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which , in winter , is very deep and rapid , and was destitute , until lately , both of bridge and ferry-boat . A buffalo was therefore employed , to carry over the weekly courier and his mail ; and learned its business ' so well , that every week it quitted the pasture , appeared at the river side upon the day and hour when the courier usually arrived , suffered the portmanteau to be placed upon its back , and , when that was not too heavy , gave the like pemi , sion to the man ; but when the portmanteau was too vyei gh ty , it pushed the courier away
with its horns , upon his offering to mount , swam across the river , s'llFered the mail to be taken off , and returned to fetch the courier . It continued this employment during several years ; and its death , which happened lately , at a very advanced age , was a most important ev £ nt in the province . It is to be lamented , that no greater advantage is made of these beasts , whose little estimation here is sufficiently testified by the low price they bear ; a buffalo not fetching more than from fifteen to twenty ducats ( from al . 16 s . 3 d . to
3 I . 15 s . )' Upon the whole , these Travels abound in materials for the reflection of the classical scholar , the naturalist , the agriculturalist , and the statesman . To the King of Naples the observations are more particularly interesting ; as they relate principally to the inhabitants of that kingdom . The translation , though faithful , is not very elegant .
Poems on various Subjefls , b y S . T . Coleridge , late of Jesus College , Cambridge . Pages 188 . Price $ s . Robinsons . FROM the proofs which Mr . Coleridge has already given of considerable talents for Eloquence , in his Condones ad Populum , it was . to bs expected , that he would be qualified to exercise , with success , the kindred art of Poetry ; and the perusal of this small volume will justify the expectation . He
certainly possesses a fine invention , and a lively imagination ; and his Poems g low with that ardour of passion , that enthusiastic love of liberty , which give energy to poetic composition , and compel the reader into immediate admiration . The collection consists of Sonnets , ( which , however , Mr . C . calls Effusions—a Monody on the Death of Chatterton , —Verses on various Occasions , —and what the author entitles Reli gious Musings . _ The Effusions , in general , are extremely beautiful ; and many of the lesser
pieces must be ranked in the first class . The superior excellence which characterises Mr . Coleridge ' s Poems , compels us to wish that they possessed that uniform correctness of versification , which frequentl y accompanies productions of far inferior merit : but Mr . C . ' s blemishes are such as are incident to young men of luxuriant imaginations , which time and experience will , we doubt not , enable him to correct . His beauties are those of a very superior genius : —a richer line than the last of the three following we scarcely ever remember
reading' 0 aged Women ! ye who weekly catch Tlie morsel tossed by law-forc'd Charity , And die so slowly , that none call it murder . " The Monody addressed to Chatterton possesses many beautiful passages ; but that irregular species of versification , in which it is written , is not , in our judgment , consistent with the laws of Poetry . We must also observe , that we frequently meet , in these Poems , with expressions which , however pleasing in Spenser and Shakspeare , accord not with the present state of the English language . The liberty , too , of coining new words , which Mr . C . sometimes uses , and the impetuosity of his imagination , hurry him into what
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Review Of New Publications.
which , in winter , is very deep and rapid , and was destitute , until lately , both of bridge and ferry-boat . A buffalo was therefore employed , to carry over the weekly courier and his mail ; and learned its business ' so well , that every week it quitted the pasture , appeared at the river side upon the day and hour when the courier usually arrived , suffered the portmanteau to be placed upon its back , and , when that was not too heavy , gave the like pemi , sion to the man ; but when the portmanteau was too vyei gh ty , it pushed the courier away
with its horns , upon his offering to mount , swam across the river , s'llFered the mail to be taken off , and returned to fetch the courier . It continued this employment during several years ; and its death , which happened lately , at a very advanced age , was a most important ev £ nt in the province . It is to be lamented , that no greater advantage is made of these beasts , whose little estimation here is sufficiently testified by the low price they bear ; a buffalo not fetching more than from fifteen to twenty ducats ( from al . 16 s . 3 d . to
3 I . 15 s . )' Upon the whole , these Travels abound in materials for the reflection of the classical scholar , the naturalist , the agriculturalist , and the statesman . To the King of Naples the observations are more particularly interesting ; as they relate principally to the inhabitants of that kingdom . The translation , though faithful , is not very elegant .
Poems on various Subjefls , b y S . T . Coleridge , late of Jesus College , Cambridge . Pages 188 . Price $ s . Robinsons . FROM the proofs which Mr . Coleridge has already given of considerable talents for Eloquence , in his Condones ad Populum , it was . to bs expected , that he would be qualified to exercise , with success , the kindred art of Poetry ; and the perusal of this small volume will justify the expectation . He
certainly possesses a fine invention , and a lively imagination ; and his Poems g low with that ardour of passion , that enthusiastic love of liberty , which give energy to poetic composition , and compel the reader into immediate admiration . The collection consists of Sonnets , ( which , however , Mr . C . calls Effusions—a Monody on the Death of Chatterton , —Verses on various Occasions , —and what the author entitles Reli gious Musings . _ The Effusions , in general , are extremely beautiful ; and many of the lesser
pieces must be ranked in the first class . The superior excellence which characterises Mr . Coleridge ' s Poems , compels us to wish that they possessed that uniform correctness of versification , which frequentl y accompanies productions of far inferior merit : but Mr . C . ' s blemishes are such as are incident to young men of luxuriant imaginations , which time and experience will , we doubt not , enable him to correct . His beauties are those of a very superior genius : —a richer line than the last of the three following we scarcely ever remember
reading' 0 aged Women ! ye who weekly catch Tlie morsel tossed by law-forc'd Charity , And die so slowly , that none call it murder . " The Monody addressed to Chatterton possesses many beautiful passages ; but that irregular species of versification , in which it is written , is not , in our judgment , consistent with the laws of Poetry . We must also observe , that we frequently meet , in these Poems , with expressions which , however pleasing in Spenser and Shakspeare , accord not with the present state of the English language . The liberty , too , of coining new words , which Mr . C . sometimes uses , and the impetuosity of his imagination , hurry him into what