260 
TUE QUEEN, TO LORD CARRYLLF. 
En Suisse, Baden, le 12 Juillet, 1784. 
Vousserez fortetonné, mon cher Lord, 
quand vous scaurez que je suis ici pour 
prendre les bains, et que j’ai comencé 
avec profit depuis 8 jours, Je ne sais si 
jé vous ai mandé que le Roy de Suede 
mnfavoitaccomodé avecle Roy. Nous voila 
separés de bon accord! On dit que sa 
snnté est meilleure; le chaud lui fait du 
bien. Si vous voulez aller chez Mr. de 
Original Poetry. 
[Oect. 1, 
Rongemont, 11 vous remettra les 10@ 
louis de ma part. J& ne peux vous écrire 
que peu de mots; carles Bains mm’affoiblis- 
sent extremement la téte. . Adieu, mon 
cher Lord. Conservez moi votre amitié; 
comptez sur la mienne, et avez soin de 
vous. Je compts retourner a Rome pour 
Vhiver. Adieu,mon cher Lord. Comptez. 
a jamais que je seral votre amie, 
Loutsr C. D’pALBANI, 
ORIGINAL POETRY. 
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TRANSLATIONS FROM THE SIXTH BOOK 
OF VIRGIL’S ©NEID. 
[In the following translations [ have selected 
only the most important and striking tea- 
tures of this mest nobie portion of the po- 
em. My aim has been to preserve the 
strictest fidelity consistent with ree versi- 
fication. The only apology tobe offered 
for the repetition of what has been so often 
done before, is an opinion I have .always 
maintained, that the most excellent model 
of ancient poetry cannet be too often made 
the subjects of imitation; and this, not 
merely on account of the writer (whose 
style cannot but be improved, and imagina- 
tion corrected, by the study of such ex- 
amples), but of the reader also. For it is 
vain to suppose that any translation, how- 
ever true, and however animated, can give 
a just idea of every beauty in the original. 
Some passages will always be rendered lan- 
guidly, some injudiciously, some carelessly, 
and it is only by combining and putting to- 
gether the parts that have been best per- 
formed by various translators, that there is 
any chance of enjoying our author as we 
ought. : 
Every fresh copy has therefore a fair pro- 
spect of exciting pleasure both in the learned 
and unlearned reader. The former will, 
probably, find some favourite thought or 
expression of the original more happily 
transfused into his own language than he 
had ever seen it before. The latter will, 
perhaps, hail some beauty which will ap- 
pear to him with-all the advantage of no- 
velty, and will thus receive a more perfect 
idea of that, to the understanding of which 
he can only attain through a reflected me- 
dium. To have placed myseli in competi- 
tion with Dryden in one of the most suc- 
sessful efforts of his exalted genius, would 
jastly have exposed me to the censure and 
ridicule. of the world. But, when it is 
understood that, far from having any such 
arrogant design, my end will be fully an- 
swered if lam found to have given a single 
$entence or expression of the auther (which 
it is possible my great predecessor may have 
misunderstood, or overlooked, or too hastily 
and carelessly rendered) better, than it had 
ever been done before, it is to he hoped 
that no reproach will be affixed to my per- 
formance on the score of uvver-weening va< 
nity. EMMELCES.] 
THE ENTRANCE INTO HELL. 
(From v. 268 to 330.) 
low, 
Through Pluto’s empty palaces they go, 
(The dreary realms of unsubstantial shade) 
As one, who travels through some forest 
glade, 
When the uncertain moon, in vapours bound, 
Sheds faint malignant gleams on all around, 
When Jove has veil’d in shadowy clouds the 
light, 
And shape and colour fade in undistinguish’d 
night. Ps 
Before the porch, and in the jaws of Hell, 
Avenging Cares and weeping Sorrows dwell, 
And pale Disease, and (he whom none ese 
ALONE, amidst the gloom of night be-- 
cape ps 
Cheerless Old-Age, and Hunger’s meagre 
shape, age a 
And shivering Fear, and Want, obscene to 
view, 
And Death and Labour join the ghastly 
crew. 
Then Sicep (Death’s brother), and the Mind’s. 
bad Joys, ik 
‘And deadly War’s unhallow’d imagerrise ; 
"There are the Furies’ iron beds, and there 
Wild Discord bathes in blood her snaky hair. 
There, in the midst, an elm, opake and 
wide, . 
Stretches its mighty arms on every side 5 
Amidst its boughs vain Dreams are said te, 
rest, ; ; 
And build inevery leaf their airy nests , 
All these, and more, throng round the 
gates of hell. 
Here Centaurs stable, here the Scyllas dwell, 
Here Briareus extends his hundred hands, 
Aad here the many- headed Hydra stands, 
Chimera — 
a a a i 
