1821.] 



Novelties of Foreign Literature. 



LINKS dif the I!ON. GKORGK TUCKER, 



©/VIRGINIA, from nnAinerican paper. 

 Days of my joiith ! you have glided away ; 

 Hairs of my youth ! ye are frosted and ^rey ; 

 Eyes of my youth ! your keen sight is no 



more ; 

 Cheeks of my youth ! ye are furrow'd nil 



o'er; 

 Strength of my youth I all your vigour is 



gone ; 

 , Thoughts of my youth ! your gay visions are 



flown ; 

 Days of my youth I I wish notyour recal ; 

 Hairs of mv youth! I'm content you should 



f;ill; 

 Eyes of my youth ! ye much evil have seen; 

 Cheeks of ni)' youth I bath'd in tears have 



you been ; 

 Tlioughts of my youth ! ye -have led me 



astray ; 

 Strength of my youth 1 why lament your 



decay ? 



Jl$> 



Days of my age ! ye will shortly be past ; 

 Pains of my age ! yet awhile can ye last-, 

 J03S of mv age ! in true wisdom delight; 

 Eyes of my age ! be religion your light ; 

 'I'boughts of my age ! drend not the cold sod ; 

 Hopes of my age ! be ye fi.x'd on your God .' 

 PROMOTION AT COURT. 



The Diike of Grammont entered one 

 flay the closet of Cardinal Mazarine 

 without beinjr announced. His Emi- 

 nence was amusing himself by jump- 

 ing cross-legged against the ivall, A 

 less skilful courtier might liave stam- 

 mered excuses and retired ; but the 

 Duke entered briskly, and cried, " I'll 

 bet 100 crowns that i jump higher than 

 your Eminence;*' and the Duke and 

 Cardinal began fo jump together. 

 Grammont took care to jump a few 

 inches lower than the Cardinal ; and 

 was, six months afterwards, made 

 Marshiil of France. 



NOVELTIES OF FOREIGX LITERATURE. 



LETTERS from AFRICA, by SIGNOR 

 TRAVIDEANi or AVEIRO to CANOVA, 



the Sculptor. 



Palmyra, Dec. 17, ISIS. 



MAKING but a short stay at Grand 

 Cairo, I embarked in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Babylonia, and turning 

 away from Rhodes proud of its Niloiiif- 

 ter,I found running upwards, Cimopolis, 

 and the city that calls to remembrance 

 the depraved licentiousness of Adriiin, 

 the Lower Abydos, Licopolis, and many 

 otiier places not mentioned with tis. 



The picturesque prospect of a thou- 

 sand cavities called to my mind the 

 anchorites of Thebes. 



Following the well-employed journey 

 I observed A bods, Arro!litopho])olis, 

 and Tentea, where, in tlie temple of Isis, 

 1 tasted with wonder the Egyptian 

 Iwirning ; and, turning towards the op- 

 posite shore I passed by (^oenas, and 

 Apoliinopolis minor; reviewing near 

 thereto the city of the Ilunilred Gates. 



Here is Carnak with its boundless 

 walks of ijphinxes, the Propylaon, por- 

 licoesof granite, tlic conrts,the squares, 

 and tile temple, with eighteen ranks of 

 colinnns hieroglyphically sculptured, 

 the circumference of whidi seven men 

 hardly span witii their arms. 



Luxor with its obelisks and innume- 

 rable colonnades. 



Behold Mcdinet-Abu covered with 

 endless ruins, and with the monstrous 

 colossus (hat saluted (he appearance of 

 the king of the star*, and still shadows 

 the Theban plain, 



Follow and behold Kowm, where the 

 scat of Memnon makes a rich display ; 

 and the bright image of the great Se- 

 sostris. 



But the fonibs of these subterranean 

 abodes, that which an Italian, Giovanni 

 Belzoni, o]>ened last year, under the 

 atis])ices of Mr. Salt, consul-general of 

 England in Egypt, feeds the doubt, 

 whether it is the prodtiction of a mortal 

 hand. 



The interior is entered through an 

 ample gate, when a ptith with walls 

 boautifullysculptured, leads to galleries 

 still more betiutiful, by the side of 

 which are the royal rooms, wliirh pre- 

 serve in dift'iise painting the Egyptian 

 mysteries, and the diflerent nations first 

 known. The sanctuary of Isis capti- 

 vates both the eye and the mind. 



Then a catacomb of alabaster adorn- 

 e.l with Iiierogliphics, both externally 

 and internally, rises in the centre of the 

 greater wing, which alone might enrich, 

 and give reputation to a museum. \Fhy 

 were not you with me in that hour when 

 I found in the great Thebes the whole 

 world ? 



Having so opportune a motive, I di- 

 recteil to you from thence a letter. 

 Tearing myself away as it were by force 

 from the divine Ilecatompylos, I passed 

 Armunfis,Crocodilopolis, Latopolis and 

 Apoliinopolis mtijor, saluting after- 

 wards amongst its pleasing hills the 

 remote Syene. 



Having visited the temples of that 



frontier, and the well that was the 



looking-glass 



