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"Tucca vetat, Variusque simul; tu, maxime Caesar, 



u Non sinis, et Latiae consulis historiae. 



" Infelix gemino cecidit prope Pergamos igni, 



" Et pene est alio Troja cremata rogo." 



Tib. Cl. Donati. 



Vita P. Virgilii Maronis. 



A FREE TRANSLATION. 



Once, Virgil intended to tear up his song 



About strolling ^Eneas and light his cigar 

 With the fragments, but Caesar declared he was wrong 



And he swore, by Olympus, 't was better, by far, 

 For Tucca and Varius to write it out, neat- 



Ly, and then in his cup-board he 'd stow it away; 

 So they did and we have it, a capital treat, 



Though it lies, now and then, as all poesy may : 

 Thus the demon that rose on, that notable night, 



To spread conflagration with fiery wing 

 Over I lion again hath, for aye, taken flight 



To the furnace of Pluto, Hurrah ! Let us sing 

 Tiddy dol lol- tiddy dol. 



THEOBALD. 



LITERARY NOTICES. 



PRESENT AND RETROSPECTIVE. 



No. I. THE u ADONAIS" OF SHELLEY. 



NOTHING can be more humiliating to human na- 

 ture or more painful to human sympathy than to see 

 a mind great by endowments and expanded by cul- 

 ture wilfully cloud the lustre of its genius and pour 

 poison into the streams of its imagination. 



Percy Bysshe Shelley afforded a melancholy proof 

 that profound learning, exquisite fancy, unlimited 

 imagination and fascinating accomplishments cannot 

 prevent a man from becoming an outcast of society, 

 a mark for the arrows of ignominy and the fearful 

 victim of his own thoughts, pursuing " like raging 

 hounds their father and their prey ; " if his writings 



