New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-18
EMERSON on WEBSTER.
Emerson 10 CARLYLE. 1889.

cannot tell Won how glad | am that you have
seen my brave senator, and seen him ~ ] see him.
All my days have wished that he should 20 Ia
England. and never more than when ] listened two
or three times debates in the House of Commons.
We send out usually mean persons rs public agents
mere partsaus. for whom can only hope that no
man with eyes will meet 'hem; and now those
thirsty ewes those poTtTat-raIng portrait painting
eyes of thine, those iatal perceptions, have fallen
full on the grcai forehead which ! followed about
all my young days, from court house TO Senate
chamber from clucus 10 street lie has his own
sins no doubt. Is no saint, IL a prOdIgal He has
drunk this of Party 100 50 long that hls stroI g
head IL soaked sonnet mes even like The soft spong f.
but the "man's man Tor a that Better, he is a
great bOy-as wliul, ~ nOi chal1nt and good
hunOred. But you must hear hun speak. not show
speech which he does well. but with cause no
can strike a stroke like smith. ! owe 10 HIM n
hundred fine hours and two or three moments of
ElOqucnCc. His voice IN great house Is admirable.
| am sorry If you decided not 10 visit him. He loves
n man, too / do not know him. but my brother Ed
ward read law with HIM and loved HIM, and after
ward III lex and unfortunate days received the
steadIest Kindness I ON him.
CARLYLE's PICTURES or D'ORsAY AND OF Ian
DOR.
Cdrivie 70 EnerIon. lsiO
As to the Dorsey portrait. 1t IL "A real curiosity !;
Count DOrHay, the emperor OF European daudics
pOnrayiug the pIO phct OF spiritual Sansculotti,m
He came rolling down hthcr one day, many months
ago III lis n-chariOt, 10 the bcdaZZlcmcut of all
by ISLANDERS; found me IN dusty gray-pluId dress
mg-gown. grim as the spirit OF Presbylcranism
INV Wife saiI and cOntrIved TO get along well
enough with me | found nm man worth talking
TO- and away man of decided natn-
raj gifts: every uttelanCH OF his containing ln IL "a
wild caricaurc likeness OF some object other "a
dashng man, who might, some twenty years sooner
born, have become one of BOnapart"s maTshals
and 49, alas-COunt DOrsayl The Portrait he
dashed oil in some twenty minutes Il was dining
there to meet Landorl; we have not CHANGED
TO meet together slucc, and | refused to undergo
any more O'Clock dinners for such an object Now.
if do not send you the Portrait, after AM . a..
OF Lander have not got much benefit either. We
met first, some four years ago, on Cheyne Walk
here, TALL broad. burly man, with gray hair and
large, herce-rOlling eyes: of the most restless inn
pctuOus vivaciy not to be held in by the per-
iect bTeedlng-eHpressing itself III hIgh-cOlOrod
superlatves indeed IN reckless exaggeratiOn now
and then III dry sharp laugh not Of sport but of
mOckery wild man, whom no extent Of culture
had been able to tame! Ills intellectual faculty
seemed to me to be weak in proportion 10 his vio-
lence OF temper; the judgment he gives about any
thing is more apt TO be wrong than nght-as the IN
ward whirlwInd show, him this side or the other of
the object and sides of an object all that he
lie original man IN most cases one bul signs
find HIM painful as "a writer; like soul ever prom
Isng To take wing INTO the Ether yet never doing IT,
ever splaslng web-fOoted III the tcrrenc mud, and
only splashng the worse the more he strives! Two
new tragedies of his that | read lately are tho
fatalest stuff that | have seen for longj not an
ingOt; ali no, Il distracted coil of wire dra wings
salabe IN no market. Poor Lander has left his
Wife lwho IN said To be "a fool IL Italy, with his
children, who would not quit her; but II seems he
has honestly surrendered ali MS money to her eX-
cept "a bare annuity for furnished lodgings; and
now lives at Bath solitary sexagenarian, III that
always il would kill him soon alas | can we'll
believe that! They say lie has n kind heart; nor
does IL seem unlikely; a perfectly honest heart
free and fearless, dwelling amid such hallucna-
tions, excltatlons' tempestuous confusIons, l can
see ne has. Enough of him Me he likes well
enough. more thanks to him but two hours of such
speech as his leave me giddy aud undone. have