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· Literature, Principally Belletristic . Ye Brave, whose Deeds shall Vie with Time, Whilst Mill can turn, or poet rhime, Your tatters hoard for future Quires; So Need demands, so Parks desires. Nice Delia's Smock, which, neat and whole, No Man durst finger for his Soul; Turn'd to Gazette now all the Town, Make take it up, or smooth it down. In the South-Carolina Gazette of March 20, I740, Dumbleton printed a lively burlesque on drinking, entitled "A Rhapsody on Rum." Great Spirit hai1!--confusion's angry Sire, And like thy Parent Bacchus, born of fire: The Gaol's Decoy; the greedy Merchant's Lure; Disease of Money, but Reflection's Cure. We owe, Great DRAM! the trembling Hand to thee, The headstrong Purpose; and the feeble Knee. Though Dumbleton published at least two serious poems during the I 740s, he is certainly best remembered for these two mock-heroic pieces, which were reprinted elsewhere in America, and in Britain at least one was in the Gentleman's Magazine (XIX [Sept., I749J, 424 ). In somewhat the same spirit as these satiric verses is "The Northern Miracle. A Tale," a Rabelaisian narrative poem of the fabliau type popular in the age. Though it appeared in the South-Carolina Gazette of January 8, 1750, it had an English setting.97 The essays of "Humourist," printed in the South-Carolina Gazette in I753-I754, are probably the ablest belletristic writing in that periodi cal in the colonial period. The author was a humorist in the older sense and with grace and delicacy composed serious moral essays and light prose satire, as well as a little vers de societe. He devotes a great proportion of his space to the art of letters and gives his own definition of lit erary criticism. Here he should be remembered as a good-natured but perceptive light satirist. A number of later South Carolina pieces are not concerned essentially with politics and may be taken as a continuation of the earlier satiric tradition. One is "A Description of Charles Town in I769" by a Captain Martin of the British navy. Its first lines set the tone : Black & white all mix'd together, Inconstant, strange, unhealthful Weather Burning heat & chilling cold Dangerous both to young & 01d.98 1397
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