That the learned language of Greece was not unsuited to the strains of modern gallantry and sprightliness, a French Gentleman of the seventeenth century appears to have endeavoured to prove, when he wrote a most ele gant copy of Greck verses addressed to a lady who had recovered from the small-pox without injury to her beauty. The ingenious author gave it for a title, "The Wrath of Venus ;" and it may not be unamusing to compare it, in an English dress, with transla tions from the ancient poets :AS Love on Venus' bosom lay, He saw the wife of Fleury stray, And charm'd he flew to meet the dame, And call'd'her by a mother's name. Neglected Venus strove in vain The little rover to restrain; For Cupid, pressing to the fair, That smooth'd the skin,reviv'd the rose To beauty and to health restor❜d, PITY. SOFT as the falling dews of night, The beam that lights her eye. Preserve thy wonted sway; Teach me to blunt affliction's dart, And sooth her cares away. EFFECTUAL MALICE. Or all the pens which my poor rhyme molest, (best Colin's the sharpest is-succeeds the Others outrageous scold, and rail down right, [spight With serious rancour, and true christian Buthe, more sly,pursues his fell design; Writes scoundrel verses-and then says they're mine. A new solution to an old problem. 'Tis clear, since Brandy kill'd Tom's scolding wife, That drinking rids us of the cares of life Published every Saturday by BELCHER ARMSTRONG, State Street. ....SEMPER REFULGET..... No. 6. Boston, Saturday, June 7, 1806. streets are crowded with dominos, and not an individual can be found, that carries his heart in his eye. Men bring even scripture to sanction duplicity and constitute HYPOCRISY virtue. "Avoid the appearance of evil," forms a part of their creed, and they construe the commandment into at least a connivance at the reality. Where a vicious and illicit action has once been committed, and virtuous conduct is attempted with respect to the object of that illicit action, such virtuous conduct ought so to be pursued, as to keep the vicious and illicit out of sight. There indeed the most rigidethician would apply the injunction, "avoid the appearance of evil," for the sake of example, when the reality was over and done and could not be recalled; for if the vice and the vir DECLAMATION on the grace of HYPOCRISY has become so familiar, that men begin to think HYPOCRISY itself a grace. The homage, which vice pays to virtue in assuming her exterior is charitably regarded as the reason, why it is assumed; the consequence, which philosophy, that loves to draw good out of evil, deduces as casually incidental to hypocritical conduct, is taken as the cause of that conduct; what merely falls in by the way, as the end and aim at the outset. Thus men sound the trumpet to their own duplicity, and boast their hom-tue were alike exposed, idle specage to virtue. The face of innocence, say they, was never seen but once. It shone at Mount Sinai. To the face itself we never can aspire, but may evince our adoration by attempting a mask, tators, who contemplated both, might be induced to copy the cause as well, as the consequence, since in fact they are less apt to follow the good, than the evil example. This is peculiarly the case with inThis reasoning must have gener- stances in high life of men, who ally obtained, or the number of have attempted to atone for their hypocrites would be utterly unac- illicit excesses by paying particular countable. Scarcely a man is to attention to the education of those, be seen, who does not look one who were unfortunately the living thing and think another. The ob-effects of them. It is for this reaservation, that a lady applied to a son many condemn LORD CHEScertain gentleman at a masquerade, TERFIELD, and denounce his prethat his face was the best mask," tensions to merit for the eminent is applicable to almost every in-education he bestowed on his son dividual in propria persona. The merely from the ostentation ap G parent in that nobleman's mode of horns of the moon. His wits are conducting it. They consider it an instance of unblushing avowal of illicit connection, in the tropic of CAPRICORN and just ready to turn. But people are soon tired with laughter suppress "Hung up on high to poison half man-ed. The yawn and the gape be kind." It will certainly produce other similar births, but may never give birth to another young STANHOPE. A little HYPOCRISY might have saved my Lord's credit. gin to be general, when our hero's deliverance is at hand. The servant enters, to hand round THE WINE. For earth's sake, FLORESCO, empty the waiter! From long continuance in the Other instances might be sug-habit of attempting to deceive gested, in which HYPOCRISY Seems others, we at length succeed in deinnocent and even commendable.ceiving ourselves. What he at They are generally where she first knew, that he affected, FLOwould prevent the revealing those RESCO now begins to believe does things, which ought to be conceal-really exist. He then fancied himed; not where she would prompt self a successful hypocrite; but the concealment of things, which now forsooth a wise man. He beought to be revealed. gun with the expectation of deludBut men, who assiduously courting others, and ends in deluding the graces, are not apt to leave HY-only himself. The boy, unable to POCRISY Out of the number. swim, but stimulated by vanity to FLORESCO is a man, formed by show his skill, dares venture benature to please in the mediocrity yond his depth. Buoyant pride of life. A pleasant bacchanalian soon breaks under him, and he exThe man, companion, he can toss off his glass poses his weakness. and his toast, and when pretty far that ignorant of the topics, on which he attempts conversation, gone, can prevent the death of inebriety, by stammering out of tune converses on them, that he may a song out of metre. But the man seem learned, has not yet arrived has one fault. FLORESCO is igno-at years of discretion and invariably rant, that he is indebted to the in-betrays ignorance. The catastrophe spiration of wine for what makes is just the reverse of what he exhis company tolerable. It is that pected. What FLORESCO thought he seems sober only when a little the appearance of wisdom was in intoxicated, and a little intoxicated fact the ostentation of folly. Would only when sober. When once he he have played the artful hypocrite, ceases to glow with the exhilarating he should forever have sealed his smiles of the frolicsome god; he