Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-11-20

apply 10 men No! there was in him a large
aud catholic sympathy with all classes all tempers an
works ro all the faint OF party aud all the heaven Of
'aidul.m; this was that made him, il the Tory in prin-
cplc the al-cmuacng leader i'll practice. Compare with
what ne has done for the peopcin painting the people,,
the works OF poets cal,e3 iibcrhl 10y the dOehiRdneS
compare the writing Of Scott with those OF Byron-which
have really tended he most To bind us 10 the poor
The irst has touched the homcly sugS of real heart
the other hos written tine vague sdnzas about free
don Iara; the Corar, Childe Harold, Don Juan, these
are the workS--wo viii not say of the misantmopc-at
least OF the aiisiocrat. Are SCOTS 500 Yet Byron
Liberal and Scott Tory. Ala! the sympathy with
humanity i The rcpubicauiSiu of writer OF fiction
Liberal and Tory words which signify nothing out OF
The sphere of the politics OF the day. Who shall we Sc
ect from The liberal pests OF age, who has bound us
to the people, like Scout Shelley with his
rciinng?-Moorc, with his elaborate oridy OF patriot
ism:- No! ee that nature taught Scott more
oil friendship with all mankind, than the philosophy of the
one or the aucy oil the other. Out of print Scott might
belong TO patty-m print, mankind belong TO him. To.
ryisi which is another for the spirit of monopoly
lersook him ut that point where his inquiries into human
nature began lie Is not then, apprchend, Justly liza.
Die to the charge of wanting sound mora-even great
P0htcd moral-(and political morals the greatest OF
hin the general tenor OF works which have compelled
IN THIS with lar less learning, far less abstract philosophy
TIA" Fielding he is only exceeded by him in charac-
ter (and that, indeed, the admirable in English
hcton) THE character OF ParSon Adams jeanne Deans
Is worth a thousand such Fanny Andrews Fielding
c Sage aud Cervantes are the only three writer's since
'he world began, with whom, novelist he be COM
pared And perhaps he cNceS Them VOltaire excced
all the writers OF his nation by the superior merits OF
one work, but by the brilliant aggregate of many. Tom
Jones' Gil Bias, Don QuiNotte are without doubt greater
muoh greater productions than Wavercy; but the Gfhor
oil Tom Jones, Gil Bias, and even of Don Quixote bav,
not manifested the fertile and mighty genius As Tho
author of the Wavcrlcy Novels.
And That genus-seemrngly inexhaustibc-.i.
quenchct at length We be charmed no nore-the
eloquent t"ngue mutethc masters wand is broken IN
the right hand hath forgot its cunning-,he cord that i.
oosened was indeed OF slverand the bowl that is broker
atthe dark weiiwas of gold beyond all price
has bee Inns tho
ea-he mighty landmarks of the last age one after one
nave been removed Culver, Macintosh, Bentham
Goethe, and ROW Sco-there is something as il were
mysterious and solemn in the disappearance of so man,
lights oil the within short nicry al of each
ans happening, n does, period when the old ele
eh's oil society are Shaken TO the CENTRE ig ut have
seemed TO ancient superstition if the world were
pairing itself tor an experienced and the removal
The chiefs oil the past time bctokened the advent of ne
order OF mind suited to the new disposition Of events
W hen great dies, no leaves a chasm which etcr
nliy cannot hl Others succeed his ane-bu never Il
The exact place which he held in the worlds eve -e,
may be greater than the have los-but they ar,
not he Shakespeare built his throne OF The same st,
as Homer-nor Scott that whence Shakespeare Iookct
Gown upon the universe. The gap which Scott leaves in
the world the token of the place he filled in the homage
oil ms times HUNDRED yes hence our posterv will sill
see uat wide interval unteuaneda and mighty err
III the intellectual world, which will prove how spaciou
were the city and the temple whose summit has reache,
to Iieaven."-Ihe AuthOr IF Eugene fran