cascade, and a grotto, wherein we Italians are seldom guilty of see the figures of Apollo and the drinking to excess, though their nine Muses on Mount Parnassus, country abounds with the choicest represented playing on instru- wines; but their sobriety is in a ments, and put in motion by measure owing to their parsimowater; but these works are much ny, for they are observed to be inout of order. temperate enough at other people's

Within two miles of Frescati, tables. Their favourite studies at a place called Grotto Ferrate, are painting, architecture, sculpwas Cicero's country seat, called ture, music and poetry; all which, Tusculanum, where that great it must be granted, they have orator composed his Tusculan brought to a great perfection. If Questions, and gave them that they are profuse in any thing, it title from the agreeable place of is in their buildings, and in makretirement which had produced ing collections of pictures and them.

The places we have been describing were the cool recesses of the ancient Romans during the excessive heats of summer.

statues to adorn them: they also affect splendid equipages, great trains of servants, and love to make a figure at least equal to their fortunes; which they are always desirous of advancing, and

We now return to pay our last visit to Rome, where, instead of are ambitious of honour and preamusing ourselves any longer ferment.

with buildings, statues, and other

[To be continued.]

AGES.

The English, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, had only two stated meals a-day, dinner

productions of art, we shall con- THE TABLE IN THE MIDDLE sider the genius, and manners of that city, and of Italy in general. When a foreigner comes first to Rome, he will perceive a reserved behaviour in the citizens, who and supper: the former at nine generally study a stranger's hu- in the forenoon, the latter at five mour and temper before they ad- in the afternoon. These hours, mit him to their company and fa- besides being convenient for bumiliarity: but a short acquaint- siness, were supposed to be friendance wears off this stiffness, and ly to health and long life, accordthey become civil, affable, and ing to the following verses, which obliging; observing a just medi- were then often repeated:

um between the levity of the French, and the starched gravity of the Spaniard. They are of an amorous disposition, and are too much addicted to jealousy. The

Lever a cinq, diner a neuf,
Souper a cinq, coucher a neuf,

Fait vivre d'ans nonante et neuf.
To rise at seven, to dine at nine,
To sup at five, to bed at nine,
Makes a man live to ninety-nine.

Rr

We are not, however, on that lowed as a profession. The Chinese aecount to imagine, that they say of a person, that he has the were strangers to the pleasures the talent of making verses, almost of the table. On the contrary, in the same manner as one would they had not only a variety of praise, in Europe, a captain of dishes, but these, too, consisted dragoons, for being an excellent of the most delicate kinds of food, performer on the violin. A taste and were dressed in the richest for poetry, notwithstanding, preand most costly manner. Thomas vails pretty generally in China; à Becket is said to have given and there are a few Chinese writers five pounds, equivalent to seventy who have devoted some of their five pounds at present, for one leisure hours to the muses, and dish of eels. The Monks of St. have proved themselves not deSwithins, at Winchester, made a ficient either in genius or imaformal complaint to Henry H. gination. Chinese verses admit against their Abbot, for taking only of the most energetic, picaway three of the thirteen dishes, turesque, and harmonious words, they used to have every day at and they must always be used dinner. The Monks of Canter- in the same sense in which bury were still more luxurious, they have been employed by the for they had at least seventeen ancients. As the Chinese poets dishes every day, besides a des- have not the same resources as sert; and these dishes were dress- Europeans, in the attracting ficed with spiceries and sauces, tions of mythology, they supply which excited the appetite, as the deficiency occasioned by the well as pleased the taste. want of those beauties which our poetry derives from this aid, by several different methods.. First, by bold and ingenious metaphors, suited to the spirit of

To the Editor of the Oxford Enter. taining Miscellany.

OF THE CHINESE.

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE POETRY their language. The eagle, for instance, is styled, in their verses, Employed only on useful stu- "the host of the clouds;" a mat dies, and such as may conduct to upon which one reposes, "the fortune, the Chinese in general kingdom of sleep," the head, set very little value on poetry. "the sanctuary of reason," the The art of making verses seldom eyes, "the stars of the forehead," engages the attention, or obtains &c. Secondly, they use the the rewards of their government. names of several animals in an This study therefore is generally allegorical sense: thus, the drapursued from taste, or to fill up a gon, tyger, kite, and swallow, vacant hour; but it is never fol-supply the place of Jupiter, Mars,

Mercury, and Flora. Thirdly, they are able also to procure a great assistance from the manners and customs of high antiquity, of which they preserve sentences. Their history, the actions and repartees of their emperors, the maxims of their ancient literati, furnish them also with a great va

Woman's the slender, graceful vine,
Whose curling tendrils round it twine,
And deck its rough bark sweetly
o'er.

