Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1870-06-23

los-erestufessas Ne meet them. SSross
--lthejr paths. fhwart and are thxarse.i,
help aud are helped BY thea, in our daily
walk and conyarsation. Above ah wrs.
! ters ef 6is tsSc.. mt il Eaelsni ont kus
: n gEasopes Dieksss 6tss the Essj and the
foEp Of his creations from the rising
= world Of popular life aud character. He
's was born win TIE downfall ef fthat Frsnci
Z edsrffe whlch Md made N e1d cfshs IN.
cient regime - cans iata sss.,isssa Nth
i The prostration of that British aris.oeraey
4 by which the French empire had been
ovesthfowu. Before his Il no aske ES6n-
mon people. sersaass asas1ssdesaEA,
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/ ssasss !. ssse,I;s r.. |, -, $ snS :s5z VT f
] heroes and kerSines ii whod and N WN066
] fortunes che Muses. aiishs iuseress slisms
sslves. Tbis is as true Of Ris,diag . With,
1 AZ bis wide and genial appreciation /, Of
humanity in the abstract, as Of Scott,
| with bis passion FOR the picturesque and
| the noble. Dickens for the Grss time
ecmpeiled the reading world to take its
part in the pains and pleasures Of Low sud
| mean persons, OF footmen aud scallions,
of butchers and bakers and candlestick-
makers. The spirit of WorIsworth's po-
etry suffused aud informed his qusiut and
Humorous prose-. aD va@F- -sa
! p ''T,'e eonntnon growth Of Mother Earth
SGhiced for him; her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest nirth aud tears
| The time might have comc-pcrhaps
with some Of us the time had already
come-when these low ami mean persons
! might seem to crowd their betters too alb
solutely on, Of the great novelist's pages.
Dickens himself, indeed, had OF late years
attempted. though not with perfecs sue
cess. to intro luce among them certain
prop plrtion of what Tnackeray Was fond Of
calling "good company" But the spirit
in which he first made US familiar with
them was q wise. . deep, and . whole-
some spirit. Il was time that men should
be msds to see something in ths tramp
4 beside pair of feet to be set in the stocks,
something in the quack beside p1ir Of
hands IN fetch and carry. This some
thing Dickens sought autl saw in all Of
these, aud in the mighty disregarlei
classes to which all these belonged. This
something also he helped and charmed
and checrci the wo-..ii TO seek and to see
! Eat his heart was in the work of his
genius the whole of his public career as
man of action amoug his ows;attes.s.
Gifted wish singular dramatic faculty in
speech, and with voice which, it not
pleasing exactly, was peculiar and in its
way effective. he frequently appeared on
the platform both OF politics AMI OF social
reform. and always as an advocate OF
things enlightened, liberal. aud humane.
Yet he neither was, nor, strangely
enough. c,n We remember that he ever was
accused Of being, demagogue; nor did
he seek to achieve for himself . place
higher or more clittering in the eyes of
the world than shat which his peu and
the genius which it served assured to hun.
Indeed, he recognized no place as higher.
He was Ensland's leading man Of letters,
not so much because OF his vast popular
'ity or because he transcended all his con-
temporaries, either in original power or
in his literary faculty. as bee ,usc he was
prouder than any other Englishmaa of
his profession, more devoted to it. more
exacting for it, more content with its
honest opportunities and with its natural
rewards. "
i Among these natural rewards, that
upon which he seemed 10 set least value
was The social recognition which, in all
civilized countries. now attends 80 prompt
iy and in such full measure the triumphs
Of the intellect. There ran through his
nature, as indeed no careful reader of his
works need be reminded. vein OF delight
in the simple jovialiiies Of uuconvention-
al life which controlled for the most part
his tastes and habits in the matter Of his
relations with society in general. Bat
the true life Il the ma1 was in his wri-
tmgs, and through them he was as home
with all sorts aud conditions Of men,.
Aud now tha: he has gone it is by all
sorts and conditions of men that his de-
parture is u,ourued to-day. that his loss
will be felt for manya day and ssonth
and year to come. {qoY ~sv -f
The Qleen of England, at whose cour,
he had never cared to present himself,
bu, ir whose refined ani cultivated home
+ A nc Uccu WcfCpWch a. tctsoVcu
u gaess, has honored his high position and
herself by pablic expression Of her sor-
row q. her aud Eng!and's iuss. Busy
, London will pause from its going to
and fro, aud from its hesping ur
and scattering abroad of golden hoards
to wait in revercnt silence upon tho pas-
Il sing of his funeral train. Bai the deep
. est homage aud the most enduring paid
TO his genius aud 10 the noble uses which
. be made Of i. will be the void FELT Of al
: men in tha, world OF letters in which &c,
. MUS such as his makes spring-sims O
blossoms aud summer of fruits.
In the longing aud desire of thousand
, | in many lands. the books lac shall nevel
|, write will praise -hsyesi al words of 9th
/ ers the books which he has written ant
= tie man who wrote them A. 'Nfz.tL
The siien; organ losdes, chants
: The masters re2gieH."
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