lips. Silence may pass for negabecomes a subject for smiles in the tive presumption of sense, where most serious circle. FLORESCO speech is positive proof of inaffects wisdom. Is geography the anity. topic? The fruits of India bloom on the ices of Lapland. Is astronomy the subject? The neck of SATAN is bound with a brass ring. He reminds us of The Goat among the signs of the Ecliptic and is made to run mad by striking against the After all, the fellow has a handsome person, taste enough to dress well, and cash enough to afford it. He might pass for a man of the world. His folly is in attempting to raise himself among those "set apart." HYPOCRISY, like ingratitude, is but one of the vices; but, like that, it includes them all. Were the embodied eloquence of the world to philippize HYPOCRISY; were it to inveigh against the causes and effects of this presumptuous sin; it would be utterly without effect. PAUL may make FELIX tremble; CICERO cause CESAR to weep; but the thunders of OLYMPUS alone. can shake colossal HYPOCRISY. So great is the facility of uttering truth as has been often remarked, that it is utterly unaccountable how men can speak falshood. The thing that is, must lie at the tongue's end and make it difficult to express "the thing that is not." In like manner nature prompts to sincerity. Let the blood, that animates the face with a smile, flow freely from the heart, and every emotion is fairly expressed." The aspect of virtue would mark the virtuous man. This is all so easy, and natural, and generally beneficial that we cannot believe that man ex ists, who, if able, would be willing to invert the order. Yet those there are; spare, Fate, th' avenging rod ! Who act like SATAN, though they look like God. Plot deeds of darkness in the face of day, More damn'd than JUDAS, with a kiss betray. Like fam'd APECA, deck with smiles their face, And stab the deeper, closer they embrace. Reptiles, that live by taking others' breath, And fascinate you to the jaws of death! Should the trump, which is to announce to creation, that "time shall be no more," proclaim to these supine wretches, that their sins were forgiven; the hypocrites Would not believe the Archangel of heaven sincere! ORIGINAL TRANSLATION THE Tyrinthians had such are unconquerable disposition to gaiety and mirth that continual disorder reigned among them. When they assembled on public occasions their disputations were on the follies of the day rather than the general cor.cerns; if ambassadors arrived they were treated with ridicule; if a city convocation was held, the advice of the gravest senator was buffoonry, action would have been a prodigy. and on every occasion a reasonable They at last suffered inconvenience from this spirit of pleasantry, and consulted the Oracle at Delphos on the way to meliorate it.The Oracle gave for answer that "if they could sacrifice a bull to Neptune without laughter, they should obtain the influence of wisdom." The Tyrinthians took every precaution to offer this sacrifice with seriousness. They were careful to exclude all young men, and among the aged they selected those only who were either afflicted by disease, by the pressure of debt, or the torment of a scolding wife. Assembled on the margin of the sea to immolate their victim, the sole care of the deputies was to preserve their gravity, and in order that no extraneous object should distract their attention they fixed their eyes constantly on the ground. Unfortunately a little child wandered near them, and as they endeavoured to drive him away, exclaimed, "you are afraid, I suppose, that I shall swallow your bull." These words disconcerted the constrained gravity of the elders, a burst of laughter ensued, the sacrifice was superceded and reason never again revisited the Tyrintheans. Happy should we be to doubt the truth of this relation, which is however rendered reasonable by other facts much more modern. X. Varietes litteraires, historiques, etc. [Dermody's parallel between SHAKSPEARE and MILTON rivals similar attempts of that Gog and MAGOG of literature, Johnson. It has all their point of comparison without their asperities of diction; or, to reverse the period of a living author, the vigor of the oak without its nudosities.] And his work is that fertile ground, out of which "............ he caus'd to grow "All trees of noblest kind; for sight, smell, taste; "And all amid them stood the TREE OF LIFE, "High, eminant, blooming ambrosial fruit "Of vegetable gold." Nature is so arranged by him, as to receive an additional lustre from art; and the exuberance of the earth appears more, than the labour of the cultivator. SHAKSPEARE, when he soars, is borne by the muse of fire beyond human sight; but MILTON, in his grandest moments, retains the light of reason. His ecstacies are the ecstacies of a philosopher: SHAKSPEARE's are the flights of an invisible being. Notwithstanding this, their spirits are somewhat congenial; for, allowing the variation of the epic from the dramatic, they move us by the same golden springs of pathos. In the art of exciting terror, I am not sure, but that SHAKSPEARE is superior: For instance, the dream of EvE is painted rather tamely, though in just and The genius of SHAKSPEARE and of beautiful colours; while CLAR MILTON contrasted. By the late Thomas Dermody. From Raymond's Memoirs of Dermody just published. SHAKSPEARE is a wild garden, where peaches, plums, and apples are found; some crude, some sour, some rotten, but some incompara ble. He is a vineyard of plenty, where many of the finest branches are ruined for want of the pruning knife. SHAKSPEARE, like the world, is full of good and evil; but his worst fare is so tempting, that we have not power to refrain from trying it. But the chaste, the sublime MILTON is, like his own Eden, *A happy rural seat of various view. ENCE's vision displays the inmost recesses of horror, apprehension, pity, judgment, and admirable fancy. The characters of Satan and Macbeth are both, indeed, extremely well managed, and, in my opinion, extremely alike: They have the same courage, the same undaunted ambition, uncurbed freedom of will, and spirited fortitude in the hour of destruction. They both are conscious of their ingratitude and wickedness; both stubborn and relentless, and, even in the midst of their success, they seem to feel a boding of the consequence. The address of the arch-infidel to the sun is a noble description of the remorse attendant on conscience; it shows that |