POETRY.

Most cordially sympathize.
For no cosmetic can restore,
Nor philtre's necromantive power,
To faded cheeks the roses' charms,
Or lovers to your anxious arms.
With grief reciprocal I view
Your plaints, and mutually rue
The woeful late-repented things
That foolish affectation brings;
With you lament, that fate unfair,
Should make it your unhappy share,
To bring, (and yet remain alive,)
No increase to the social hive.
(To be continued.)

Sir,

No. 39.

Boston, Saturday, January 24, 1807.

ORIGINAL PAPERS.

FOR THE EMERALD.

THE WANDERER,

No. 63.

Dulce est desipere.

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TO THE WANDERER.

THERE is no greater folly than always to be wise. A man whose stately disposition or inflexible mind never bends to the common pleasures of society, who finds no amusement in the levities of a social evening, no gratification in the unreserved familiarity of fire-side conversation, or cannot enter with some degree of spirit into the trifling chit-chat of a ball-room, may be thought abroad in the world to be a very knowing gentleman; but I always look upon him deficient in the better part of wisdom, and rank him in the scale of mental utility but little above an ideot.

Accommodation is the great secret of happiness, and as much a duty as a pleasure when it demands the sacrifice of no moral sentiment. Very little wisdom therefore is discovered in a separation from common principles and received forms; but the reserve of those who look at the pleasures of life with a cross eye, is not the effect of superior intelligence, but an affectation that is intended to conceal the weakness of the mind. Who can bear the labours without the relaxation of life? VOL II.

Who can pursue his long journey without baiting on the road? It is requisite sometimes to bring the "great mind" down to a level with little things; to sport with the idle, to laugh with the gay, to leave the cares of life and the business of the times outside of the door, and to enter with a heart of levity the circle of rational amusements.

LAVINIA knows this, and puts it in practice-She is in no danger of being taken for a book-worm; and as for being liable to a censure for gravity, she knows not what gravity means-She is all life, humour, vivacity, spirit-She dances at every ball, sees every new play, is at the loo-party or whist table while any one will keep her companyShe pleases wherever she appears. The gentlemen are delighted with her pleasant and vivacious manners, and she makes the ladies good na tured in spite of themselves.

LAVINIA was a reigning toast before the mothers of several of the young fair, who are just beginning to figure in life, were married; but though some say she must die a maid, not being at home long enough to be courted, and others that her wild dissipation injures her bloom and impairs her health; and some again, that her disposition is not now so equable as it was within their recollection; yet I do not believe the censures of envy; and when a woman talks disrespectfully of a gen tleman's favourite, I commonly de duct more than half for scanda 1.→→

smile; but they were mere butterflies on the rose, that sipped its sweets for a moment, and left-it-for the next flower that bloomed,— The other, without those personal charms that commanded attention, had that, affability and sweetness of manners, which when once they at

But it must be confessed, notwith- and the spirit of the one drew tostanding, that Lavinia carries her gether a crowd of beaux, ambitious arrangements of pleasure farther of pleasing, and rewarded by a than prudence would direct. In the ball-room, most admirers are commonly gained by the gayest and pleasantest companion; but he who seeks at the assembly for a wife, makes a bad bargain if he gets one. He is pretty much on a par with a man who would eat a lark for its singing." There are other circum-tracted the eye, always retained the stances to be considered: She who heart. Aurelia has been for several is found only in the throng, has no years the mistress of a family; and opportunity of discovering her do- those little miniatures of love that mestic talents; and she who is nev. are growing up around her, will be er seen in the companies of fashion, taught their mother's correctness-cannot evince her powers for elegant neither on one hand to be general life. It is the union of business and devotees to pleasure, nor on the pleasure, that shows in full force other entirely to neglect its allure. the abilities of the mind and its ca- ments; not to pretend a superioripability of affording perpetual de- ty over its charms; a mind above light; and that frivolity which its reach, but to mingle with the makes pleasure the object and busi-world, to adopt its manners and foi. ness of life, or that reserved system low its directions, remembering al which affects to consider business ways that there is a superior object not merely a necessary occupation, of attention, and that dissipation but the best and only pleasure, is a may be lawfully indulged only when deception which must one day be it does not interfere with reason, discovered,

For the Emerald.

