thomas Person built a neat J. Gales in 1804.

chapel. After considerable diffi4. Taylor's Reports of Cases, culties were experienced on acadjudged in the Supreme Court of count of incompetent teachers and North Carolina. Of a moderate insurrections among the students, reputation. Marlin & Ogden. 1802. the institution, under the direction

5. History of the Ketukick of Mr. Caldwell, two professors, Baptist Association, by Burkit and and two tutors, acquired regularity Read. Boylan. 1804.

& consistency in its exercises, when 6. A Masonick Ritual, publish- our enlightened legislature discov, ed under the direction of the G. ered that education was inconsistent Lodge of North Carolina. The with republicanism ; that it creabest of the kind. Sims. 1806. ted an aristocracy of the learned,

7. Davies's Calvary. An ex- who would trample upon the rights cellent system. Hodge. 1798. and liberties of the ignorant, and

Cameron's Law Reports are in that an equality of intellect was the press of J. Gales, of which necessary to preserve the equality there are favourable expectations. of rights. Influenced by these

These are the only publications, wise and patriotick considerations, which I recollect, that have assum- the legislature gave to themselves ed the dignity of a volume. Of again, what they had before given political and religious pamphlets to the University. The institution we have quantum sufficit. The Rev. now languishes ; Mr. Caldwell's Joseph Caldwell, president of the anti-republican love of literature, University of N. Carolina, is the and not the emoluments of his

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office, induces him to preserve in ded in Newbern by a donation of existence by his influence even the $500 from Thomas Tomlinson. shadow of a college. He is assist. It is divided into eighty shares ed by only one tutor ; the funds do of $20 each ; all the shares are not permit the employment of more. filled, and the books purchased.

There is an excellent female It is contemplated to extend the academy, lately established by the number of shares to 120. Society of United Brethren (Mo- I know of no other publick liravians) at Salem. There are braries in the state, except one in very good academies in Raleigh, Iredell county, established by a soNewbern, Fayetteville, Lewisburg, ciety called the Centre Benevolent Warrenton,and two or three others. Society, which has subsisted near-A publick library has been foun- ly twenty years.

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or the world

I shall be seen no more.

SILVA,

10. 17. Purpureos metam flores, et flumine libam

Summa. I FORESEE that in writing this from manly, and, if I may so speak, Silva I must frequently recur to progressive exertions. The folthe loose papers on my table, or lowing verses from Southey deto what is as loosely floating in my scribe a kind of seclusion far less memory ; and I hope for pardon pleasing in prospect, than that of from every one, who has himself Politiano, but perhaps more conattempted to compose in the first formable to human passions. month of summer.

In looking over the “ Anatomy of Melancho- Fatigued, and loathing at my fellow-men

'There is a path, ly,” some time since, I found the

The eagle hath not marked it, the young wolf following verses with the reference

Knows not its hidden windings. I have trod
Politianus de Rustico.

Tliat path and marked a melancholy cave,
Where one, whose jaundiced soul abhors itself,

May pamper him in complete wretchedness.
Felix ille animi, divisque simillimus ipsis,

There sepulchred, the ghost of what he was, Quem non mordaci resplendens gloria fuco

Conrade shall dwell, and, in the languid hour, Solicitat ; non fastosi mala gaudia luxus;

when the jarred senses sink to a sick calm, Sed tacitos sinit ire dies et paupere cultu,

Shall mourn the waste of frenzy. Exigit innocua tranquilla silentia vitæ.

This passage is in the 4th Book of These verses are beautiful, but Joan of Arc. In writing the 3d, suchi uniform days would not con- 4th, and 5th lines of it, Southey stitute a happy life. It is strange, undoubtedly had in his memory that any one, who knows himself the 7th and 8th verses of the 28th to be human, should suppose, that chapter of Job. he ever could, even when in health “ There is a path, which no of mind, so divest himself of hope, fowl knoweth, and which the vulas to live content ; that tomorrow ture's eye hath not seen. should be as to day. Common, “ The lion's whelps have not quiet, and domestick pleasures do trodden it, nor the fierce lion pasindeed constitute the most valuable . sed by it." part of our happiness ; but to him alone are they delightful, who re- The necessity of the alternation tires, to be conversant among them, of rest and labour to our happiness

HUMAN NATURE.

