Potentates 'gainst them shall league While Urda guards the sacred plains: In vain the sons of Asi come. III. Now they turn the intentful mind, But angry Gods their woes increase, IV. Duergi sons, beneath heavens cope, Nations feel the earthquake's force: Whence the iterated ire? Truths oracular subside In limpid Mimer's angry tide: When?-or where?-no mortal eye Can read the coming destiny. grove; Heimdaller, eloquent and wise, Oft the maiden they invoke ; No word oracular she spoke : The big drops down their cheeks that glide: What streams of anguish urge their way. XIII, A, XIII. As when from oriental skies, The thorny wand, with giant might, When in his shadowy car he rides, XIV. Then mortals sink supine to rest, XV. In sullen, silent, abject mood, As struck by him Joruna stood: More ardent yet her words they sought;- XVI. Then he who sounds the vocal horn The chiefs of Vidar thro' the skies Were borne where Vingolf's towers arise: Before the rapid wheels of night. There the Asi sons they find, At banquet, in bright halls reclin'd. XVIII. The God that holds the scales of right, And quaffs nectarian bowls each night- Long Long may the Gods his praises tell, XIX. Baulverker station'd ev'ry guest XX. The banquet done-the immortals grow Lok, the Goddesses address. Tell us, they cried, what wond'rous thing XXI. Fruitless was our toil, they said;- How best the answer to obtain. XXII. Omi spoke, and still profound What seems to him the best resolve; Night, in sable garb array'd, Will lend to thought propitious aid: XXIII. On western hills, and o'er the main, Up the thoughtful heroes rose, Where Hropter with his consort lies. With gems adorn'd, Dellinger's son XXV. Nymphs XXV. Nymphs that mountain summits love, The Dynasts wake from soft repose: And each celestial rock resounds.' To these lines we have nothing to object, but their frequent disagreement with the Icelandic text: the translation of a translation, however elegant, is at best but the shadow of a shade, the reflection of moonlight,-the silhouette of a bust, -the echo of a mockbird's song:-but it may glide over objects new and strange, it may glisten with the rainbow hues of fancy, it may wear the contour of beauty, it may warble in melodious cadence. ART. IV. The Beauties of the late Right Honourable Edmund Burke, selected from the Writings, &c. of that extraordinary Man, alphabetically arranged. Including the following celebrated Political Characters, drawn by himself: Antoinette, late Queen of France, Comte d'Artois, M. Brissot, Richard Burke, Esq, late Earl of Chatham, M. Condorcet, Prince de Conti, Right Hon. Henry Dundas, Hon. C. J. Fox, George III. Lord Grenville, late Mr. Grenville, Warren Hastings, Esq. late Lord Keppel, Sir Hercules Langrishe, Louis XVI. Louis XVIII. Lord North, Right Honourable William Pitt, Marquis of Rockingham, Charles Townsend, Esq. John Wilkes, Esq. &c. &c. to which is prefixed a Sketch of the Life, with some original Anecdotes, of Mr. Burke. Svo. 2 Vols. 10s. Boards. West. 1798. WE have repeatedly heard objections to the modern inven tion of garbling the works of eminent authors, under the idea of selecting their "BEAUTIES." It has been alleged, by those who disapprove this method of book-making, that abridgments of this kind are neither well calculated to promote the fame of those writers who are thus mutilated, nor the real improvement of readers;-that such selections commonly furnish only insulated and desultory reading, communicating merely superficial and partial knowlege; and that they sometimes tend to |