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No. VIL 

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SEPTEMBER, 

MONTHLY MAGAZINE, 


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-ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
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To the Editor of ihe Monthly Magazine. 
STR, - gee 2 : 
GUI correfpondent, who. ‘has with 
fuch very fuperior merit tranflated 
the Leonora of BiirGEeR, is miltaken 
when he ealls that ballad wholly original, 
He has obferved that many of th ‘ballads 
ofthe gloomy German are tranflated with 
improvements from Englith originals.— 
Perhaps the ftory of (Leonora was fug- 
gefted by a ballad entitled, “ The Sufols 
Miracle, or a relation of a Young Man, who 
a month afiex bis death appeared 10 his 
fweetbeart, and carried ber on horfeback 
ochind bim for forty mules, in two hour's, 
and was never feen after but in his gravev’ 
dt is inva collection of ballads, printed 
1723. The collection extended ee 
‘yolumes, cach publithed feparately, and 
is now very rare. In this! tale the {pirit 
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comes at midnight; and the maiden dex 
parts with him. 
When fhe was got her love behind, 
They pafs'd as {veift as any wind, 
That im two hours, or litt Bmore & 
He brought her to her father’s door. 3 
But as they did this great hafte make, 
He did complain his head did ache, 
Her handkerchief fhe then took out, 
And tyed the fame his head about. 
And unto him fhe thus did fay, 
“¢-Thou art as cold as any Clay-!_ 
:, *¢ When we come home a fire bis have,’ 
- Butlittle drcamd he went to grave | 

As Biirger is well verfed in this bravich 
of Englifh poetry, it is not improbable 
that this rude but firiking talé may have 
occafioned the fublime ballad of Leonora. 
However this may be,-it certainly -con- 
tradiéts a remark that has. not unaptly 
been made upon that Poem, that the dif- 
aprons between a German ghoft and an 
glifh one is, that the German rides on 
horfeback, and the, Englith one goes on. 
foot. 
 Menzrury Mac, No. VIII. 
day's fail frees gy pt, or from the mouth 
The imitation of the following lines 
from “ William’s Ghoft’”’, is, I think 
manifeft. Thefe are the lines of Leonora : 
‘© And where is then thy houfe and home; 
Wee And where thy bridal bed”? 
ef Tis narrows filent; chilly, dark, 
* Far hence ¥ reit my head. 
“* Andis there any room for me, 
‘© Wherein that | may creep 377 + 
*f ‘There’s room enough for thee and me, 
‘< Wherein that we may fleep.’’ 
Compare them with thefe of the Ex 
glith ballad : y 
Now the has kilted her robes of greeny” 
A piece below her knee, 
#nd athe hve-long winter night 
The dead corpfe followed fhe. 
*¢ Is there any room at your head, Willie? 
“ Owany at-yourfeet? 
“¢ Or ahy rooin at your fide, Willie, » 
‘* Wherein that I may creep 3”? 
athe = § K * : f 
(+ & There’s no room at my head, Margaret, 
4 ere room at my feet; ” 
‘« ‘There’s no room at my fide, Margaret, 
“* “My coilin is made fo meet.” 
Leonora is in parts equal to any com- 
pofitton I have ever read. The moral 
however is vefty exceptiotiable, and they 
who may abhor the vindiétive juftice of 
God, will think the punifhment of Leo- 
nota exceeds her offence. ‘The other 
ballad of the Parfon’s. Davehter is, in 
my opinion, fuperior. “The abruptnefs 
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eof the beginning, and the recurrence tq 
‘it at the end are unequalied;. ; 
Sept:.3, ao6; . = B, 
Lo ibe Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SER, F ue 
Ge my remarks of the {ymptoms of 
Page 96, of your Magazine, I with the 
following to be added, 7 
mer tells us that the ifland Pharos was a 
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