_ 1799.) 
: 
different genius of poetry and painting, and 
that what may pleafe in the former, may 
give difgaft if reprefented by the latter. 
it is indeed true, that many images really 
fublime or beautiful in poetry, cannot be 
transferred to painting; but the caufe of 
this feems to be, the much more confined 
{cope and range of the latter art, and e{pe- 
cially its inability to reprefent motion, or 
progrefiive change. it is likewile incapa- 
ble of giving adequate ideas of vaft magni- 
tude; and of that indefinite form and out- 
line, which frequently is a ftriking circum- 
ftance in vifions of the fancy. Yet when 
a figure is attempted to be diftin@lly drawn, 
witn determinate lineaments, refeinbled to 
known objeéts, I cannot but think, that the 
effect produced by transferring thefe ideas 
to the canvafs is, on the whole, a proper 
teft of their accuracy and confiitency.: 
Images that will not bear this proof, will, 
in general, as little bear the (ober examina- 
tion ofa mind accultomed to reflexion ; and 
this, in faé&, is the reaton why monttrous 
and extravagant conceptions in poetry do 
not long retain their value, but are difcarded 
with the other amufements of puerility. 
Statius gives a fight fketch of Fame fly- 
ng before the chariot of the God of War, 
New ‘Bones. in Hand. 
553 
breathed on by his fteeds, and tirged by 
the whip of the charioteer, and the {pear of - 
the god himfelf, to utter falfe and true re- 
ports. (Theb. iii. 425.) 
Ovid, in perfonitying Fame, has atq— 
tempted no defcription of the being her 
felf, but has employed much fancy in de- 
feribing her palace or manfion, fituated 
between heaven and earth, and properly 
fitted up tobe the receptacle of rumours of 
all kinds, which are thence tranimitted 
with every mixture and aggravation. 
(Metam. xii.) eae 
It is obfervable, that, in all thefe ine 
ftances, by the Latin word fama is meant 
what we call rumour or common fame, ra- 
ther than celebrity. Pope does not feerm 
to have been {utiiciently attentive to this 
circumitance, when, in his very poetical 
Temple of Fame, after he bas. been employ - 
ing the term im the modern, not in the an 
cient, fenle, he yet copies the old mytholo- | 
gical def{cription of the form of the gaddefs, 
with her thoufand tongues, eyes and ears, 
This is the more improper, as inthe latter 
part of his allegory, the {cene is changed 
to the proper boufe of Rumour, or of the 
Fame of Ovid. el fee 
[To be continued] 
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LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL; 
Jucluding Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
** Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
' R. WALKER, of Dublin, is em- 
ployed upon an ‘“ Effay ca the 
Revival of the Drama, in Italy.’ To 
this he means to fubjoin a fupplement 
to his memoir, containing verions of 
fuch of the {pecimens as are not already 
tranflated, together with corrections: and 
additions to the memoir. The whole will 
be printed upon the fame paper and in the 
fame'type as the memoir, that it may be 
bound up with, or bound to match it. 
The fecond and concluding volume - of 
Mr. Neuman’s Tranflation of <“* the 
Duke pe La RocwEroucavuLy® Lian- 
couRtT’s Travels in North America,” is 
in the prefs, and will be publifhed early 
in September. | This part which thes 
recentiy been publifhed at Paris, contains 
his Tour through the States of New York, 
the Jerfeys, Penlylvania, Maryland and 
Virginia, with original maps, ftatiftical 
tables, &c. and pertects the most intereft- 
ing and authentic account which has ever 
appeared of North America, 
, er 
Dr. Bai,uie will very foon publith the 
fecond fafciculus of a feries.of engfavings, 
accompanied with explanations, which are 
intended to illuftrate the morbid anatomy 
of fome of the moft important parts of che 
human body; this tafciculus compre- 
hending the chief morbid appearances of 
the lungs, and of the parts intimately con- 
neéted with them, 
Sonnrnir’s Travels in Upper and 
Lowver Egypt,” are announced for publica- 
tion ia London. ‘This work cannot fail 
to excite a general intereft' throughout 
France, not only on account of the well 
known abilities of the author, but from 
the circumftance of his having penetrated 
farther into Upper Egypt than any other 
European traveller; while his local know- 
ledge of, and long refidence in, a country 
fo. unperfectly known, have enabled lim 
to throw new light on the celebrated ex- 
pedition of Buonaparte. 
Mr. BENSLEY is Now printing, in a 
very fuperior manner, .‘* The Wreath,” 
compoled 
