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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
The sepulchre, suddenly Neolin
they pile
Sprung up aloft, and shricked, as one

who treads

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Then questing, reared and stretched In maddening motion, and with mad and waved his neck, And glanced his forky tongue.

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Who

then had seen The man, with what triumphant fear

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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

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Blood for the God! he cried; Lin-liness. coya's blood,

Friend of the Serpent's foe !...

coya's blood!

Lin

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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
When so bright

Hesper in his glory rises,
Him that lovers most revere,
And so dear,

Night of all her stars most prizes? Hast thou seen where flow'rets blow, Her to grow,

Beauty calls the queen of Blowers ;'
When soft kiss'd by vernal gales,
She exhales,

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
dwelling.

Thus, superior all above,
Shines my love!

Beauteous as the orient morning,
When all beauty she doth rise,
And the skies,

With her roseate tints adorning.
In the heart's recesses, Love,
Where you rovE,

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;
While with fond maternal joy
You her boy,

She bedecks with paphian roses.
And is it true then, mighty Love,
That you prove

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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,
Monday at ten, quite vex'd and jealous,
Resolv'd in future to be right,
And never listen to the fellows,
Stitch'd half a wristband, read the text,
Receiv'd a note from Mrs. Racket:
I hate that woman, she sat next,
All church time, to sweet capt, Clackit.
Tuesday got scolded, did not care,
The toast was cold, 'twas past eleven ;
I dreamt the captain through the air
On Cupid's wings bore me to Heaven:
Pouted and dined, dressed, looked di-
vine,

Made an excuse, got Ma to back it,
Went to the play, what joy was mine,
Talked loud and laugh'd with captain

Clackit.

Wednesday came down, no lark so gay, The girl's quite alter'd, said my mother,

Cried Dad, I recollect the day
When, dearee, thou wert such another.
Danced, drew a landscape, skimmed a
play,

In the paper read that widow Placket
To Gretna Green had run away,
The forward minx, with captain Clackit.
Thursday fell sick; poor soul she'll die
Five doctors came with lengthen'd fa-

ces,

Each felt my pulse; ah me, cried I,
Are these my promis'd loves and graces?
Friday grew worse; cried Ma, in pain,
Our day was fair, heaven do not black it;
Where's your complaint, love? In my

brain.

CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE.

This little moral poem was written by
Sir Henry Wotton, who died provost of
Eaton, in 1639, aged 72; and is said
to have been much admired by Mr. Ad-
dison.

How happy is he born or taught,
That serveth not another's will;
Whose armour is his honest thought,
And simple truth his highest skill:
Whose passions not his masters are;
Whose soul is still prepar'd for death;
Not ty'd unto the world with care
Of prince's ear, or vulgar breath:

Who hath his life from rumours freed;
Whose conscience is his strong retreat;
Whose state can neither flatterers feed,
Nor ruin make oppressors great:
spi-Who envies none, whom chance doth

What shall I give you-captain Clackit.
Early next morn a nostrum came
Worth all their cordials, balms and

ces,

A letter, I had been to blame.
The captain's truth brought on a crisis.
Sunday, for fear of more delays,
Of a few clothes I made a packet,
And Monday morn stept in a chaise,
And ran away with captain Clackit.

The polite reader will readily remem-
ber an old song, ascribed to Sir Wal-
ter Raleigh, of which two lines are,

If she be not fair to me,
What care I how fair she be.

This beautiful little poem, which finely
displays the jealous pride of a lover,
has, we think, been imitated by Mr.
Sheridan, in his charming opera, the
Duenna. But Mr. S. is no plagiarist,
and his copy is as enchanting as the
original.

I ne'er could any lustre see

In eyes that would not look on me ;
I ne'er saw nectar on a lip,
But where my own did hope to sip.
Has the maid, who seeks my heart,
Cheeks of rose untouch'd by art?
I will own the colour true,

raise,

Or vice: who never understood
How deepest wounds are given with
praise;

Nor rules of state, but rules of good:
Who God doth late and early pray
More of his grace than gifts to lend;
And entertains the harmless day
With a well-chosen book or friend.
This man is freed from servile bands,
Of hope to rise, or fear to fall;
Lord of himself, tho' not of lands;
And having nothing, yet hath all.

EPIGRAMS.

'Tis strange, Prudilla, you accuse
Of too much warmth my wanton muse,
When you read on with all your might,
And practice what I only write!

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,
I must press it to be sure;
Nor can I e'en be certain then,
Till it grateful press again.
Must I, with attentive eye,
Watch her beaving bosom sigh ;-
I will do so, when I see
That heaving bosom sigh for me.

a beautiful young Lady.

If Chloe's swelling seat of joy,
Had been thy blissful bier,
Then hadst thou died, enamour'd boy,
Not for thyself-but her.

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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

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