Messrs. Editors,

W

The following Cross Readings have been discovered in several late papers. They are submitted to your disposal.

F.

Thirty pipes cognac brandyFor four or five gentlemen of the Court.

AURELIA united the manners of fashion with the habits of domestic life-She was not so frivolous as to neglect useful acquirements, nor so deep a student as to pass over the accomplishments and manners of ele gant fashion-She was not too vola tile to learn the interior economy.of a household, nor too much occupied with these avocations to mingle in the gaiety of fashion and the pleasures of the day. Not devoted on- Many articles of foreign intellitirely to either, she divided propor-gence were unfortunately consumtionably her time among all. Ated by the fire. home, you saw the correctness and prudence of her domestic establishment, and abroad the charms of a refined education and the accomplished manners of the lady. She entered the beau monde at the same time with Lavinia. The beauty

Upland cotton-For the young ladies academy.

Wanted to purchase, any quantity of honesty, integrity and other odd articles for Michigan bills.

Lost, supposed to be stolen-Five miles ofthe Newburyport Turnpike,

Married on Thursday evening | letters, by their having treasured up

last The largest drove of horn catthe ever brought to market.

The senate yesterday by yeas and nays took a few boxes of Hamilton's worm destroying lozenges. An act to suspend the operation of any quantity of distilled spirits. To be sold by the package or single piece-pétitions for Turnpikes, Insurance companies--and other wholesale articles.

the manuscripts, the only repositories of learning before the discovery of printing. The greater part of these were brought forth at various times from the dust of monastic libraries; and it was especially from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, that copies less rare, and commenced the revival of letters. For a long time after, the learned used only the Latin language, no people being yet sufficiently confi dent of the powers of their own tongue to think it capable of conveying works of genius. Poetry alone, more enterauc-prising, had hazarded in the modern

of the works of the ancients became

Several ladies of distinguished fashion will be sold by public tion to the highest bidder.

tongues some rude efforts, which re

Taken by executionThe new sembled the lisping of children. Two representatives to congress. A wet nurse wanted-for the efit of Harvard college.

The southern mail establishment has been indicted for disorderly conduct.

persons, indeed, before the art of printben-ing was known had the happy fortune to produce in their native idiom works which tended to render their language durable. These were Dante and Fetrarch; and it was Italy that had the glory of their birth; which proves that the Italian is that among the modern languages which was the earliest in enltivation, and that Italy was the country in Europe which in times of barbarism still preserved most of genius and taste for letters. Bocase accomplished that for the Italian prose which PeA man was lately detected intrarch had for its poetry. To the graces preaching to a large congregation.

The theatre during the seasonhas lost its main-stays and been in very leaky condition.

The third subscription assembly -contained many articles of no value, except to the owner.

<SKETCH >of the ISTORV of LITERA TURE IN EUROPE from the AGE of AU "CUSTUS to that of LOUIS XIV. By

DE LA HARPE.

(Continued from p. 30.) In the midst of this degrading state of things, to whom do we ove the obligation of preserving at least the dispersed materials which served in the result to re-construct the edifice of human knowledge? History will answer for us, it is to the clergy. They only had still some tincture of learning and hence it was that the name of clerk be'came synonimous with that of a 'scholar, and was bestowed even upon all those who could read, that acquisition being sufficiently rare to be entitled to a privileged name. To the studies of the clergy we are indebted for having opened the way for the restoration of

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of a natural recital Booace added a sur

prising purity of diction, which many years after made him, it may be said, the cotémporary of the most esteemed authors of Italy. And this is an advantage which the best writers of France and England, before their native languages were fixed, have not enjoyed: while the excellence of their genius has snatched their works from oblivion, it could not preserve their language from growing obsolete.

The middle of the fifteenth century was the memorable epoch of the invéntion of the art of printing, which multiplying with such astonishing facility the images of thought, has established from one end of the earth to the other a constant and rapid intercourse of reason and talents. It permits the man who thinks, to communicate in the same moment with all who read.

In rendering books as cominion and popular as manuscripts were rare and inaccessible, it has drawn science and truth from the retreats of letters, and

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