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Dudley , Sir , March ll f 1818 * The beautiful Latin Epigram / " In Somnum , " which appeared in th € last Number of the Montjily Repository , tp * 9 & *] is said to have be ^ n inten ded as an inscript ion for a statue of
Sotnnus , in the garden of the late James Harris , Esq . of Salisbury . I believe it was first published in an interesting work entitled , " Fophami Selecta Poeraata Angiorum , " in three volumes , l $ mo . 1774 . It has generally been attributed to Thomas Warton , and is
inserted as bis , ** on doubtful authority /* with some Variations , which 1 conceive are far from improvements , in Chalmers ' s Wprlfcs ^ f the English Poets , " Xyill T « . 131 . It iiiis no place , hoi ^ eveiv in Wartpo ' s " Poems on various Subjects , ' * which were first collected and printed in an octavo
volume , in 1791 . I have been much amused by transcribitifg and comparing the different translations of this admirable epigram , which I have met With in the cdiifrte of my reading . If you will be kind enough to insert them all , with the original , in one view , they may , perhaps , gratify , the readers of the Monthly Repository .
\ would take the liberty of adding that I think there must be some error in the signature affixed to the translation in page 64 of your present volume . I have possessed that translation many years , though 1 am unable , at this moment , to assign it to its author . * ^ J . H . BRANSBY .
VIN SOMNUM Somne ieirte ! quanquain certissima mortis . . ' . imago , \ ; ' ' ' . '" ; ^ ' ¦ •' Condortem cupio te tamen . ease tori . Alma quies !; opfata , veni ; nam sic si he vita Viycre quam suave e $ i , sic « ine mort « motu I-- ' . ,- ' . ' " ' ' ' . ' ' ¦ • . < ¦ . > '' . "¦ ' ¦ ¦ - .. « . ¦ . ¦ * '
TRANSLATIONS . Oh Staep profound ! though near allied To Death ' s Btill stat ^ , which we must dread , Yet thon art welcome as a bride ^ To be the partner of my bed . ^ mbracM by thee , toft , gentle Rest ! la fond oblivion kt me Ik :
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Forlifel € 3 s thus to live , how ble * i ! T Thus without death , hdw * weet to die ! f . . . Come , gentle Sleep , attend thy vot > y * s ¦ ¦ ; : , p » y ^» . ' - > - . v-L--- : -M--i :- * - ¦ And , though Death ' s image , to in j couch
How swe ^ t thus lifeless , yet with life to « e ! ' ¦ ¦ ¦¦ . ¦ .. ' : : t- ' ' . , ¦¦ r : '; Thus without dying , oh , how sweet to die ! I > r < WolcaU *
Though Death's strong likeness in thy : form we trace , / Come Steep ! and fold me in tby toft em * brace . Come , gentle Sleep ! that sweetest blissins
To die thus living , and thus dead to live Anonymous . Come , gentle Sleep ! to thee I sing-, Thou balm of human woes ! Soft Rest ! oh , wave thy downy wing , And lull me to repose .
What though the true resemblance thine The shadows of the dead , ' For tbee I wish , for thee I pine , ? To share my humble bed . How sweet to draw the vital breath , : Yet thus from life td fly $ And 1 bus , without a real death s How sweet with thde to die !
Miss Bradford . Emblem of Death i come # oothing , balmy Sleep ! Friend of nay pillow ! o ^ r my eye-lcds creep : Soft let me slumber , gently breathing sigh , Live without life , and without dying die .: Mr . Meyler .
Sleep ! though Death thou dost resemble , ¦ Still I court thy shadowy aid ; Fear nor hope shall make me tremble , In thy lap oblivious laid . Then , while oh niy pillow lying ,
Envied bliss , oh , let me sharo ; Death , williout the pang ^ s of dying , Life without the lead of Cftre . Jtev . R . Cariwri ghty Author qf Armine and Elvira . ^ > \ ' Come , Sleep ! Death's image ! to tby arms 1 ¦ f ^ y > ' " ¦ ' \ - Thus without life to live , thus without death to die . Anonymou * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1818, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2475/page/53/
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