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tainly one of the molt ingenious, learned; 
and ftudicus men of that age, yet he did 
not wholly efcape the cenfures of criticifm. 
Urceus Codrus, the learned Profeffor of _ 
Bologna, complained, that Aldo fuffered 
many errors to efcape uncorrected, in his 
editions of the Greek authors ; that be 
fold his copies too dear 3 and printed them 
with an u’elefs and unfuitable width of 
margin. Later critics have not been {par- 
ing of remarks fomewhat fimilar. Er- 
nefti, in his notes on the Letters of Pliny, 
blames Aldo for exceffive boldnefs of con- 
jectural criticifm. Inthe Preface to his 
Tacitus, the famecritic remarks, that Al. 
do rarely made on the fecond and fubfe- 
quent editions of the works he printed, 
any alterations, but fuch as confifted in 
neglected errors of the prefs. It is indeed 
true, that the editions of Greek works 
Original Povtry. 
ASS 
printed by Aldo, ave not always fo cor: 
rect as his Latin and Ltahan edition’: 
But their defegts aré owing to the difad= 
vantages of Aldo’s fituation, much 1a 
ther than to negligente, or inability ia 
himfelf, as a printer and a man of letiers. 
He had not always a fufficient nuniber of 
manufcripts to collate: =+he could nat 
have the benefit of the judgment of a fof: 
ficient number of the learned upon the dif= 
ficulties which occurred to him. AfteP 
beginning to print any particular Work, 
he often had not Jeifure to paule for a fuf= 
ficient length of time, over the difhéultieg 
occurring in the progrefs of thé editions 
Aldo might, in fome inftances, alfo, print 
a manuf{cript which he did not approves 
left it thould otherwife have béen ick t@ 
potterity. = 
ORIGINAL POETRY. 
ON THE EOLIAN HARP. 
W/HILE beneath the moon’s dim ray, 
Vaves in peace the filent grove; 
What founds along ahe valley play! 
Thefe fairy firings what fingers move ! 
Wak'd by breath of vernal breezes, 
Swell on high the magic notes 3 
Ever varying, {till it pleafes, 
While on air the mufic floats. 
Where the moonbéam trembling lights, 
Shining on the fylphic ring, 
Move quick or flow, the airy fprites, 
With the wildly founding firing. 
When touched by ruder gales, the lyre 
Majeftic founds in tones fublime ; 
While Fancy, warm’d with kindred fire, 
Looks back cn deeds of ancient time 3 
Glowifig with the martial found, 
I long for glory to engage ; 
To deal the deadly blow around, 
With heroes of a former age. 
But, lo! the ftrains fo folemn, flow, - 
Seem like the dirges of the flain! 
Sudden change my warmth to woe, 
And bring refle€tion’s fober trains 
And now, by fofter breath infpir’d, 
The broken murmurs falter love, 
And call to fcenes of peace retir’d, 
Hefperia’s Bower, Arcadia’s Groves 
Such was the wildly varying fong, 
That fill’d the echoing hall of old; | 
When Offian charm’d the lift’ning throng 
Of blue-ey’d maids end chieftains beld; 
Such founds fweet Melancholy loaves, 
As near the lonely tower fhe tréads 5 
While wrapt in thought the flowly moves 
And hears them rife amid the g!ades; 
Such, in Imagination’s éat, 
_ Would be the wild melodious ftfainy 
Did fhe, t? excite the pleafing teats 
In foft and mournful notes complain: 
Over my melting bofum pour’d, 
Emotions fad, yet foothing rifey 
As deep and low the note is heard; 
Or quivering in the gale it diés; 
Thus all human erandéur flies; e 
Proud with the fong of publi€é praifé j 
With paffing breath the ftrains arifes 
But with thé breath the feng decays, 
Great Trinity Laney B: F: 
“April oth. 
Se hp hs eae eats 
ON THE SPARTANS WHO FELL AT 
THERMOPYLZE. 
FROM THE GREEK OF SIMONIDSS, 
(THE Patriots’ early dcom was bleft; 
Who fell by Perfia’s hate oppreft j 
And holy is their tomb : 
While memory lafts, it fhall retnaifig 
The reverence of an altar gain, 
And brave Oblivion’s glooiis 
Decay their honours ftill thail {pare, 
And Time, that all things does irtpait j 
Nor Sorrow weep their fall: 
But Greece with pride her glories tell; 
That here her dearet children felly 
- Obedient to her call, Shy 
Hie. H 
‘ON 
