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of death , which wielding a dart against her , she sinks down and dies . Notning more terrible than this can be conceived . Nor is the moral , in our opinion , bad or useless . The despair of Leonora is not the despair of a pious mind ; it is such as defies heaven and disdains mercy ; and , though her punishment p death , the reader is left to suppose that all severity will terminate . — " Des leibes hist du ledig " Gott sey der Seele gnadig !
" Here oh earth thy days are past 3 " Mercy to thy soul be given ! PYE . This is the exclamation of the beings that howl at her death . The first translation of Mr . Stanley was very defective , both in . versification And polish . The corrected and altered edition is much amended , in these respects ; but we think the alteration of the catastrophe of the story , has entirely spoiled it .
Mr . Pye ' s translation , notwithstanding his great poetical talents , has not the ease or force , which sucfi a performance requires . His attempts to follow the ^ origmal , and translate de Verba , has produced a stiffness , which , throughout , distinguishes it from original writing . Mr . Spencer ' s version does , perhaps , with sufficient felicity imitate the merits of the German poem , and supports the English style with great appearance of originality . The elegant designs of Lady Diana Beaiiclerc , full of
genius and effect , and marked by propriety , decorum , and grace , engraved by Harding and Bartalozzi , strongly recommend it to those who can indulge their taste at such a price . The figures of this artist-which are of a preternatural kind , form a striking contrast to the monsters exhibited in the front of Mr . Stanley's last edition . Our readers may be pleased with the short account of Burger , which Mr . Spencer has given in his preface .
' The works of Mr . Burger , the author of this and many other Poeirjs of the ballad kind , are universally esteemed , wherever the German language prevails as a national idiom , or is cultivated as a branch of education . Simplicity is the characteristic of his compositions ; and , of all literary beauties , simplicity must be the most , generally attractive . No writer , perhaps , lias ever obtained a more decided popularity . To this his subjects and his language equally contribute ; for the former he has mostly chosen local traditions
or legendary anecdotes ; and , in the latter , he is generally elegant , often sublime , and never unintelligible . One of the most powerful causes of Mr . Burger ' s literary popularity , is the deep tinge of superstition that shades almost all his compositions . Supernatural incidents are the darling objefts of his countrymen . Their minds vigorously conceive , and their language nobl y expresses , the terrible and majestic ; and it must be allowed that , in this species of writing , they would force from our nation the palm of excellence , were it not-secured by the impregnable tOAvers of Otranto . '
Poetic Effusions : pastoral , moral , amatory , and descriptive , By William - Perfect , M . D . izmo ' . Pages 160 . Price 2 s . ( yd , To the pastoral part of these Poetic Effusions , the following preface is prefixed by the Editor , which contains a very just critique on their merits , and almost prevents the necessity of our adding any opinion of our owii , as we perfectly agree with the sentiments it contains . ' Pastoral Poetry requires a competent knowled of natural history
ge , a thorough acquaintance with the effeft . which the transition of the seasons ' , have on a country life , and above-all , ' . a simplicity of expression , which is acknowledged to be the unstudied diition , the spontaneous offsprinf , of nature . vox ,, vii , L 1
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications.
of death , which wielding a dart against her , she sinks down and dies . Notning more terrible than this can be conceived . Nor is the moral , in our opinion , bad or useless . The despair of Leonora is not the despair of a pious mind ; it is such as defies heaven and disdains mercy ; and , though her punishment p death , the reader is left to suppose that all severity will terminate . — " Des leibes hist du ledig " Gott sey der Seele gnadig !
" Here oh earth thy days are past 3 " Mercy to thy soul be given ! PYE . This is the exclamation of the beings that howl at her death . The first translation of Mr . Stanley was very defective , both in . versification And polish . The corrected and altered edition is much amended , in these respects ; but we think the alteration of the catastrophe of the story , has entirely spoiled it .
Mr . Pye ' s translation , notwithstanding his great poetical talents , has not the ease or force , which sucfi a performance requires . His attempts to follow the ^ origmal , and translate de Verba , has produced a stiffness , which , throughout , distinguishes it from original writing . Mr . Spencer ' s version does , perhaps , with sufficient felicity imitate the merits of the German poem , and supports the English style with great appearance of originality . The elegant designs of Lady Diana Beaiiclerc , full of
genius and effect , and marked by propriety , decorum , and grace , engraved by Harding and Bartalozzi , strongly recommend it to those who can indulge their taste at such a price . The figures of this artist-which are of a preternatural kind , form a striking contrast to the monsters exhibited in the front of Mr . Stanley's last edition . Our readers may be pleased with the short account of Burger , which Mr . Spencer has given in his preface .
' The works of Mr . Burger , the author of this and many other Poeirjs of the ballad kind , are universally esteemed , wherever the German language prevails as a national idiom , or is cultivated as a branch of education . Simplicity is the characteristic of his compositions ; and , of all literary beauties , simplicity must be the most , generally attractive . No writer , perhaps , lias ever obtained a more decided popularity . To this his subjects and his language equally contribute ; for the former he has mostly chosen local traditions
or legendary anecdotes ; and , in the latter , he is generally elegant , often sublime , and never unintelligible . One of the most powerful causes of Mr . Burger ' s literary popularity , is the deep tinge of superstition that shades almost all his compositions . Supernatural incidents are the darling objefts of his countrymen . Their minds vigorously conceive , and their language nobl y expresses , the terrible and majestic ; and it must be allowed that , in this species of writing , they would force from our nation the palm of excellence , were it not-secured by the impregnable tOAvers of Otranto . '
Poetic Effusions : pastoral , moral , amatory , and descriptive , By William - Perfect , M . D . izmo ' . Pages 160 . Price 2 s . ( yd , To the pastoral part of these Poetic Effusions , the following preface is prefixed by the Editor , which contains a very just critique on their merits , and almost prevents the necessity of our adding any opinion of our owii , as we perfectly agree with the sentiments it contains . ' Pastoral Poetry requires a competent knowled of natural history
ge , a thorough acquaintance with the effeft . which the transition of the seasons ' , have on a country life , and above-all , ' . a simplicity of expression , which is acknowledged to be the unstudied diition , the spontaneous offsprinf , of nature . vox ,, vii , L 1