Man is the rock whose tow'ring crest
Nods o'er the mountain's barren side;

Woman the soft and mossy vest,
That loves to clasp its sterile breast,
And wreath its brown in verdant
soil.

riety of beautiful and agreeable Man is the cloud of coming storm,

allusions.

SONG.

N.

Dark as the raven's murky plume,

:

Save where the sun-beams, light and warm,

From Ackermann's "Forget me Not," for 1825. Of woman's soul, and woman's form, O Lady, leave thy silken thread

Gleam brightly o'er the gathering

And flowery tapestry,

gloom.

There's living roses on the bush,

And blossoms on the tree;

Yes, lovely sex; to you 'tis given

Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless

hand

To rule our hearts with angels' sway,

Some random bud will meet;
Blend with each woe a blissful leaven,
Thou canst not tread but thou wilt Change earth into an embryo heaven,
And sweetly smile our cares away.

find

The daisy at thy feet.

'Tis like the birthday of the world,
When Earth was born in bloom;
The light is made of many dyes,
The air is all perfume;

There's crimson buds, and white and
blue-

The very rainbow show'rs
Have turn'd to blossoms where they
fell,

And sown the earth with flow'rs.
There's fairy tulips in the East,
The garden of the sun;
The very streams reflect the hues,
And blossom as they run:

While morn opes like a crimson rose,
Still wet with purly show'rs;
Then lady, leave the silken thread
Thou twinest into flow'rs!

7

MAN AND WOMAN.

Man is the rugged, lofty pine,

FROM CATULLUS.

Ut flos in septis secretus nascitur hortis
Ignotus pecori, nullo convulsus aratro,
Quem mulcent auræ, firmat sol, educat
imber,

Multi illum pueri, multæ optavere pu-
ellæ ;

Idem cum tenui carptus defloruit ungui,

Nulli illum pueri, nullæ optavere puellæ;

Sic Virgo, dum intacta manet, tum cara suis; sed

Cum castum amisit polluto corpore florem,

Nec pueris jucunda manet, nec cara puellis.

A free translation of the above. As some fair flower beneath a fostering sky,

That frowns on many a wave beat Sweet fav'rite object of the gardener's shore;

:

Secure from cattle, and the plough- | JACK tallyho's, then sounds his horn,

With jealous care is strongly fenc'd Bold Reynard seems them all to scorn,

The character and views of this The public opinion of Mr. Cancelebrated statesman, are general- ning's talents and eloquence was ly canvassed and variously judged his passport to the Foreign Office, at the present moment by the in 1822. His conduct on a meEnglish public, the Irish parti- morable occasion had unavoidably sans, and the continental devotees given deep offence in a high quarof passive submission to kings ter, but in that quarter a regard and priests. Abroad he his dis- was paid to public feeling and to tinguished by the untitled obscu- the public interest, at the expense rity of his name and ancestry. of personal considerations, sufficiIn the memory of living man, no ent to shed lustre on the loftiest minister has led in our popular station, and on the most magnaniHouse of Parliament, without the mous temper. From subsequent pride of noble blood to animate his acts, it is very manifest that this tone in debate and strengthen his was not the result of immediate influence in division; but Mr. necessity, but the complete conCanning, now leader for two years, quest of a great spirit over incihas no other resource for person- dental and not unreasonable irrial pretension and influence, but tation. Not to mention several the character he has acquired and other decisive proofs of royal apthe talents he can exert. Foreign-probation of the more liberal part ers would consider this defect of the Cabinet, the appointment fatal to the power of the Foreign of Lord Erskine is one of the Secretary, but the people of Eng- most signal instances ever exhibitland, eminently loyal as they are, ed of a Sovereign cherishing have ever shewn a more than re- kindly remembrance of an early publican deference to merit un- friend, and testifying the sincerity supported by illustrious descent of that friendship by the most or noble title, and have unequivo- seasonable patronage of his friend's cally given their suffrages for Mr. son. The Foreign Secretary may Canning. It is true that mere be considered as firmly established Ss.