is expressed riot inelegantly in us....all, which would first present the conclusion of the two follow- itself to the view of a stranger, is ing passages :

little and low and mean. « Nos “Why you have considered this hic in republica infirma, misera, matter very deeply,” said Dr. commutabilique versamur.” It is Lyster, “ but I must not have you the temper of democracy to crush give way to these serious reflec- every thing elegant, and to batter tions. Thought, after all, has a down every thing noble. In all cruel spite against happiness. I countries where it prevails, there would have you therefore keep as is an ostracism, whether visible or much as you conveniently can not, at constant war with talents out of its company. Run about, and learning and virtue, with all and divert yourself ; 'tis all you qualities which may excite envy have for it. The true art of hap- or claim superiority. In its worst piness, in this most whimsical state, it is the dominion of brute world, seems to be nothing more force and idiot violence. For my than this : let those who have part, I have no wish to take any leisure find employment, and those share in such a miserable soverwho have business find leisure.” eignty. I am willing to submit to Cecilia.

those, on whom nature and educa“ We should have known our- tion have conferred the right to selves to have been in the neigh- rule. bourhood of some place larger than usual [Cologne) from the sight of two or three carriages on the road, nearly the first we had

Alas, poor human nature ! is the seen in Germany. There is, be

most composing exclamation in sides, some shew of labour in the the world. It diffyses among the adjoining villages ; but the sallow species those feelings, which, if countenances and miserable air of concentrated an individual, the people prove, that it is a la would be anger or disgust, but bour not beneficial to them.

which thus become little more

The houses are only the desolated than pity. When we meet with homes of these villagers, for there any thing harsh or unpleasant, it is not one of them that can be

removes our consideration from

the offence to the cause which perous inhabitant of the neighbour- produced it, and whether this be ing city, or to afford that coveted pride, or vanity, or ignorance, or stillness, in which the active find ill-nature, we shall remember, that an occasional reward, and the idle there are many men proud, and perpetual misery.” Mrs.Ratcliffe's vain, and ignorant and ill-natured, Journey through Germany.

and that it is hardly worth while

to be exceedingly angry with one Οι πλειονες κακοι,

of these, because chance has un“ ALL is little and low and mean

fortunately cast him in our way. among us," said Lord Bolingbroke, speaking of the state of England when he wrote. I will repeat his The beginning of the 4th book language, and apply it to my own of Lucretius contains the common country. All, which is most boast of poets that they are wriprominnt and apparent among ting of " things unattempted yet,"

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LUCRETIUS.

and his celebrated simile, by which

BASIUM I.

he gives his reason for treating Cum Venus Afcanium fuper alta Cythera tulisset ; philosophical subjects in verse. The following is a translation, which was sometime since made of this passage.

LUCRETIUS, b. iv. c. 1.

Now through the Mufes' pathlefs plains I ftray,
Where no preceding footsteps mark the way;
I drink delighted fprings to me revealed,
I pluck delighted flowers before concealed;
Well pleased to weave a not ignoble crown,
And veil my brows with honours yet unknown.
For of high themes I fing, and would unbind
Religion's fetters from the trembling mind;
Obfcurer fubjects treat in lucid verfe,
And all around poetick charms difperfe
With wife defign; for as phyficians use,
When they harsh wormwood in a cup infuse
For fome fick child who loaths the med❜cine much,
With yellow honey all the brim to touch,
And thus the unthinking boy allured to tafte,
Drains down the bitter juice with careless hatte,
By this kind art not cheated, though deceived,
And thus from weakness and from pain relieved.
So I, because to most my subje& seems
But harsh, and all the vulgar dread my themes,
To woo the tafte, Pierian sweets disperse,
And grace my reasonings with the charms of verfe.

The 9th and 10th lines are not, I believe, a correct translation, but I have not the original, and cannot determine. The sense I think is preserved, but not the expression. The 7th and 8th lines of the translation appear so harsh, that I will observe, that there are not many men, I suppose, who have learning enough to read and taste enough to be pleased with the poetry of Lucretius, who are not disgusted with his philosophy.

SECUNDUS.

THE following are the original and a translation of the First Basium of Secundus, which treats of the origin of kisses. The classical reader will immediately recollect, that it is founded on the relation in the first book of the Eneid, of Venus removing her grandson Ascanius from the court of Dido. "At Venus Ascanio," &c. 1. 694.

Sopitum teneris impofuit violis ;
Albarum nimbos circumfudit rofarum,
Et totum liquido fparfit odore locum.
Mox veteres animo revocavit Adonidis igneis,
Notus et irrepfit ima per offa calor.

O quoties voluit circundare colla nepotis ?
O, quoties dixit? Talis Adonis erat.
Sed placidum pueri metuens turbare quietem,
Fixit vicinis Bafia mille rofas.

