Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1845-08-21
"pEN AND PENCIL SKETCHES.

MEMORIES OF TnoMAs CAMPBELL.

| MEMORIES or THoMAs CAMPBELL.
Turning aside from ,hs, living stream. which day and
night hows necessarily through one Of those great are
rial trunks OF Iondon-the Sirand-we arrived al Tho
Adephi. aud, threading the suites Of In which
were deposited suudry and divers specimens Of asca
ingenuity, arrived at the which were deposited
those rlnmphs OF genius which the CHIEF glores u
The place.
II never weary of hooking al these pictures of Barry -
remarked Campbe and il is really dspracefnl Ia many
VINO navel On the connont and hunt up Michael An
geo. that they have not studied al their doors; Tor
ut some portions o these productions the great master
himself might not be asaamad
"I@uk AT that figure ol the Archangel guarding the
gales oi Pafadlse' said he Che picture We vera VA
z,ng on was tina, of Eyiun) "Canova said Of /, tina,
home possessed nothing superior Of s kind | hear
hlm declare al Rogcrss that he would have visited lon-
don 10 have seen thai picture only. bad he been aware
OF It's existence. And ye." added Campbell. with
sne'rahd his sheer WAS peculiarly grim aud Disagree
able oneBarry seldom studied by our Young artists
who fancy that ,he hume school OF arr is ony prepa
aioy one, whereas many VI them would be better il they
finished where they had begun +"
we spent upwards nj an hnur in looking at these pro-
dncllone but II would be impossible convey paper
any idea OF Campbes verbal criticisms lafrys pic.
lures. these were nletspersed with remarks On many
oi oui living and dead artists hut the touches too
hne and subtle 10 be Transferred To type. nterw ards
learned that Canpbcll very fond of accom- any ing
strangers 10 the Adelph indeed partial was he 10
these paintings OF Barry that he employed Stohara I"
are now at Glasgow University, of which he was q.
ected Lord Rector in 1927.
Whilst we were srolllng about the gallery he asked
me several questions about The city Of my birth On my
mentioning Bristol, he said, with raising Of his eye
brows-
"Ah TIE place that starved out Chatlerton and where
Savage was buried"
The same" remarked, "snd that which had the
honor OF producing Sir Thomas Lawrence and Rob-
ert Sonthry"
tBut IL ,dn Econ to,n ,norna,ad IN. n,o,
Chalierlon did quite right 10 lash the sugar huckserng
suns o the modern Bn1tia. By the way, Bristol has
not the best report in literary history Tor treatment Of
'hors Chalterton was not out of his embryo existence
whilst there, but Savage very age against IL you
know. Colen1ge spoke against it in my hearing nj
fighgaie IN ls22. Hume has n hit al the pmr city for
writing about Crazy NayIor the Quakes entrance into
H. while women stromed the road IN imitation o Chrlsps
entrance into Jerusalem, he says 'he rode upon horse
though one can hardly conceive it difficult Ia find
IN BRISTOL or something To that effect. With respect,
TO poor Chat,eron, the place will be everlaslingy dis.
eraced Tor causing his solemn agony. as Shelley calls
his last itghiiul struggle"
"lon forgot, sir" vcntured to say, "lhat no was
starved out of existence in London"
Like thousands more WIN come here TO write up
their iortunes,n he replied ''but what is than
ALL" he continued, "hs native city. which gave him
no bread whilst living, has refused him stone since his
death"
informed Campoell tia, that stigma was abou, 10 10
| removed, for morument was then In contemplation.
lie inquired respecting the lnscription-and inform
ed him that there 10 be five; one by ulhey,
by Walter Savage Iantor, third by one who should
be nameless, the fourth side of the monument to be in.
scrbed with the name, age, &c of the boy poet and on
the filth tablet, the following epilaph, written by hun
self, when he contemplated suicide:
"Reader, judge not, if thou art Christian believe
that he sjneged by superior pow 10 tina. power alone
is he answerableo
"Good - said Canpbe "tlere is no need of any 9th
eptaDh. SouthpV y landuf's the MIGHT ~
been spared"
| mentioned to Campbell that my mothers school.
mistress Mrs Newton, Chaiierlon's only sister;
and that had been for time engaged in editing
edition of the works OF tho Poet t You will walk
50 lar Paterhos'er Row." said, 81 can show you
some of Chaertons unpublished manuscripts. and por
trait of him." Ie chceriully assented; we lief, tho A.
delphi together, and, beiue long, in the bounda.
res Of booksellers.
We entered the shop Of publisher with VIII ON was
acquainted: suspect that derived little mpor
lance from ass,callng with Campbell Tor considerable
attention paid to attentions 10 which had pre-
vlousy been stranger
On showing him the portrait Of Chatlerlon the bard
of Hope expressed himself as being highly graied, and
after looking at it for minutes, he said, Poor
child it Is strange and striking counienance, but II is
the face of whu should have said would become
insane" lie also remarked that il was wonderfully like
Keats, painted by Severn.
The conversation then turned on Chaerloh's acknow
lcdoed pfodu lions
''fs powers Of description We're great" he remarked,
and he repeated the following "Wntero ex'
ample
"Pae rugged Winner, bending DER ms tread
His grizzled hair bedccked with icy dew;
His eyes--a du.ky light, CONCEALED and deadj
His robe-a tinge Of light, ethereal blue;
ellis irain--a motley, sanguinc, .abled cloud,
lie mps along the russell dreary moor,
While rising ahitlw nds blasting, keen, and loud,
Roll the white surges TO the sounding shore"
"IIere again.. he continued sis nice distinction and
a sharp Bit of satire: IL in his distinction VI Two
rval organiss. OF one he says
"sncrcd to sleep is his inverted key,
DtH-doictih didpasons die o,cay."
And of The Other
GLOW unlike Allen Allen is divine
His touch is Sentimental. tender, fine,
He Keeps the passions Nth The sound IN play,
.4,dthe soul henibes tcith the trembling key
As we proceeded up Ilobora the way back 10 his
chambers passed Brook street.-the street IN which
the marvellous buy committed suicide, and the circums
of the poets death adveried to. 81 hadn
ly wonder his fate" remarked Campbell, tor no sits
nation can possibly be more deporable han that OF
neglected author, whose daily bread depends M pen
for whose productions he cannot find market" This
led 10 remarks suicide but uttered as they were
amidst the whirl Of great thofoughtae. lost much Of
what was sad for Campbell APPEARED to be lalkng
TO hmsefthan ] can only remember such snatch.
es as the following
.Sometimes," said he, 81 have gloomy comfort in
being nearer the end of my life than was when com
menced authorship and have consequently more linn
tied tourney to c,ine Sir Thomas Browne says: 1T is
the heaviest stone melancholy fling at man 10 tell
him he is at the end Of his lne.' tie was think, rah>
er abiding 10 the extension of life beyond death; but
think there comfort in such notwithstanding for
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