Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1833-11-28
From the Lowell Journal.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE

/ L.
/ A gentleman observed a few even.
lngs since, very much to our surprise,
that Shakespeare was not a correct de.
lineator of human character. We
took up the cudgels in defence of the
Bard of Avon, who had so frequently
furnished us with an antidote to care.
and yehemently insisted that almost
every variety Of character was faith.
fully portrayed by Shakspeare's gra-
pho pen. We even went so far as to
offer to prove it, although our time is
rather valuable at present, and to fur
nlsh a sketch of character from his
dramatic works, for the name of every
well-known individual, which might be
proposed. Accordingly, the names of
more than fifty distinguished persons
were written on slips of paper, and de.
posted in a hat. The same number
of extracts from Shakespeare was also
written down on separate pieces of pa.
per, and deposited in another hat-and
the Lottery ,oaS draarn by disinterested
persons. 1t will be perceived that the
blanks and the prizes were pretty G.
qually distributed-and there was as
much fairness in the drawing as is pro-
badly usual on such occasions. How
far our conduct may be deemed GEN.
surable, for aiding and abetting in such
a Lottery, after the late legislative act,
it remains for others to decide.
1t will be recollected that we do not
hold ourself responsible for the appl-
cation of certain passages to certain
individuals. If there should be in ma
ny instances a misapplication, it must
be attributed to chance. Indeed, the
wonder is that so many sketches of
character, taken at random, should
apply so happily to the master spirits of
the age.
The following is the result Of this
singular lottery
ANDREW jackson
Proud man, dressed in little brief authority,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,
As makes the angels weep.
Have you the Lows part ,critten? pray you, if
1t be, give it me, for i am slow of study.
JUDGE MLEAN.
----Far behind his worth,
Come all the praises which now bestow;
He is complete in feature and in mind,
With all good grace to grace gentleman.
INeHAm.
am man more sinncd against, than shining.
BRANCH.
An honest fellow enough, and one that loves
quails. But he has not so much brains
wax.
EDWARD EVERETT.
his cradle
He was scholar, and a ripe, good one,
Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading.
F. P. BLAIR.
He will lie with such volatility, that you
would think truth were fool.
CRAwFoRp.
Lofty and sour to those who lov'd him not,
But to those who sought him sweet as summer.
WEBSTER.
combination and form indeed,
Where every God did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance Of a man.
BENTON.
What spcndthrift is he of his tongue,
McDUFFrE.
You have deserved nobly Of your country, and
you have not deserved nobly
JOHN @. ApAMs-harch d. 1929.
Each hath his place and function to attend,
But long will not be Jack out Of office.
DUANE
IGNORE of him-he is ,corthy man.
MARSHALL.
Take him for all in all,
We meier shall look upon his like again.
VAN buren,.
He has every thing that an honest man should
not have: what an honest man should have, he
has nothing.
wooppuay.
| Do not talk of him, bat as property.
LIvINesToN,
Auti.or Of the Proclamation.
A man that love and honor with all my soul,
and my heart, and my duty, and my life.
JAMES BLAIR.
| A second Hector, for his grim aspect,
And large proportion ofhis strong built limbs.
| GILES.
| Such men as he, be never at hearts ease,
| While they behold greater than themselves,
| And therefore ,hey are exceeding dangerous.
RICHARD n. JOHNSON.
| Not Hercules could have Knocked out his
| brains, for he had none.
| CAss.
! He reads much-he is great observer.
| And looks quite through the deeds Of men.
Amos kEsDALL.
| This is slight, unmeritable man,
Meet to be sent Of Eirands,
| CALHOUN.
Farewell, long farewell 10 all my greatness;
/ This is the state Of man. To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope-to morrow blossoms
| Aud bears his blushing honors thick upon him;
| The third day comes a frost, chilling frost,
| And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is a ripening, nips his root,
And then he falls as do.
| BURR.
As arrant traitor any in the universal orld
or in France or in England.
BARRY.
Your voice shall be strong as any mans il
the disposing Of new dignitics.
| COOPER, Of South Carolina.
A most arch heretie--a pestilence
That doth infect the land.
DAVID CRocKETT.