Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1853-11-18


make the 7, ader fee, there is strong amid all
In his various love stories, and especially in Don
Juan. we see, with the change Of me;tr, an in
crease Of act ctiyty; he moves more briskly through
he iaunty ottara Tina was reading Don Juan
lately in public conveyance afcl!ow passenger
in a straight jacket Of principle, with an everc a
Of philosophy, gave me good advice when ne
saw me reading the book and young man near |
me looked anxiously after his carIe Lag, fell /
I was reading prescribed beck. Yet It's won
derful wit struck me more than ever. But, II
wanted to sweat down boy a. Jockey is sweat /
ed down for race, if wanted TO teach him con
tempt for his heaven born ins ircts, that wcrk Is
the first class book would give him. Yet BY
ron is read Why? Chiefly, think, Tor ms
in. ense power of expressing PASSION. lie alone
/ it is who can speak of g wrtaking his tho ghts
rpon expression :" he is also capable of renlne
! his heart to tenderness he can he aS natural as
he ever was in the hours Of his beau;linl chl.o
hood And !Len his lar Oh how cant and cew-
artce sink away before it and his worldly WIS
dom ga hered in hat brilliant life, whose ran
nels he had brol, n th,Creh without mindir th'
/ bolts But thoueh he knows the goodness tie
| purify the dtlicacy the truth OF home aiiec ION,
-t houeh he feels their loneliness though gliicd
with the power of touching their springs, he
! sncers at them and mocks his better naure.
! Byron has never had q successful imii ator
! nei her among English poets nor American mock
| ing birds Others such a. Wordsworth, have
been successfully nn cd. Byron ncve-; the
reason is because he was rue to natut. Iic
has one merit he herod to disenchain poetry
/ from the f.tters of Grub st. His was part OF
] - raT,1-
and was one of the dan lies of the Nineteenth
/ Century. The ordinary dandy may be despised
but the true species, The Bromneils, DO.says
and Byrons, have in them an iron grasp, ofwhlch
let the common dandy beware! Alc-b'ad 5 was
a world vi Augustus. Wellington said ha
i The dandies were his best officers. Sir HrmIETe!
Il Davy and Lord Palnerston were dandies in their
/ day, and Lord Byron, Of all o hers, shed halo
over the dandyism OF he 10 century. Ee says
he is no. one of them though they were always
very civil TO him, and that he had a tinge of .ht
dandy in his minority. lie was always shrewd
business man. His letters 20 Murray show this
I do not think that i IS going too Ear to couple his
name with Shakespoar as the two creates masters
of expires sion in the English language. Travellers
have noticed that ere line Of Byron exhaus.s
'andscape better than Ia-es of ourist. II,
f ays his hand upon the oceans name ;; he tells
b BOW,
: From pet's TO per',. tae rattlng crags among
=. Leaps The 1--we lhInier:
lor him the breathing marble
~Con-eats 10 de 'th and conqueTs agony"
Say what we viii, the voices Of the world
: lave him the frs: poet of the I9.h century
tie gea,est English poet since Nil on.
q The Life of Moore, BY the ez Premier of Eng
land brings his name more iie-hly into rlmem
b~ancc. The excess of beauty n Moo-e's poetry
f had almost worn out our sens Lih;ies. His molo
dies have fixed themselves in he soul of every
English speak, ~ YOU a IL maidea, fom N,
IIlbridcs TO our Wcs ern prai:es. No ma II
could ask youth to turn a leaf for her at the
piano wi hout shortly af CT inyi iog him to -
in his BOSOM - or ghrg for bright Ii tie isle
of our own" Thus the piano cf en- changed
, lodgings and tie ass and toner voices cCm
: monccd di ty which they have never coa,ed
since. Il is in .hevcry nature of things that re
iiion such as this should At last induce indilIer
enco, as the singing of plan S in old times, from
: being so common at last ceased % be heard. BE
sides when there Is good ar, II viii take very
{ little Of a song TO call out the handkerchiofS.
- Thus true sorgs have been driven away from the
e piano by pieces cf pa ehwor<. Moore Is III
greatest mas cr of the lyer collect the lyrical
extIencIes of all other English poe's and he alone
can equal the sum. The key to this success may
c be found in the strong talent for music which he
( himself tells us he possessed. Moore's true cha
rac;er is only known since his dCa Il. lie
, as we might have guessed man of society but
: he left dearest Bessy" behind hn-at which
# she perhaps well pleased. But 1t Is much
{ TO know that the Anac con for whom Byron
t blushed was kind and faithful husband and an
. affcctiona. e son. Thrice week lie wrote his
5 mother except when IN America and Bornuda
!; and from the same source flowed the waters o
Y true, deep. unchanging affection for his wife
0 Thus he always returned to his home with a
o fresh feeling Of delight. His affection a a her
was no less genuine the fac of his children
q hrew a gloom the last years of his life.
4 give a double decomposition, that it may bt
: known hat while some are worse than they seem
H. ..,e Ueurrs VINO seem worse than they are
To Moore, above all other English Poets, two
q words appy-grace and melody
I The prevailing clement in his intellect was fan
cy; he perhaps more than any o,her pee
E shows how much can be done by fancy and how
n much it fails 20 do. The charcier of fancy is
G delica'oly sensuous. ard he makes not only
e sound but all the impressions Of the senses
c articua C he is
5 SO !elicately wrought
5 That you might almost say body thought
The danger of fancy is IS taking the place Of
a the higher power of imagination. More than two
r hundred me; ;aphors were counted in his =. Life o.
3 Sheridan" l noticed how the dying Gertrude