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No. 214.] > JULY 
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As long as thefe who write are ambitious of making Converts, and of giving ‘their Opinions a Maximum of 
Influence and Celebrity, the moft extenfively circulated Mifcellany will repay with the greatck #efect the 
Curiofity of thofe who read either for Amufement or Infruction, JOHNSON, 
THE SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER. 
Hitherto our Supplementary Number has been partly occupied with imperfect. criticaé 
accounts of current English literature, confessedly and necessurily compiled from 
~ those fallible, partial, and corrupt mediums, the periodical anonymous Reviews, 
aided by occasional originality ; in future, however, it is. proposed, to substitute in 
place of those wholesale criticisms, tateresting characteristic extracts from the prin= 
cipel works published within the half year, adapted at once to gratify our readers, 
to qualify them to judge of every work for themselves, and to stimulate them to pura 
chase those possessed of evident merit. 
Fhe Supplement published on the first of - 
August, will be compiled on this plan ; and, to assist our design, we shall feel oure 
selves obliged ‘6 authors and publishers, who will accommodate us with the loan. of 
books published between Michaelmas and Lady-day last, 
Prmtico, May 8, 1811. 
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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
MANUSCRIPTS in the IMPERIAL LIBRARY 
at PARIS. 
URING the short peace of 1801-2, 
the editor of the Monthly Maga- 
zine made arrangements for presenting 
to his readers, extracts from the curious 
historical’ manuscripts contained in the 
National Library at Paris, particularly 
from those relating to English affairs. 
The revolution and its wars, having been 
the means of bringing together these in- 
teresting remains, from public and -pri« 
vate. collections, and religious houses in 
every part of France, Flanders, and 
Italy, such extracts could not have failed 
to prove interesting to the public; but 
the friendly relations of tle two countries 
having been so unexpectedly interrupted, 
thes plan was arrested, and the only 
papers received by the editor were the 
following: L buf 
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A PAPER FOUND IN THE TOMB OF LAURA) 
WHEN OPENED BY ORDER OF FRANCISI, 
AT AVIGNON, ‘ 
UI riposan quei caste & felicia ossa 
© Di quell alma gentile, & soia in terram 
Aspro & dur sasso hor ben tero hai sotterra 
E’l vero honor, la‘fama & belta scosse 
Morte ba del verde Lauro suelta & mobssa 
Fresca raduce, e il premio di mia guerra 4 
Di quattre lustrie pia—s’ancor non era 
Mio pensier tristo—e’l chiude in poca 
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, mee pianta in borgo d” Avignoneg 
acque & mori: & qui con ella giace 
_Lapenna, e'lstil, ” inchiostro & Ja ragiont== 
~~ Moxtury Mas, No, 214, 
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O delicati membri, 6 viva-a face, 
C’h’ ancor mi cuoggi & struggimin genci 
chione ; 
Ciascun preghi il Signor t’ auetti in Paces 
Mortal bellega indarno si suspira— 
Volma beata in ciel vivra in-eterno—- 
Pianga el pute e il futur secul priva ; 
D’ una tal luce: & io de-gli-occhi éil tempos 
TRANSLATION, 
HERE do the pure and chaste remains ree 
pose, - 
Of her who shone unequatled on the earth 
Stone hard and cruel, how dost’ thou inclose 
True honour, virtue, beauty, fame, and 
worth ! ; ¢ 
Death, murd’rous death, has nipp’d the 
sweetest plant, : 
The blooming Laura, cause of all my 
sighs. ' ; 
For twenty years and longer would she haunt 
My melancholy thoughts; but now she 
lies, © 
The prey of death, deep in the hollow fomb ! 
She lived, she died 5 and now like’ het una 
seen, i 
Wit, genius, eloquence, all share her doom. * 
Oh! charms divine! Oh! sad remembrance 
keen,‘ ; 
That: still consumes my. mind, by sorrow 
torn! : 
May heaven in peace receive her aainted 
soul! 
In vain for mertal beauty do we mourn— 
There shall she live, while years eternal 
roll. ; 
Yet while in‘tears our woes find some relief, 
Ages to come, shall envy us our grief, 
Ve weep a loss our sons can:never know : 
ever can exist again so just a cause of woe, 
if. 
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