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''ut when he pleas'd to shew't his speech,


In lofiness of sound was rich;


A BaJylonish dialect,


Which learned pedants much Affect


1t was a party-color'o dress,


Ofpatch'd and py-baM languages.


Twas English cut on 'sreck and Latin,


Like fustna heretofore on satin.


1t had an odd promiscuous tone,


As ifhe'd tslk'd three parts in one;


Which made some think when he did gabble,


They heard three laborers of Dabc,


Or Cerberus himself pronounce


A leash of languages at once"


Quotations and phrases in the Dead and
Foreign Languages, give classical and
learned air to composition, but it is doubtful
whether they give general pleasure. The
number of learnedly educated persons, is so
small, that the circle in which they can be
understood and appreciated must be very
limited; hence general diffusion OF their
influence is impossible. If men write for
the ediicaton or amusement of the public,
they should accommodate every word and
phrase to the comprehension Of those ad-
dressed. 1t is quite natural for men to ex
ercise and exhibit their attanncnts, but it is
not always expedient and pleasing Striving
to appear learned, they render themselves
obscure. They astonsh, but they do moi
please--they perplex, but they do not teach
Wrapped in their own splendor the, glide
like midnight meteors through the air, won,
dercd at, but misunderstood or incomprehen
sible. Writers would lose nothing in effec'
or celebrity by expressing themselves in the
vermacular tongue. Learned men would
understand them fully as well. and unlearn-
ed men, much better.


There is scarcely any thing more disagreed
bic to those who cannot understand it,than II
discover in the midst OF train of arguments
precepts or descriptions, sentence, phrase
or word. in foreign or dead language. Ev.
cry thing seems suddenly convulsed and
dark. A kind of deadly apoplexy seize'
the mind, and violently destroys that life
vigor and equilibrium, which buoyed it uE
through its conceptions.


1t is satisfaction to know that the Eng.
lish language is sufficiently copious to fur
nish words for the expression OF every
thought that the head can generate or i'm
bibe, or emotion the heart can feel. 1t il
in the language of Cowper,


"Expressive, energetic and refined"
Every idea may be told, every feeling trans
cribrd, and all be embellshed and beautified
The Genius of English writer's, has render
ed it perfect, and although, they are indebt
ed to foreign lands and olden times, for man,
of the materials which compose it, yet thu
workmanship and superstructure are thei
own:-they have reared splendid habita
ton, the foundation of which is indestruct'
BILE. and immovable. Then why should w
seek the empty pomp of useless learning t.
bedizen that which is independently, and IN
srinsically, fair and beneficial. II.