In the age of Pericles arrived at astonishing perfection in the Athenian Republic. The dazzled multitude" judge of the power of a State by its magnificence: hence that repect for artists who distinguish themselves by a happy boldness. Some labored gratuitously for the Republic, and had honors decreed them; others enriched themselves either by teaching pupils, or taking money from those who came to admire their masterly productions. Several, elated with general approbation, found a still more flattering =recompence in the consciousness of their superiority and in the homage they themselves rendered to their abilities; nor did they blush to inscribe on their pictures: It will be easier to criticise than to imitate. Zeuxis acquired such great wealth that towards the end of his life he made presents of his paintings, affirming that nobody was rich enough to purchase. Parrhacius had such an exalted opinion of himself as to kay claim on a divine origin,, HARMOBIUS AND ARISTOCITON Were celebrated names in the annals of Greece. The following is. the translation of a song in their praise: I will wear my sword covered with myrtle branches, like Harnodius and Aristopiton, when they slew the tyrant and established equality of laws in Athens. Beloved Harmodius, thou art not dead! They say thou livest in the Islands of the blessed, where is the swift footed Achilles, and Diomed the valiant son of Tydeus. with myrtle branches, like HarmoI will wear my sword covered dius and Aristogiton, when they slew the tyrant Llipparchus at the festival of the Panathenea May your glory be eternal, beloved IIarmodius, noble Aristogiton, since you have slain the tyrant, and established equality of laws in Athens! They who have read Madoc, will read again with pleasure the wonderful account of the Snake God, and those who have not, may have their curiosity excited by it to a good purpose. Southey has been censured for this part of his " poetical story" as absurd and improbable. But that serpents can be tamed is a known zoolological fact, that they have been seen of this size is likewise true, and for the purpose of governing a people, the. ingenuity of man would perform greater wonders than the faming of a monster. As with bark and resinous boughs who treads Then questing, reared and stretched In maddening motion, and with mad and waved his neck, And glanced his forky tongue. J Who then had seen The man, with what triumphant fear dening cries, Revolving, whirled and wheeled. length, when now, At According to old rites, he should have dashed On the stone Idol's head the wretch's brains, Neolin stopt, and once again began The long, shrill,piercing,modulated cry. The Serpent knew the call, and, rolling Blood for the God! he cried; Lin-liness. coya's blood, Friend of the Serpent's foe !... coya's blood! Lin 2. In demeanor, reason and simplicity. 3. In actions, justice and generosity. 4. In language, truth and perspicuity. 5. In adversity, fortitude and pride. 6. In prosperity, moderation: and modesty. 7. In company affability and ease. 8. In domestic life, rectitude and kindness, without familiarity. 9. Fulfil duties according to their order and importance. 10. Never allow yourself any thing but what a third enlightened and impartial person would allow you, 11. Avoid giving advice. 12. When you have a duty to fulfil, consider dangers only as inconveniences, and not as obstacles. 13. Sacrifice every thing to peace of mind. 14. Combat adversity, as disease, with temperance. 15. Be anxious only to do what is right, paying as much respect as possi ble to the world and to the laws of decorum; but, having observed this rule, be indifferent to public opinion. 16. Deserve respect. The Wanderer this evening has discussed a subject which has given rise to many opposite opinions. The repu tation of these numbers will ensure it attention, and we trust it will be found he has chosen the true path between the extravagance of Wieland and the folly of the Cynics. For the Emeral. LOVE.. POETRY. HAST thou seen in cloudless night Hesper in his glory rises, Night of all her stars most prizes? Hast thou seen where flow'rets blow, Her to grow, Beauty calls the queen of Blowers ;' Fragrance, thro' the air in showers. O! as fair 'mid stars of night, Hesper's dight, Shines, all other stars excelling; And tints as fair, as spring's sweet rose Doth disclose,, Than others blooming round her Thus, superior all above, Beauteous as