The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-02 00:00:00

►ARD.

partly, thr°?_!:
a hero, a man, and a saint, he became,
his own fault; and partly through the force of. daesne
a satirist, an unfortunate politician . died early ;- n
must approach his-corpse as •men cl7o those of Enloe,
Byron, with sorrow wonder, admiration, and 01
blended: into one strange, eom'pler •and yet not 111111atil,
emotion. Like them, his life was'..s. ho
rt and unhaPPid,
his career triumphant; yet chequered-- his Powers unit,
tivated—his- passions -unchecked —his -poetry- onlY
roe or
tial discovery of- his genius—his- end sudden and fistori
choly—and his reputation and future, place in the
of letters- hitherto somewhat uncertain.
natAiognaiansitsth• nee-ceinasjuasryticteoopfrsoot.:te.
contrasts, and. tolerably turned sentencci-7;
tempting matters, when placed iu the path ebtit
man greedy of popularity as a literary oracle ;Bss
they ought not-to induce one already lc-Own the
critical commentator, to slightly etimatedod,
beesleimilaecel:
character and achievements of the migbirtYjoio
The parallel sought to be drawn by Mr. ui
Sep
among the three mdividuals„.will not
between any. two of them. Barns an
d
though powerful in the use of their of
scalpels, were more than- mere sathists_;iit,e,
greatly like-each other, and-they are geneTverK,
lieved to have had considerably cultivated Pato/ ol
that reputation and future place in thaitiO,,
letters is by no means so dubious as Idri
would have his readers to believe ; and rasb-eioo,'
concur with us in thinking that sometbigrt ,f 0
cool judgment and strictijustice has bettaise
in the mind of him who could stig,St" o,
author of " The Cottae.s. Saturday,
the " Advice to a Young. Friend" aolsiciatell
not a few will also question the dicta: that
who somewhat ostentatiously tells uSieseeel,sl
poetry of him who wrote " The lges_j.°,,-1 bor',4
and enbalmed in undying song the 17-disel'
of "-The Shipwreck,' is but a risr4s-pstw;
of his. genius. In glancing over tfufilitb.:
which we have just- referred, and Miets*
analyse its meaning or to estimate .e ,tot
curious inquirer might find in the siliosela.:°e
opinion expressed by Mr. GROW '',4re;', the
wholly inapplicable to the- subject. '0
or private pique," says he, " alwaY3-All/$l/. vaeLit
bottom of such reckless assaults, al/P.O
the long run: feel so." Amen, say we' tit
-
opinion. fro
Esssatyudoyn
oftheHAisd
History._
07;
~ageßs Advantages:
.beltd..earie.edif etc ric°':
E. Howell.
The popular feeling of the presOt °ollsisi
little in favour of that wisdom whicildece'l
gathered from the experience of our Pre,. toy"
and so much devoted to an exhibition .t to 1J
sufficiency which finds its chief suPPoloso„01
weening self-conceit, that one feels Phoitiv"
meet with an individual who, somewhat at
in his belief of knowledge created
speed, and dubious of the fulness of tit
which is flashed through society with ga
like rapidity, falls back upon the stc're.il
lated and arranged before mere eell'h:doll'
the be-all and the end-all of limos'' "befot!
ambition. The author of the brochil
uo
with much cogency of reasonings ari,%019
amount of skill, encounters the prer",„
norance and presumption included in,t7,;ty
which teaches us to believe that "h 's",- 01
as an old almanack," of no present 'ts'aie
He appeals,, in felicitous terms, t° OP'
examples of magnanimity and ivisa°l3l,metof
for our advantage in the lives and Co sod
Feat men of old, and traces, throur`"etio
incidents, striking illustrations of ther 0e1;.
value of such lessons taught by Wire,'" ~0
so far done well, but might have d!,'1",1,-ecre.,;',e'
had followed the course of events tll L't -13'e ~"
the all-absorbing incident of our tinleyeceti
war. He might have shown that