New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-04-17
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solely hat you behold it s dazzling incarnation 0: hu-
man SOUL
Through Rachel have seen the checs-doryre Of Cor
nellie and Racine, Reproduced By her on The French stage
whence since the death Of Taa they mad beeen banised
The following IS slight bat full and spirited
sketch of another grea. object of which many are
pratiling and SO few bring away one correct i'm
preston:
Frenchman, than other dependent aPon
things without himself. Nature and his own mind with
domestic interests and recreatons, enough
p!ete his daily circle For his best enjoyment he must have
succession fictitious exceeTs. on Of this want Pa
rts ha grown 70 be he capital Of the world for superficial
sluseneuts Here are he appliances ana c
versoed with the keenest refinement OF sensual ingenuity
for keeping the mind busy without labor and fascinated
without sensonty TIE senses are beset with p!quan
bats. Whoever has money IN his purse and can satisfy
through gold BIS chief need have little thought OF the
day or the year de finds life I'll prepared for him, and
selects IT, as be does his dinner from tie voumnous carte
Of the Restaurant. To live. for him easy te make
music hand-oryan with but slight physical effort
from himself he is borne along from week 10 week and
from season en- unresug current OF diversions
pass years without safety and the
slothfu without snnui Paris is the Eysur OF the dler
and for barren mi ds a Paradise.
In the following extrac; a state Of society is anti
cipa,ed, Of which those who are favored with
the personal acquaintance Of the author will re-
cal himself as one Of the surest harbingers
As inequality in mental faculties among men lie law o.
nature, the idea OF best society real and VIII go
Tnanes;ing Itself and distinctly, working con-
stauty upward through impure materials. The mind VII!
by degrees straghten selfino better proportions. Fac
titious and grossybooned distinctions VIII be efaced
In country have comprised vantage-ground Of
liberty whence to ascend 10 higher platforms Of social con-
dition Grossly 90 they undeTae the worth Of liberty
who regard security Of person and property equality before
the law freedom Of speech and Of printing as It's ripe fruit
These but the foundation for broader and more beau
Through them the mind Will GRACE its
wings and sharpen It's vision for wider sweeps into the DO
main OF the possible and expanding with unrestricted In
er-conmunon, brightness and benefcence Proofs
ths progress dscernibe in the easier emancipation
from sousmotheTDg customs and In the ongngs and hopes
the fIeest minds. In this higher organization the gen.
teman will Of course not be wanting fer no wedevel-
oped society could be without him, in whom, Spenser
sings,
1.-The gentle mind by gentle deed is known."
Let those who regret the decay Of the odashoned
Geman because the newfashoned being coarse imi-
tston Of him. is, like all limitations failure, take hope
that there Of higher fashion possible and already
forming, IN whom poeness being the offspring Of love
and beauty shall borrowing OF fssehood in whom
refinement shall the superficial show Of convention
al discipline but spontaneous emanaion from the pur-
Ned mind courtesy be free from pride. and elevation BIO
enjoyed by right neither Of pedigree Pluus but solely
by natural endowment, be acknowledged ungrudgngy
difference Of stature and sit the possessor as uncon
sciousy flowers stacks and like them dispense beau
y all around.
We must not omit the mention Of the visit to
Colerdge's former home, sacred to us one of the
few spots in the world where genius has been offer
ed an asylum by dsinterested love, and noble
heart sheltered from the storm, through the brother
ly aid of fellow men, before IL araS too late.
From this endles. thropg withdrawn yesterday to
n scene sketch of which will know have for you espe
cal interest drove Hghgate Ill., and aligh,ed at the
house of Mr.. Gilman From the servant whe opened the
door learnt that he had been dead several months Mrs
Gilman was at home shown into a neat back draw
Ing where elderly lady in deep mourning.
apologized for having 10 her house ii my only
OF getting tidngs OF one had known well many
before in Gottingen. and who, was aware, had been
friend pupil Mr. Coleridge during hts stay under her
roof She made sign TO the servant TO withdraw and
then gave way to her emotion. IAN gone, all gone II
the only words she could al first utter. My friend
had been dead many years then Colcdge and lastly her
husband. was much moved Mr. had been son
TO her 10 have been intimate with him was favorable
introduction herself. She showed me several OF Mr.
Gilmans books flied with notes In Cocridges handwrf
ting from which are many passages of The Re
mains another his bust and In another
fine picture by ASTON given by him TO bis great friend
She nut into my hands sonnet in manuscript written and
her by Aston the death Of Colcge,the most
beautiful thing Of the kind ever read.
Ia ,ho third story is the chamber opened by the most
cordial and honorable friendship TO the nstrous suefer
and by him occupied for many years There was the bed
whercon lie died. From the window looked out over
valley upon Caen Wood Here his lusrous eyes nxed ID
devout medtaon Colerldge was wont to schod the sum
set Mrs. Gilman tired not Of talking of him. nor of lis
tening thought, how happy, with all his chsgrins and
dsanpointens had been in finding such friends. on
speaks them They could sympathize with the phoso-
pher and the poet well with the man. Mrs Gmans
talk told Of with OF Engands richest minds
To me bright hour and with feelings OF more than
esteem for It's lonely inmate quilted the roof where In
his afflicted old age the author OF Chrsabel had found
loving shelter. In again In the whirl
The metropolis shall bear away from Il no more
vivid grateful recollection than that Of yesterdays visit
Few men Lave had more genius than Co!eridee more
learning uprghtacss, and in tie writings of ncie
Is there more soul. His poetry will live with as language
As prose writer he is conscientious seeker of TRUTH
luminous expoundcr OF the mysteries OF life and the car
student Of his pages without accepting In iu either
his Theology, or his Philosophy, or ms Politics. Hnds nm
self warmed Instructed and exalted.
In fine e, all tourists be encouraged by this book
to q confidence, that even where no stone has been
left unturned in the field treasure still lies hidden
for reward of him who goes armed with the divn'
ing rod OF reason, and the magic spells of sympa
,hes and perceptions strengthened and refined by
true manly culture of the philosophic mind and po
etc heart. X