Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-06-01

of1ke poet wandcrta. making wild but besa
l,ifal music of bis own, while he medi,ated thss
ldl1aA wkieA Sc bad irnrcdnced with such Gee
id bis hsedsoiionss Ani o Bhakspcss was b
laA am arissoera,s in his feelings, - we'll y -
adsIirer u the heroic FL sAbcth. might ve not i'm
aginc portrait Of he virgin queen upon The
mantel-piecc, painted in the style she would have
NEST approved-shat is 70 say, with ruff as large
as furbclow, and Chinese face and physicgno
my oil light and no shadow.
And there sits Shakspere! The expression 81
his figure is worthy of attention. Can i, be TINT
the weight of such world Of ideas has pressed
upon that cheerful, well,braccd frame' Bat he is
more than Hercules. he is Atlas himself, and to
him the load 10 no harden. Ills attitude, there
fore, is as buoyant us II nc had never been trout
led with thought beyond oi providing for the
enjoyment of the morrow. Today he is writing.
IL NAV be, the terrible close Of the tragedy OF
Lear or Othcllo, and ut night lac will bic to the
Mermaid. and hold tourney Of merrmept with
Ben Johuson: nay he has ALREADY dressed for the
occasion, and needs nothing more than bis cloak
and rapicr. OF truth, this j. the man who
wrote nearly forty dramatic productions. aud es-
teemed them so lightly rs not to be at the labour
Of collecting and revising thcm--wbose chief won
der must bayc been. that the world should wopd-
or ut him greatly
! But what shhll we say of his countenancc! 1t
lie, il onght to be, veritable likeness, AS far "a
the bust upon bis tomb at Stratford will guide US.
Tho lofty brow. the oval face, and curling locks
are there, without which no picture would be re-
cogniasa as likeness Of SHAKESPEARE. Bat His
model bust, which is iittis more than bard sur
face. has left enough to be filled up With the plas
ito powers Of painting; and to this opportunity
Mr.. Faed has not been found wanting. He has
therefore filled up tho outline with feature, char
acter and color, such rs the spirit of Shaksperes
own productions would suggest to thoughtful
mind aud in this way he has produced All IDEAL
ixed likeness ofthe sitter, such ms VIC feel must DO
a true ono The result is the perfection Of manly,
intellectual beauty aud while We perceive this,
We feel also tho conviction that nothing is exag-
gerated-that Shuksperc himself in his Study
could scarcely have looked Otherwise II is in
this the most important part Of The attempt, that
the Artist has been most successful. In u happy
moment he hos given US the true man, instead OF
a mere poetical dream. We did not want Shak
spero with wings, or among the Clouds hut that
gcual parsonage Of flesh aud blood to whom no
portion Of humanity was alien and there sits in
full corporea substantially, well rs intellectual
cxprcssiseness. Such Il likeness Of the great
bard OF human kind nightly ftly be admitted Into
any family collection.
With these brief remarks, wo dismiss charm.
ing and highly mertorious ehfort of art. We
have been the more briet and guarded in our mo-
tice, from the seductive nature Of tho theme ITSELF
which is npt to lsad tho mind astray over the
while field Of poetry, until tho starting point il
lost sight Of. But to the public ta-te and discern
mcnt at large. we think we can fearlessly commit
such superior production in palntng as Shaks
pero in his Study"
AS a fitting companion to the painting of" Sim.
kcspcarc in his study, Mr. Faed has favored the
public with "NIilton in his S,ndy" twas no,
only a natural. but happy thought which o,u
plod two such pictures, the one Of tho greatest u,
dramatic, the other Of epic poets and both alike
the children of favored England Compared with
these names, and that of Alfred, where can II
fourth be found, except perhaps tina. Of Newton
In Milton alone we havc Homer and Virgil com
blncd while with all their varied excellences, nc
embodes sentiments FAR beyond the reach of the
Greek and Roman. and inculcates truths which
they were notpcrmitsed to know See advertise
inent in another column
.
Ad,iccs have been received at WASHINGTON Cit,
from Mr.. pmlry, our Minister to Nicaragua,
with dates to the l3th OF Apr,L Ito had lett NJ.
nagua aud gone to San joe There was no ma
terial change in the aspect OF at.rs and scarcei,
any thing If interest transrirng, either in Mica
rasna or Costa Rica. In the lormer State tn,
con'es. WINS still guog on in regard to the ,tausl
routes. Tho objec, OF Mr.. Dm,ry's visit to Cos