Ecce calent illæ ; cupidæ per ora Diones
Aura, fufuranti flamine, lenta fubit.
Quotquot rofas, tetigit, tot Basia nata repente
Gaudia reddebant multiplicata Deæ.
At Cytherea natans per nubila Cygnis,
Ingentis terræ coepit obire globum ;
Triptolemiq: modo foecundis ofcula glebis
Sparfit, et ignotos ter dedit ore fonos.
Inde feges felix nata eft mortalibus ægris
Inde medela meis unica nata malis.
Salvete æternum! miferæ moderamina flammæ,
Humida de gelidis Bafia nata rofis.

En ego fum, veftri quo vate canentur honores,
Nota Medufæi dum juga montis erunt.
Et memor Æneadum, ftirpifque difertus amatæ
Mollia Romulidum verba loquitur amor.

TRANSLATION.

When Venus bore with fond delight
Afcanius to Cythera's height,
On violets rifing to be preft
She laid the blooming boy to reft;
Clouds of white rofes o'er him spread,
And liquid fragrance round him shed.
Then as the gazed, a well known flame
With gentle tremors thrilled her frame,
The boy had all Adonis' charms,

How oft the longed to clasp her arms
Around his neck; how oft she said,
Adonis once fuch charms displayed.
But fearful to disturb his reft,

she on each rofe a kiss imprest.

And lo! they warm; with murmurs weak
A foft air wantons o'er her cheek.

Each rofe the touched, a new-born kifs
Glowed on her lips with novel blifs.
Now floating where the thin clouds spread,
Dione's car her white fwans led,
O'er the wide earth the flowly paft,
And on its fertile bofom caft
Full many a kifs; her warm lips move,

Thrice uttering unknown founds of love.

And hence a fruitful harvest rofe

For weary man oppreft with woes.

Ye only medicines of my grief,
That fometimes give a fhort relief,
Moift kiffes from cold roses sprung,
Your poet's verfe fhall long be fung;
Long as the Mufes' mount remains,

Or love well learned in Latian ftrains,
And pleased the Ænean race to own,
Speaks the foft words to Romans known.

SANS SOUCI.

Stealing and giving sweets.

IN the year 1784 Dr. Hunter first appeared before the world, in the character of an author, by the publication of two volumes of his Sacred Biography. The plan of this work he had conceived, we are told, when young; and so favourable was the reception it experienced, as to encourage him to extend it to seven volumes. Previous, however, to the publication of the latter part of this work, accident introduced him to an acquaintance with a French edition of Lavater's Physiognomy. Whatever opinions Dr. Hunter embraced, he embraced warmly.' He was struck with the novelty and originality of thought displayed in the essays of that writer; he became an enthusiast in the cause; and determined to translate them into English. The same ardent spirit which had induced Dr. H. to adopt this scheme, prompted him to make a journey to Zurich, for the sake of a personal interview with Lavater. In August 1787 he accordingly repaired thither. It might have been reasonably expected,that a proceeding so romantick would have been considered by Lavater as no common compliment to him. But he did not receive Dr. Hunter with that frankness or generosity, to which so distinguished a mark of respect seemed fairly to entitle him. Lavater was jealous of Dr. H.'s undertaking, and thought the English translation likely to injure the sale of the French edition, in which he was interested. By degrees, however, his scruples were overcome, and he finally opened himself to the Doctor without reserve. In a letter, written by the

SHAKESP.

latter gentleman from Bern, a por trait of Lavater is drawn, and a descripttion of their last interview is given. This we consider as a curious literary morsel, and we shall make no apology for transcribing it into the Anthology.

"I was detained the whole morning by that strange, wild, eccentrick,Lavater, in various conversations. When once he is set agoing, there is no such thing as stopping him, till he run himself out of breath. He starts from subject to subject, flies from book to book, from picture to picture; measures your nose, your eye, your mouth, with a pair of compasses; pours forth a torrent of physiognomy upon you; drags you, for a proof of his dogma, to a dozen of closets, and unfolds ten thousand drawings; but will not let you open your lips to propose a difficulty: crams a solution down your throat, before you have uttered half a syllable of your objection. He is meagre as the picture of famine; his nose and chin almost meet. I read him in my turn,and found little difficulty in discovering, amidst great. genius, unaffected piety, unbounded benevolence, and moderate learning; much caprice and unsteadiness; a mind at once aspiring by nature, and grovelling through necessity; an endless turn to speculation and project -in a word, a clever, flighty, good-natured necessitous man. He did not conceal his dread of my English translation, as he thinks is will materially affect the sale of the third and fourth volumes of his French edition, one of which is actually published, and the other in the press.”

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