Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-01-08

fist struck against his red eyes, before he had
time to make bis spring, and in the language
of the turf she punished him. till bis eyes
were swelled up, and the half blind, stupefed
brute was led to bis accustomed lair, to have
his swellsd head fomented, and cared for oy
that very Emily herself. The generous dog
owed her no Crude; he loved her dearly ever
after; lie walked first among the mourners to
her funeral; be slept moaning, for nights, at
the door of her empty room, and never, so TO
speak, rejoiced, dog fashion, after her death.
He, in his turn was mourned over oy the sur
viving sister. Let US somehow hope, IN han
Red Indian creed, that he follows Emily now;
and, when he rests, sleeps on some sft white
bed of dreams, unpublished when he awakens
to the life of the land of shadows"
Critics have set themselves earnestly to
work to pick out the flaws in the diamond
writings OF Charlotte Bronte-oays her bios-
rapher pithily, "The world heartily. greedIly
enjoyed the fruits Of Miss Bronte's labors, aud
then found out she was much to blame for
possessing such faculties" 20 Bot We see IN
reading her life, how utterly impossible it
would have been for either of these sisters to
write otherwise than ehe did. We cannot
but see how fierce a reality to them was life,
and that they must speak from the abundance
of the heart" whose experiences had been of
the most chilling and mourntul, (rerhaps even
embittering,) kind. They took up the burden
of life with brave spirit, but never hopeful
one,-they were not trained to hope, but only
sEatl nf in
burning words
She says:
at is we'll that the thoughtlrss critics who spoke
of the sad and gloomy views of life presented by
the Brontes in their tales, shonld know how such
words were wrung out of them by the living re-
collection OF the long agony they suffered 1t ia
we'll too that they who have obi 'cte'i to fhe re-
Or santaton of coarseness and shrank from 1t nth
repugnance IF such conception ost of the
uriters should learn, hat not from the imagination
not from internal conception from the harp
cruel f.cts, pressed down by external life upon
their rUerU senses, TOR long months and years to-
gether, did they urite out Uh"t they saU, o6eying the
stern dictates of their consciences They might b.
mist ken. They might err in writing at all, when
their affections so great that they coul not
write otherwise than, as they did OF life. 1t Is
possible that it would have ben better, to have
described good and PLEASANT people, doins Only
good and pleasant things, lin which case they could
never, bell did women possessed of such
wonderful gifts exercise them with a fuller cling
of responsibility for their use."
$50 utterly unconscious was Miss Bronte, of what
was by some esteem coarse il her VIKINGS that
one occasion. when the conversation turned up
won ms writing fiction-sh" said, 10 h or we,
E, arrest way. i hope God will take away from me
what vrr power of invention, or expression may
have, before he lets me become blind to the sense
of what is fitting or uniting to be said
And thus with noble independence ''Cur-
rer Bell" alludes to her critics:
"Come what will, che s,ys, 81 cannot, when
write, THU always of myself, and of what is ee-
CANT and charming in femnini.y; it is not on thes
terms, with such ideas that ever took pen in
hand; and if it is only th-se terms my writing
will be tolerated. shall pass away from the public
and trouble it no more"
81 wish all reviewers believed to be man;
they would be NOR just to me. Tn will, know,
ke' p measuring me by some standard of What they
dem becoming to nv sex; whore am not what
they consiier graceful, they will condemn me.
mo matt-r-whether known unknown-ms
Judged or the contrary-I am resolved not TO
write otherwise. shall bend as my po,Osrs tend
The two human beings who understood me
gone; have some who love me yet, and whom l
love, without expecting having a right to expect
they shall perfecty understand M. an stti-6''';
bat naust have my aOay ia the matter Of writ
ing"