Salomon Gessner, Palemon, Idyllen, Erste Folge. Concerning the prose translations from Gessner, cf. p. [16].]
For the Pennsylvania Magazine.
MIRTIL AND THIRSIS.
A Pastoral.
From the German.
[Prose translation.]
Penna. Mag., I-359, Aug. 1775, Phila.
[S. Gessner, Myrtil. Thyrsis. Idyllen, Erste Folge.]
Description (with an elegant Engraving) of the celebrated Tomb of Madame Langhans, executed by Mr. John Augustus Nahl, late Sculptor to the King of Prussia, and which is to be seen in the choir of the parish church of Hindlebanck, two leagues from Berne.
As the inscription and verses of the Tombstone, which were written by the celebrated M. de Haller, could not with propriety be introduced in the engraving, we insert them here, in a free translation from the original German.