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Review Of New Publications.
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
Academical Contributions of orig inal and translated Poetry . Lunn , Cambridge , and Cawthorn , Strand , London , royal % iio . Price - $ s . 6 d . Pages HI . WE are free to own that , after the trite nonsense which has lately come from the University of Cambridge , under the titles of SCRAPS , the TINEUM , & c . we took up this small volume with very great prejudices against it ; btit we fee ! a pleasure in saying , we never have been more agreeably - disappointed . The generality of the p ieces in this collection , are truly
classical and elegant ; and highly honourable to the abilities of the gentlemen concerned . Nor do we think it can with jtistice be said , that any of them are below mediocrity . ' We should presume from the style , that the whole were written by not more than three or four persons ; though all are published without a name .- Stant nominum umbra -. each , performance is distinguished by an initial letter . The advertisement which follows is prefixed to the volume : -
. " The following Poems were written , at different times ,- and in various p laces , by some junior Members of the University of Cambridge ; several of them , previously to the commencement of the academical residence of the authors . Some few have already appeared in a periodical publication ; but , as " they have since been revised , and , we trust , considerably improved , it is hoped the insertion of them among so many pieces , never before published , will not be deemed improper . The whole is now , with becoming deference ,
submitted to the candid acceptance of the public ; in the full confidence , that , if the ACADEMICAL CONTRIBUTIONS possess any merit , the praise , due to that merit , will not be denied them . " Cambridge , April 10 , 1795 . ' ' -
We congratulate the University of Cambridge on this performance ; since it affords an undeniable proof , that the stndy of the severer sciences has not banished poetry from " Gam ' s smooth margent green , " and that the muses are still wooed " in the cloister ' s haunts . " The following stanzas are selected from an Ode entitled "CAR . ACTACTJS . " The British hero , in captivity , is supposed to bewail the miseries' of hia country .
" Proudly o ' er her heroes slain , " See 1 the Roman drives his car ; " While on every bloody plain " Sounds the dreadful din of war . " O ' er the gloomy scene around " Horror spreads his empire wide ; " From the blood-embrued ground
" Floods of carnage stain the tide . " While the bleak winds whistle round , " Lonely wand ' rers o ' er the heath , " In the midnight tempest ' s sound , . - - " Hear the dreadful voice of death . " VOL . vi . Mm
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications.
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
Academical Contributions of orig inal and translated Poetry . Lunn , Cambridge , and Cawthorn , Strand , London , royal % iio . Price - $ s . 6 d . Pages HI . WE are free to own that , after the trite nonsense which has lately come from the University of Cambridge , under the titles of SCRAPS , the TINEUM , & c . we took up this small volume with very great prejudices against it ; btit we fee ! a pleasure in saying , we never have been more agreeably - disappointed . The generality of the p ieces in this collection , are truly
classical and elegant ; and highly honourable to the abilities of the gentlemen concerned . Nor do we think it can with jtistice be said , that any of them are below mediocrity . ' We should presume from the style , that the whole were written by not more than three or four persons ; though all are published without a name .- Stant nominum umbra -. each , performance is distinguished by an initial letter . The advertisement which follows is prefixed to the volume : -
. " The following Poems were written , at different times ,- and in various p laces , by some junior Members of the University of Cambridge ; several of them , previously to the commencement of the academical residence of the authors . Some few have already appeared in a periodical publication ; but , as " they have since been revised , and , we trust , considerably improved , it is hoped the insertion of them among so many pieces , never before published , will not be deemed improper . The whole is now , with becoming deference ,
submitted to the candid acceptance of the public ; in the full confidence , that , if the ACADEMICAL CONTRIBUTIONS possess any merit , the praise , due to that merit , will not be denied them . " Cambridge , April 10 , 1795 . ' ' -
We congratulate the University of Cambridge on this performance ; since it affords an undeniable proof , that the stndy of the severer sciences has not banished poetry from " Gam ' s smooth margent green , " and that the muses are still wooed " in the cloister ' s haunts . " The following stanzas are selected from an Ode entitled "CAR . ACTACTJS . " The British hero , in captivity , is supposed to bewail the miseries' of hia country .
" Proudly o ' er her heroes slain , " See 1 the Roman drives his car ; " While on every bloody plain " Sounds the dreadful din of war . " O ' er the gloomy scene around " Horror spreads his empire wide ; " From the blood-embrued ground
" Floods of carnage stain the tide . " While the bleak winds whistle round , " Lonely wand ' rers o ' er the heath , " In the midnight tempest ' s sound , . - - " Hear the dreadful voice of death . " VOL . vi . Mm