Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-12-30
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AZ once DER Avon's side,-
While gentle summer sheds her bloom,
And dewy blossoms wave
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which drew from Mr. Washington Alston the following toast in
tended to indicate Mr. Dickeus's 'prOpletic fame"
The Prophetic Rdren-who only spoke pory when he
cried " Never say de- to Dnnaby Rudge
a. And lastly, what did II. II. Dana SEM mean whom Gter
the deep potaon suppose no had imbbed, he said
that from the works Of Mr. Dickens he had derived joy,
after hour and than thnt in reading many his
passages he had felt that doocr than JOY" Was
he trying to be 4" too deep for Boz''-or howi
Thus ondoth the catechsm. But would still further hint
"vemoner'' difficulty feel in accounting for expressions
in sundy letters written the Dinner Committee, which
cannot well explain tho deep poatOn" theory How
W. IL Prescott regret that he could that occasion Join
in the homage this foreigner whose writings had
secured him such deserved consideration in the Republic of
tes Why should the lamoned Dr. Claiming speak of tho
many sympahies" ho felt with the admirers of Dickens land
why should Doctor Stuart, Moses Stuart d. d., of Andove,
send so "pasi,ing" toast as this -
"The Star from East which thrilled many hearts
with joy by its rndance aud scattered light many dark
places filed with the hHbtntons of cucnay equal spendor
attend its remaining aud its setting he in heaven of UNI
cloudcd glory"
These things say puzzle mo- do many others which have
not space mention. find it easy matter TO explain
them the principle Of aerdnne excitement, which Yer
montor" commends There another thing which he o.
most mystfc though think recolcc faotS well fcr bis
perfect Bozmnna is exalted fearful height in
his fancy picture. lie represents the feedngs s,ufusss
dancings and such like entertainments inflicted upon Boz
countless in number and of enormous magnitude Ar the
New York foast saith Vermontc" there is pace Tor
Dickens while romnins
vigorously bceged with invitations feed dance, nd shcw
himself in various other interesting attitudes lin al which, by
the wny he ever keeps nm eve TO the solid pudding, of cop
rght) till his umpha procession through the lind is finished,
nn6 he bids fns ndiou" Verify would think that tho
supposed words Of Weller SENIOR Mr. Mayor Chapman,
when tho Amcrke (ancies they makes
him into real pie and dowours him . and that utter this ient
cal Mr. Dickens had been entertained. but really, now,
docs Vormonier mean TO say what he seems -at every
village between Boston and New York had ced the strnn
cor and that ba ,umbo, of ,csc o,s,s dc6os all
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isb diyeouIo thinks too tim, peken, ought not to be
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certainly by Adam, for if the gentleman hud
never been born venture to assert that Dickens never
would have existed in his shape and sizcwoud
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But if did refer his spiritual philosophy Vermont
e NAV wish to know what did mean by language
than That of man worsp uttered by the reception given
Dickens answer them that to my mind style
of tina, though it may have been By
much bud uste-bookened disposition to pay due
Literary Worth on its own account to act nowledge the power
nd tho dignity of commanding Genius to confor upon man.
who hud no wealth. no rank nothing elicit applause
bv cns of soul his God had given him. proud honors and
eoouen, before only upon men who had climb
ed TO the height Of gods upon pyramids of cocs they piled
nm TO saw here man who with the simplest ns,ru
men in the whole world had proclaimed and enforced the rights
of Mnn with more effect than all the Declarations of Indopcn
dence ever peuned No Senatorial thunder hao
loudly the great fact Brotherhood Man, any
of cannon ever shaken oppression did this
writer with his simple fiction To show US the worth of human
,y he took the whole world by tho hand and led us-uot to the
LOFTY halls of Wealth and of Pde-bu to tho
the London to the den the
ways on this great Enhour Mother
M and on whose all down in peace when evening
comes There he pointed us to rags and to hollow cheeks and
cruelty and crime and all black forms of misery and SIM But
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sentence that he breathe, il 10 on, and in the heat
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