the orient morning, With her roseate tints adorning. Making your beliest a duty, Let me, with a poet's eye, Tints desery, Decking thee in awful beauty. Thou 'it fair, as is the god of day, With golden ray Rising glorious out of ocean; While his car each swelling wave Fondly lave Glittering sweet in every motion. Fair, as when at highest noon, Rides the moon Shedding round her silver glory; And loves to see where crown'd with wreath, Dance beneath The fairies, great in ancient story. Fair, as when in vernal day Thou doth play And in Beauty's lap reposes; She bedecks with paphian roses. DIBDIN, who is so much at home as a song writer on deck, is not less easy on shore. The following ballad is very easy and sprightly, and the week's journal of a giddy girl will divert our readers. LECTUR'D by Pa and Ma o'er night, Made an excuse, got Ma to back it, Clackit. Wednesday came down, no lark so gay, The girl's quite alter'd, said my mother, Cried Dad, I recollect the day In the paper read that widow Placket ces, Each felt my pulse; ah me, cried I, brain. CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE. This little moral poem was written by How happy is he born or taught, Who hath his life from rumours freed; What shall I give you-captain Clackit. ces, A letter, I had been to blame. The polite reader will readily remem- If she be not fair to me, This beautiful little poem, which finely I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me ; raise, Or vice: who never understood Nor rules of state, but rules of good: EPIGRAMS. 'Tis strange, Prudilla, you accuse AN INSUPERABLE DIFFICULTY. For Jack's good life to certify Nor friends nor strangers can be got, Those, who don't know him, know not why; Those, who do know him, know why not. When yielding blushes aid their hue. On seeing a Narcissus in the bosom of Is her hand so soft and pure, a beautiful young Lady. If Chloe's swelling seat of joy, REFULGET. No. 24. Boston, Saturday, October 11, 1806. ORIGINAL PAPERS. FOR THE EMERALD. THE WANDERER, No. XLIX. IDOLS. Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone." alone." Leave them to the natural progress of their own motion and it will at length "bring them up from the pit." We live in an idolatrous generation. Men no longer hew out to themselves gods of wood or stone; nor place the heaven, "not made with hands," in a hovel of brick, hay, or stubble. But they worship the God within, whose heaven is a house of clay. From vanity," the rock of ages," SELF out-thunders Sinai in the denunciation, "Thou shalt have no other God before me!" The His THIS is one of those many texts of scripture, that need no explanation. No man cares about the peculiar sort of idols Ephraim had joined. It is enough that the verse in-word has gone forth among the naculcates the common opinion, that tions and it will not return void.-the best thing to be done in certain They take upon them his service, situations is to do nothing at all. for it has the gentleness of flattery; The human mind is so consituted, they obey his command, for they are it can neither soar nor sink beyond sweeter than compliments. a certain degree. "Hitherto shalt "yoke is indeed easy" and his bùrthou go, but no farther," seemed to then light." Self-righteousness or mark out the mounds, that were op- self-wisdom, self-humility, or some posed to it from the beginning by perfection of self, are become the the denunciation of nature. Against gods of so many, that "as for the these mounds it may indeed strike, Lord God, we wot not what has bebut will inevitably rebouud, like the come of him. wave of the ocean in a contrary di- See yonder Curioso, that is passrection. Hence we have seen minds, ing up the hill. His ruling passion that we thought abandoned to every is the love of antiquities. Some horror of depravity and sunk to the work of creation is the only "Anne plus ultra of wretchedness, when tient of days" he worships. Days once left to themselves unexpected- and nights he devotes to this ido ly and on a sudden rise to rank again The collection of antiques engroses with rational souls and resume their his soul. The money he meant station in the order of created intelligencies. When men get to this ne plus ultra, or near it, the best way to accelerate reform is to "let them A a should buy meat for a suffering family, he would cheerfully spend for the first non-descript bauble that attracted attention. He lets his hil |