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 JOHN KOLLÁR is a bohemian minister at Pesth, in Hungary. I have not scrupled to translate pretty largely from his works; and I am much mistaken if he will not be deemed worthy of praise and admiration. The meeting tenderness, the melancholy sweetness with which he dwells on the fate of his country, and the eager thusiasm with which he rears up the dreams of her future power and happiness, appear to me full of the finest materials of thought and expression. Like my original, I have hound myself to the sonnet's narrow limits—but Kollár has also written some epigrams and elegies. I cannot but deem such men