The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-14
believe implicitly, as long as he is dealt fairly


.Yet, though st. George and the Dragon, Ali
nun a ~. il. isorS Of snsiun ere nTe ssdes s5 edas
and degrees Of belief in his own mind both as re-
CARDS the domains Of fact and fiction, which he
sensible, yot on which he unconsoiously acts: SOL
or Chronicle in it's own due place. and giving to
or indifferent. a child in good sound health Is in
satiaby curious, his thirst for fiction of one shape
or oshes ,s guenchless and if he never asks guess
stalk,' or tho Lad who went to the North Wind
there IS screw loose somewhere other; he is in
morbid pnhe althy state Of body or mind, proba-
bly, OF both; his natural growth aud tastes, as a
child, arc becoming stunted mud diseascd forced
INTO solne narrow, petty channel where ignorance
or blsotry Will soon blot out the freshness, grace
and light, that are childhoods most precious pos
sessions" ~, G r.17 sl,T
Mr.. Henry Crabb Robinson, one Of the earliest
1,id ~, most devoted OF Goethe's Englsh admirers
Che had 1nado the great poets acquaintance early
in the century, at Weimar), one OF the coterie Of
Colerdgc, the attached friend Of Lamb, died in his
February l. 70 was man Of great force re- f,I. Of puT
pose and general vigor of character. He was prob
ably the last survivor among the friends Of Goethe
Wordsworth, southey, ,coleridge, Charles Lamb,
and all that eminent school Mr.. Robinson
nten%ea nsTe top Of the n Bf st. but Re da M
XXssf XeaTfs q activity as. as e. Mnexspapes eoEFsspoa
ueA9. Nc was 1uGlulaColy connected WITH the
late NJ: Walter, and was o special correspond
ent of the Times in this capacity he WAS with the
army at Corrunna. Having Independence, he did
yenrs he led q literary life in London, among q
host Of friends, who were attached by his kindness
Of heart and Attracted By his power Of CONVERSE
historian Of the eminent men with whom his earlier
life was passed. His Sunday breakfast parties and
9ho ons na
the most amusing hours of their lives. He was
grandly intolerans Of literary slight put upon his
Of Lamb as symptom ofmoral disease, and ridicule
of Wordsworth, even from o lady, us the fruit Of
natural depravity. No one stood up for his friends
moro ably, generously and constantly or assailed
what lie thought worthy Of censure with more
open and cordial blows. In literature and art the
brought character Of much more than the usual Ia,
| strength, of considerable humor, and of absolute
naturalness, to bear upon subjects which often
trsated with the mannerism and fnesse Of sensi-
bility. Mr.. Robinson WINS for more than thirty
Gars an active nehseT s s IS So long as his aee
mitted tho connecting link between the Council
and the Professors. He preserved his faculties his
as sa bap
but even in this there was much recovery in the last
years of his Life friend who, during the last sum-
that the work went on very slowly; every Book had
its history and suggested it's anecdotes Until three
days before his death he was at to open on any sub
Jcct; on that day the loss OF strength occasioned
by slight attack of sciatica began to show itself
with decided effect; he soon became unconscious,
! and passed away on Monday evening with hardly
any suffering. Robinson wrote very little.
His longest tract was on the subject Of his friend
Ciarllson, in controversy in which the Bishop OF
Oxford and others took part. He will be we'll re-
membered as long as those are alive who enjoyed
his conversat on; but unless the diary which it is
will soon be forgotten This ought not to be; for
he was man Of mark, not only by his own talents,
but by the close connection Of his name and life
With the career of very large number Of his cele
| brated contemporaries. s4.;. .:s$s IN ss