Camden gazette. (Camden, S.C.) 1816-1818, October 10, 1816, Image 1
IN LIFE'S DISAaTKOUS
IbH BY OTHEftS DONE TO YOU,
s . ? Darwin.
View Qfdhc fkreamt
society ifad * the rudcWjj
? civ&zltf on, &$ chafe at
. i^p?jto&n,ftf 6ncjypail
* 'T ti* * -i* -JbsE3
?^vm^pw0tm
Theirpjo-d
n*>urs,and^
frg tfl
Ariosto
twiBgfit of
M wr?f, by
by the 'litter,
6f anage, a
.... ^ I
the production*
. , 5?r.l tn ? moral?, and
darkened by? Coex
isrfhit also with tb^se Authors, was;
Camorns, the poe*?o.f Portugal j the
cnly name, but at) amiable and re
nowned one ! which can restufc that
f degenerate nation ftom the gloom
ofobiirion, or safVi her from the
' stigma of stupidity.
Instances so* numerous, frequent,
and uniform, of great poetical genius
being the regular concomitant of a
fudeage, must asmredly imply some
connectig principle. between thin di
tJ vine attainment, and the moral con
dition of the state that gives it birth.
Before the mind is tamed by scirntp,
critiekVand
Gffis
dots no
^.f^jrden "in dranfttick
envy ot in* cotemro
las ?fcroiight the lyr ick*
i&p^rfcc'stofc^ whichfu
:itors have dqjaircd pf
*'iL- ?'Ti,,-r- ? ' i ii ~i "jri*
vane
was carried,
, and Armstron
i &&&?&
{he parade ?f na^s^e
mfcroso,
ost faceting
' ?^Y3%
in them taljiumriaotikgrjc; ^
)pn& vie with the most ?rlchratS#
descriptions, that Homcrf Virgiljl
6r Camoensposseis. Drjraen iok\\
Pope , are not sufficient in the $amS
graces, In Thompson wt behold a
peerless constellation of this sort of
.imagery, which would ?? confer fresh
renown, and add unequalled beauty
to the most >plendid pages of clas- <
sick Lrttejs.
Goldsmith's Traveller, with the
Dc: ci ted Village, and Parnell's Her
mit, are also replete" with shining
examples of descriptive excellcnct.
And the Wanderer of Savage, shows
-TrrrrnTrrfR
aiiiwM
toil, can
PlN?
?ion, of defe
wiu nocfcarrt
ar4:?^bpr Wrfijce
astc, than a<*vaiij?
iflow vfrOm !'
*. . - ??
splakiing^
illy appear I
ty'of improVcrtwut, and Icfc for
posterity to pfcrfprtruF? -k
f :-r?
L itur jffaerttnn.
* We arc gkd tostta p^cce of wit
?(hesc^ull^tnes.' Tl>c following,
from the Greensburg ^Westmore
land) Gazette, will elftite a smile at
the expence of the " booing", hind
shaking? \vhi*ky treating? electi
oneering gentry of all parti^p.
Hrmfifirld \'2th Aug. 1816.
I am aboutpreparingfor publica
tion a Farce. to be called " The
Election" You may- publi h the
following soliloquy out of it, if
think proper; Perhaps ! may fend
AN AUTHOR.
u, *tafS,rhig.
utdF^ds are maWJ
toH-dtokk.. tJowri
I " If* 7** ?v , <
in tdutWifpes
of JLunniU}, J
rHW r. , > -.. ? - *
plenty <a
froft* e of itittcm^a thlrad
lilcc fibre,' which dctaends jjkr;/en -
dicularly 6-# inches, ailtUhen pro
duces a small tubor. Frotu this*
horizontal fibres, extends kTcvcty
ditection, producing new tubreg in
.intervals of 6 or 8 inches, and
these immediately shoot up stems
to the itirface of the earthy amL
throw out lateral fibres to form a
new progency. >Thir process ia
interminable, and it is curious to see
what a chain, or net- work of plants,
and fibres can with some carc be
dug up in a loose sod. , The only
process yet discovered, by which
the grass ?an be extirpated, is to
plough or hoe the spots in which ic
grows, every day through a whok