The Grecian Wreath of Victory

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1824. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... in whose service I am fighting; may 1 hope for the conqueror's reward. u His brows with roses, and with myrtles bound; So should do sert iii arms be crowned. And then, hy way of returning the compliment, I will commission Titania to Make your beds of blushing roses, With a thousand fragrant posies; A cap of flowers, and a girdle, Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle. A. B. TO THE EDITORS OF THE AMERICAN. Gentlemen, --I beg to make my acknowledgments, through yon, to the Grecian Ladies, for the essential service they have rendered the public in giving a novel aspect to the columns of your ve.ry valuable paper. We have of late had so much of the Canal, and the Constitution, and the Corporation, and Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Calhoun, and Mr. Adams, and the Presidential election, that many others as well as myself, have sighed for some variety. The Ladies, God bless them! have charmed D2 the rusty scholar from his dusty tomes, and elicited a discussion which forces every one, who in early youth knew any thing of ancient lore, to furbish up his memory, and to extend his views from the mean contemplation of self, and local objects, backwards to those days of glory which once illumined the beautiful and classic fields of ancient Greece; while, by the same means, the attention of the public is called to the struggle now existing between the abused descendants of that once illustrious people, and the base slaves of the vilest-and most brutal despotism that ever cursed the earth. I have been peculiarly pleased with the two pieces which graced your paper of Tuesday evening, both of which are written in a style that proves the writers to be men of learning and taste. I beg leave, however, to suggest to A. B. that Alexander, rendered insane by prosperity, claimed to...