The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-08-27
NUMBER 1s.2

tone of soft regret, Of delicate compas-
sion which pervades his writings. You
retire from the bard fight Of y ur dali,
ayocaton, aud when you come home he
sings to you as q geht'e minstrel. He
hurt nobody, aud. feeling that notody
had right TO hurt creature so harm.
less, you feel the same indignation on
hearing Of the hardships he endured ,h.t
you would feel ON seeing woman in
suited or child assaulted. lie had va
rious foibles, but if we admire Fielding
Tor the courage with which he resisted
The blows OF adverse fortune, so also
ought we TO commend the gentler Gold
smith, whom no severe buffet could de-
prive Of his original kndlinc.s, lie WIS
never SO friendless that he could not be
friend to somebody; he would pawn
his coat to pay the debt Of his landlord,
and if he had nothing but his flute lefi
he would use that to amuse children
In spite Of his great sulferings he never
INDUCED in complaints, or a, any rate he
oblilera,ed, all thoughts ofrepining when
the immediate pressure was gone. When
men Of inferior ability were preferred
before him, and were patronized accord
ing to the fashion of the day, he was
now. and then iltls peevsh bu, who
could be angry with Lin on that &c.
count! Even the fault which he COM
m,ted while under the tyranny Of the
pal,ry booksellers of his sge---the mis-
appropriation of some books that had
been intrus,ed to him - might be regard
ed with compassion, if not with forgive
ness, considering the ,emptaiioH to which
he was exposed "Cover the face of
the good man who has been vanquished,
and-pass on"
This being the last lecture Of the
course. Mr.. Thackeray took leave Of his
hearers by observing that when he had
projected his lectures he had not antlci'
paed an assembly so distinguished. and
by eniarging somewhat on point, in
which, he said, he differed from several
members of his own fraternity. lie had
never participated in The opinion that
men Of letters were neglected in tlls
country. and in the face of such an as.
sembly il would be ingratilude Tor him
TO change his sentiments. The various
writer's of whom he had treated in his
course had derived all they possessed
from their talent alone, and when they
had severely suffered it was IN conse-
r"ance of ihnse habits Of rscklessness
which would have entailed suffering on
persons engaged in any other calling
An author must pay his talor's bill and
comply with the usages of society as
much as any other man, or lie must take
the consequences. Ordinary pecuniary
difficulties are shared by rising authors
in common with the beginners in the
civil and military professions and the va
rols departments of trade, and we have
struggling barristers and midshipnfeh as
well as struggling poets AS Tor society
despising a man because he is an author,
il is not the case. The estimation i'll
which any individual is held must de-
pend upon himself aud il he chooses 10
be the buffcon Of society he mus. not
grumble because he is treated as nothing
more. Again, care should be taken not
to confound the neglect OF this or that
individual with that Of all entire pros
fession-a mistake too often committed
by literary men. Captain A. does not
think, because he is not invited 10 GER
tain fashionable party. that the whole
army is in danger If the author is
angry because he is not rewarded, Ike
Mat Prior, with an ambassadors posi-
il he is seeking to be paronized by So
cieiy, let society laugh at his 'sei-suilic-
iency and give him a diuner, which is
evidently what he Graves; let II laugh
a, his marlyrdom, and still 9 We him
dinner. The world is just aud grateful
in the aggregate, and if it is met by real
talent, with bold front, a real reward
may be obtained, as we find in the case
/ of the best ofihe "humori-ts - Times.
GEr OUT.-It will be remembered that
an amusing story vas published, short time
ago, of a as Slow Rail Road in Michigan.