Adhibere usu ast longo vires prorsus inepti, Si non ut qui grindeat axve trabemve revolvat, Virginiam excruciant totis nunc mightibu' matrem ; Non melius, puta, nono panis dimidiumne est ? 75 Readere ibi non posse est casus commoner ullo; Tanto intentius imprimere est opus ergo statuta; Nemo propterea pejor, melior, sine doubto, Obtineat qui contractum, si et postea rhino; Ergo Polardus, si quis, inexsuperabilis heros, Colemanus impavidus nondum, atque in purpure natus 80 85 Tylerus Iohanides celerisque in flito Nathaniel, Quisque optans digitos in tantum stickere pium, Adstant accincti imprimere aut perrumpere leges: Quales os miserum rabidi tres ægre molossi, Quales aut dubium textum atra in veste ministri, Tales circumstabant nunc nostri inopes hoc job. Hisque Polardus voce canoro talia fatus: Primum autem, veluti est mos, præceps quisque liquorat, 91 Quisque et Nicotianum ingens quid inserit atrum, Ingeminans pennæ lickos et vulnera vocis ? 95 Sæpius aut dedit ultro datam et broke his paro lam? Mente inquassatus solidâque, tyranno minante, Horrisonis (hic) bombis moenia et alta qua tente, 100 Sese promptum (hic) jactans Yankos lickere cen tum, Atque ad lastum invictus non surrendidit unquam? Ergo haud meddlite, posco, mique relinquite (hic) hoc job, Si non — knifumque enormem mostrat spittatque tremendus. Dixerat: ast alii reliquorant et sine pauso 105 Pluggos incumbunt maxillis, uterque vicissim Certamine innocuo valde madidam inquinat as sem: Tylerus autem, dumque liquorat aridus hostis, Mirum aspicit duplumque bibentem, astante Lyæo ; Ardens impavidusque edidit tamen impia ver ba; 110 Duplum quamvis te aspicio, esses atque viginti, Mendacem dicerem totumque (hic) thrasherem acervum ; Nempe et thrasham, doggonatus (hic) sim nisi faxem ; Lambastabo omnes catawompositer-(hic)-que cha wam! Dixit et impulsus Ryeo ruitur bene titus, 115 Illi nam gravidum caput et laterem habet in hatto. Hunc inhiat titubansque Polardus, optat et il lum Stickere inermem, protegit autem rite Lyæus, 121 Magno asino similis nimio sub pondere quassus: Colemanus hos moestus, triste ruminansque sola men, 125 Inspicit hiccans, circumspittat terque cubantes; Funereisque his ritibus humidis inde solutis, Sternitur, invalidusque illis superincidit infans; Hos sepelit somnus et snorunt cornisonantes, Watchmanus inscios ast calybooso deinde reponit. No. IX. [THE Editors of the "Atlantic" have received so many letters of inquiry concerning the literary remains of the late Mr. Wilbur, mentioned by his colleague and successor, Rev. Jeduthun Hitchcock, in a communication from which we made some extracts in our number for February, 1863, and have been so repeatedly urged to print some part of them for the gratification of the public, that they felt it their duty at least to make some effort to satisfy so urgent a demand. They have accordingly carefully examined the papers intrusted to them, but find most of the productions of Mr. Wilbur's pen so fragmentary, and even chaotic, written as they are on the backs of letters in an exceedingly cramped chirography, — here a memorandum for a sermon; there an observation of the weather; now the measurement of an extraordinary head of cabbage, and then of the cerebral capacity of some reverend brother deceased; a calm inquiry into the state of modern literature, ending in a method of detecting if milk be impoverished with water, and the amount thereof; one leaf beginning with a genealogy, to be interrupted half-way down with an entry that the brindle cow had calved, that any attempts at selection seemed desperate. His only complete work, "An Enquiry concerning the Tenth Horn of the Beast," even in the abstract of it given by Mr. Hitchcock, would, by a rough computation of the printers, fill five entire numbers of our journal, and as he attempts, by a new application of decimal fractions, to identify it with the Emperor Julian, seems hardly of immediate concern to the general reader. Even the Table-Talk, though doubtless originally highly interesting in the domestic circle, is so largely made up of theological discussion and matters of local or preterite interest, that we have found it hard to extract anything that would at all satisfy expectation. But, in order to silence further inquiry, we subjoin a few passages as illustrations of its general character.] I think I could go near to be a perfect Christian if I were always a visitor, as I have sometimes been, at the house of some hospitable friend. I can show a great deal of self-denial where the best of everything is urged upon me with kindly importunity. It is not so very hard to turn the other cheek for a kiss. And when I meditate upon the pains taken for our entertainment in this life, on the endless variety of seasons, of human character and fortune, on the costliness of the hangings and furniture of our dwelling here, I sometimes feel a singular joy in looking upon myself as God's guest, and cannot but believe that we should all be wiser and happier, because more grateful, if we were always mindful of our privilege in this regard. And should we not rate more cheaply |