قراءة كتاب The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 362, March 21, 1829

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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 13, No. 362, March 21, 1829

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 362, March 21, 1829

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of it, and they form the beginning of the history contained in the second roll. This Amemnengon is supposed to have reigned before Sesostris, because the author wrote in the ninth year of the reign of the latter. M. Champollion had not time to enter into a particular examination of these rolls.

The third roll relates to astronomy or astrology, or more likely to both these subjects. It has not been far opened; but will probably prove of the utmost interest, if, as it is expected, it contains any account of the system of the heavens as known to or acknowledged by the Egyptians and Chaldeans, the authors of astronomical science.

A small basaltic figure was purchased with the MSS., and it is supposed found with them. On the shoulders of the figure is written in hieroglyphic characters the name, with the addition of clerk and friend of Sesostris. It did not occur to ascertain, until M. Champollion was gone, whether the name on the figure was the same with any of those mentioned in the rolls as belonging to the historian, or to others.—From the French.


SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.


THE VICAR.

A SECOND EVERY-DAY CHARACTER.

Some years ago, ere time and taste

Had turn'd our parish topsy-turvy,

When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste,

And roads as little known as scurvy,

The man who lost his way between

St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket,

Was always shown across the Green,

And guided to the parson's wicket.

Back flew the bolt of lissom lath;

Fair Margaret, in her tidy kirtle,

Led the lorn traveller up the path,

Through clean clipt rows of box and myrtle.

And Don and Sancho, Tramp and Tray,

Upon the parlour steps collected,

Wagg'd all their tails, and seem'd to say,

"Our master knows you; you're expected."

Uprose the Reverend Dr. Brown,

Uprose the doctor's "winsome marrow;"

The lady laid her knitting down,

Her husband clasp'd his pond'rous Barrow:

What'er the stranger's cast or creed,

Pundit or Papist, saint or sinner,

He found a stable for his steed,

And welcome for himself, and dinner.

If, when he reach'd his journey's end,

And warm'd himself in court or college,

He had not gain'd an honest friend,

And twenty curious scraps of knowledge;—

If he departed as he came,

With no new light on love or liquor,—

Good sooth, the traveller was to blame,

And not the vicarage, nor the vicar.

His talk was like a stream which runs

With rapid change from rocks to roses:

It slipp'd from politics to puns;

It pass'd from Mahomet to Moses:

Beginning with the laws which keep

The planets in their radiant courses,

And ending with some precept deep

For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.

He was a shrewd and sound divine,

Of loud dissent the mortal terror;

And when, by dint of page and line,

He 'stablish'd truth, or startled error,

The Baptist found him far too deep,

The Deist sigh'd with saving sorrow;

And the lean Levite went to sleep,

And dream'd of tasting pork to-morrow.

His sermon never said or show'd

That earth is foul, that heaven is gracious,

Without refreshment on the road

From Jerome, or from Athanasius:

And sure a righteous zeal inspired

The hand and head that penn'd and plann'd them;

For all who understood admired,

And some who did not understand them.

He wrote too, in a quiet way,

Small treatises, and smaller verses;

And sage remarks on chalk and clay.

And hints to noble lords and nurses:

True histories of last year's ghost,

Lines to a ringlet, or a turban;

And trifles for the Morning Post,

And nothings for Sylvanus Urban.

He did not think all mischief fair,

Although he had a knack of joking;

He did not make himself a bear,

Although he had a taste for smoking:

And when religious sects ran mad,

He held, in spite of all his learning,

That if a man's belief is bad,

It will not be improved by burning.

And he was kind, and loved to sit

In the low hut or garnish'd cottage,

And praise the farmer's homely wit,

And share the widow's homelier pottage:

At his approach complaint grew mild;

And when his hand unbarr'd the shutter,

The clammy lips of fever smiled

The welcome, which they could not utter.

He always had a tale for me

Of Julius Caesar, or of Venus;

From him I learn'd the rule of three,

Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and Quae genus:

I used to singe his powder'd wig,

To steal the staff he put such trust in;

And make the puppy dance a jig,

When he began to quote Augustin.

Alack the change! in vain I look

For haunts in which my boyhood trifled;

The level lawn, the trickling brook,

The trees I climb'd, the beds I rifled:

The church is larger than before;

You reach it by a carriage entry;

It holds three hundred people more,

And pews are fitted up for gentry.

Sit in the Vicar's seat: you'll hear

The doctrine of a gentle Johnian,

Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear,

Whose phrase is very Ciceronian.

Where is the old man laid?—look down.

And construe on the slab before you,

Hic jacet

GULIELMUS BROWN,

Vir nulla non donandus lauru.

New Monthly Magazine.


TAILORS.

There is nothing upon earth that is of so much utility to men in general as fine clothes. A splendid equipage, a magnificent house, may draw the gaze of idle passers, and excite an occasional inquiry. But who, that has entered taverns and coffeehouses, has not perceived that the ratio of civility and attention from the waiter is regulated by the dress of his various customers? Any stranger, elegantly and fashionably attired, will find little difficulty in obtaining deference, politeness, and even credit, in every shop he enters; whereas the stranger, in more homely, or less modish garb, is really nobody. In truth, the gentleman is distinguished in the crowd only by the cut of his trousers, and he carries his patent of nobility in his coat-lap. And to whom does he owe this index of his identity, but to his despised and much calumniated tailor?

There is not a metamorphosis in all the pages of Ovid so wonderful as that which the great magician of the shears and thimble is capable of effecting. If there be the most unpleasant disproportions in the turn of your limbs—any awkwardness or deformity in your figure, the enchantment of this mighty wizard instantly communicates symmetry and elegance. The incongruous and unseemly furrows of your shape become smooth

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