662 
He adds, while alluding to the ten 
dernefs of his nature: 
s¢ Jl favoit appliquer, par un myftique 
charme, 
‘ Aux bleffures 
larme.” 
In his odes he is lefs fortunate, both 
in refpect to the ftyle and fubject. In 
_one of them, addrefled to the prefent 
King of Denmark, on his vifiting 
France, he addreffles a monarch but 
little famed for his wifdom, as follows: 
*€ O yous qui commencez comme finitAu- 
guite.”? 
In his epiftle to the celebrated M. 
Condorcet, on the alliance between 
philofophy and poetry, he exprefles 
du ceur le baume d’uhe 
- 
himfelf thus: 
*€ Le Scythe Anacharfis et le fage Solon 
Ont du charme des vers embelli la morales 
Sceur de la‘ Poéfie; et non pas sa rivale, 
L’augufte Vérité dont tu défends les droits 
Des atours de Ja fable eut befoin autrefois. 
Mais Vune enfin des ans a reffenti Vinjure, 
L’autre s’offre 4 nos yeux comme une vierge 
pure.” 
*° Les Poeétes Lyriqties, Odes par 
G. B. Tx. Ferry, Profefleur de Phy- 
fique et de Chimie, etc. lue par l?Auteur 
au Lycée Republicain, le 18 Germinal 
an 10. Paris, br. 8°"—-TheLyric Poets, 
an Ode; by G.B. Tu. Ferry, Pro- 
feffor, &c. . . 
Citizen Ferry, although a naturalift 
and a chemift, has not difdained to cul- 
tivate poetry and to praife the lyric 
bards of France, in theirown language. 
After enumerating all thofe who have 
#xcelled in ode-writing, fromthe days 
of AJlczus to more modern times, fuch 
as Pindar, Anacreon, Horace, Mal- 
herbe, and J.B. Rouffeau, he makes 
mention of Lebrun, and all thofe living 
authors, who are re{pected for their ex- 
cellence in this {pecies of compofition. 
The following is a copy of the ftrophe 
dedicated to Sappho: © 
De Phaon malheureufe amante, 
Ta voix a pénétré mon ceur: 
Je fens de ton ame brulante / 
Et l’efpérance et la douleur : ef 
Tour-a-tour, je hais le perfide, 
Je lui pardonne; une Euménide 
A ma voix vient le déchirer 5 
Sapho, modéle de tendreffe, 
"Tes maux firent pleurer la Grece, 
Tes vers t’y firent admirer. 
¢ Les Miracles, Conte dévot ; qua- 
trieme Edition, augmentée du Maitre 
Italien, &c.”—-The Miracles, a devout 
Retrofpe? of French Literatuve--Poetrye 
tale, to which is added the Ttaliag? 
Matter. ia 
Several of the French Journalifts, and 
all the Devotees of Paris have written 
and talked againft this fatire upon mo- 
dern miracles, which, however, has 
now attained a fourth editiod. The 
«*Maitre Italien,’’ prefented to the pub- 
-lic for the firft time, is not deficient in 
point. .An emigrant knight, born at 
Nerac, on the banks of the Garonne, 
having retired to Lunebourg, a little 
town in Germany, endeavoured to fup- 
ort himfelf by his wits, and accord- 
"ingly conceived the idea of teaching 
Italian to the natives, although he hime 
felf was entirely ignorant of this lan- 
guage. No fooner were his intentions 
made public than all the barons and 
baroneffes in the neighbourhood flock- 
ed around the chevalier, on purpofe to 
learn Gafcox, which he affected to fpeak 
after the Tufcan manner. - 
When the principal inhabitants had 
made a confiderable progrefs in their 
ftudies, a Roman Banker,who had been 
driven from his native country on ac- 
count of his attachment to: liberty, 
arrives. +09 1 
<s Le voyageur déteftait ces pontifes 
Tyrans cagots, plus rois que les Cefars; © 
Il méprifaic leurs dogmes apocryphes ; 
Lettré d’ailleurs, et grand ami des artsy 
Fier ennemi du pouvoir arbitraire, 
Toujours fidéle et cher & fon parti; 
Eftimé, craint dans le parti contraire : 
On le nommait fignor Aliberti.” 
“* Having learned at.a neighbouring 
village that all the people of Lune- 
bourg were ftudying the language of 
his native country, he repairs thither 
inftantly, and addrefles himfelf to the 
noble Germans, whom he found affem- 
bled on the public walk, in the lan- 
guage of Talk . No one, however, un- 
derftood a fingle word that he uttered, 
and the new {fchool-mafter having ar- 
rived amidft the confufion, the eyes of 
every one were fixed upon him. With- 
out betraying-the leaft refemblance to a 
bluth,he immediately exclaimed that the 
perfonage now before them was an im- 
poftor; for,inftead of being a Roman, he 
was no other than a French Jacobin, 
and that the language he now talked 
was not Italian, but Gatcon! 
«¢ Le maitre parle, et foudain grand filence. 
Cet étranger n’a pas le regard bon; _ 
Vous le prenez pour un fauvage ? Non, 
Non: c’eft plutét un Jacobin, je penfe; 
J] et venu par la route de France, 
Et je cieis'bien qu'il a parlé Gafcon. 
= Gafcon 
