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Review Of New Publications.
• Theocritus and Virgil , among the ancients , were allowed to be the most happy and characteristic in their descriptive imagery , and the least laboured in their versification ; and if the Author of the present . Volume has in his leisure hours caught a spark , of imitation of those admired Bards , his purpose will most probably be accomplished . ' If in the perusal of the following Poems a consonancy to Nature is conspicuous it may not perhaps fail to recommend them to a place in the libraries
of the lovers of retirement and the local beauties of sylvan scenery . ' The descriptive parts contained in these effusion ? are warmed by the animating glow of inherent sensibility , and will be found to be not . wholly incompatible with the peculiar and appropriate beauties which occur to a constant resident in the country , according to the different changes of the year , Avhen , like the writer of these pages , he shall " copy nature from her living book . " At the same time it is presumed that the moral , amatoryand
sen-, timental parts will be found to convey chaste , tender , and social ideas . ' To conclude , our Author appears to have painted each scene , not as it is often aggravated by unwarrantable liberties of fiction , but as in reality it is , consonant to the plain , unvarnished language of truth and friendship , as constantly pictured to us by Nature . ' Dr . Perfect , die esteemed Author of this small volume , has been a valuable and constant Correspondent to our Magazine from its first
Institution , and man } ' of his Poetic Flowers have already bloomed in our parterre . Our Miscellany has also been enriched with his Portrait and biographical sketches of his life ; for which fide oar Vth . Volume . Fastidious criticism might point out some innaccuracies of language , which v . e doubt not the Doctor ' s judgment will in future correct . We particularly advise him to avoid putting his nominative case after the verb , which is too frequent with hira ; and never to put the sign of the genitive case between
the adjective and substantive as " Nestorian of Reign" ( Fide Page 107 . ) Upon the whole however , we sincerely recommend these Effusions to the perusal of every one who has a taste for simplicity and the truth of nature ; and hope they will meet with that success which their merits so well deserve . The Horrid Mysteries : a Story . Tr-om the German of the Marquis Grosse . By P . Will . 4 ' vols . lzmo . Price 14 s . Lane .
THE secret tribunal winch existed in Germany , in its full force and extent , under the emperors Sigismtujd and Wenceslaus , has lately been brought into notice in our language b y the translation of the work of professor Kramer called '; Herman 0 } 'U ' tma j" and the Horrid Mysteries are a second attempt to detail the mischiefs arising from secret societies in general . The Marquiss of Grosse , the Author of these Volumes , was ( as we are informed in a Preface ) one of the leaders of the se < __ of the illuminated in
Bavaria ; and is supposed to relate the incidents of his own life . The Preface farther informs us , that the Marquis , on account of bis connections with the stft just mentioned , was banished the dominions of the Elector ; and that be njiiv resides in privacy in the small town of Algeziras , near Cadiz , in the kingdom ofSpain . In perusing this singular production , the attention is throughout strongly arrestedand the imagination kept constant stretchThe vision of the
, on a . Genius AM ANUBJ ., and the initiation of" the Marquis into the order , are highly wrought , and strike us alniost with horror . Tfie descriptive parts are rich titid poetical ; and iiij observations on human nature , the observations of a philosopher and scholar . We , therefore , strongly recommend it to those readers who are fond of the majestic and terrible in writing . Sucl ) j , s pur opinion of the work'itself , The translation , however , deserves
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications.
• Theocritus and Virgil , among the ancients , were allowed to be the most happy and characteristic in their descriptive imagery , and the least laboured in their versification ; and if the Author of the present . Volume has in his leisure hours caught a spark , of imitation of those admired Bards , his purpose will most probably be accomplished . ' If in the perusal of the following Poems a consonancy to Nature is conspicuous it may not perhaps fail to recommend them to a place in the libraries
of the lovers of retirement and the local beauties of sylvan scenery . ' The descriptive parts contained in these effusion ? are warmed by the animating glow of inherent sensibility , and will be found to be not . wholly incompatible with the peculiar and appropriate beauties which occur to a constant resident in the country , according to the different changes of the year , Avhen , like the writer of these pages , he shall " copy nature from her living book . " At the same time it is presumed that the moral , amatoryand
sen-, timental parts will be found to convey chaste , tender , and social ideas . ' To conclude , our Author appears to have painted each scene , not as it is often aggravated by unwarrantable liberties of fiction , but as in reality it is , consonant to the plain , unvarnished language of truth and friendship , as constantly pictured to us by Nature . ' Dr . Perfect , die esteemed Author of this small volume , has been a valuable and constant Correspondent to our Magazine from its first
Institution , and man } ' of his Poetic Flowers have already bloomed in our parterre . Our Miscellany has also been enriched with his Portrait and biographical sketches of his life ; for which fide oar Vth . Volume . Fastidious criticism might point out some innaccuracies of language , which v . e doubt not the Doctor ' s judgment will in future correct . We particularly advise him to avoid putting his nominative case after the verb , which is too frequent with hira ; and never to put the sign of the genitive case between
the adjective and substantive as " Nestorian of Reign" ( Fide Page 107 . ) Upon the whole however , we sincerely recommend these Effusions to the perusal of every one who has a taste for simplicity and the truth of nature ; and hope they will meet with that success which their merits so well deserve . The Horrid Mysteries : a Story . Tr-om the German of the Marquis Grosse . By P . Will . 4 ' vols . lzmo . Price 14 s . Lane .
THE secret tribunal winch existed in Germany , in its full force and extent , under the emperors Sigismtujd and Wenceslaus , has lately been brought into notice in our language b y the translation of the work of professor Kramer called '; Herman 0 } 'U ' tma j" and the Horrid Mysteries are a second attempt to detail the mischiefs arising from secret societies in general . The Marquiss of Grosse , the Author of these Volumes , was ( as we are informed in a Preface ) one of the leaders of the se < __ of the illuminated in
Bavaria ; and is supposed to relate the incidents of his own life . The Preface farther informs us , that the Marquis , on account of bis connections with the stft just mentioned , was banished the dominions of the Elector ; and that be njiiv resides in privacy in the small town of Algeziras , near Cadiz , in the kingdom ofSpain . In perusing this singular production , the attention is throughout strongly arrestedand the imagination kept constant stretchThe vision of the
, on a . Genius AM ANUBJ ., and the initiation of" the Marquis into the order , are highly wrought , and strike us alniost with horror . Tfie descriptive parts are rich titid poetical ; and iiij observations on human nature , the observations of a philosopher and scholar . We , therefore , strongly recommend it to those readers who are fond of the majestic and terrible in writing . Sucl ) j , s pur opinion of the work'itself , The translation , however , deserves