Graham's Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 4, October 1841Various
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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 4, October 1841
Various
Literature -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals
Another grave was dug close by the side of the one which had just been
filled. Some of the friends of the “pale-face” objected to the burial of
an Indian so near the body of their own kindred, but the sisters wished
it, and their feelings were regarded. He was buried, after the manner of
his people—his face towards the rising sun. His hunting weapons were
buried with him. There they lay—two fierce and haughty spirits. They
would not hold fellowship in life, but in _death_ they sleep side by
side.
From that hour the hearts of the two survivors were as one. Theirs had
been a sad and mournful fate. Their destinies were similar. They
lived—lived long—and as happily as two could live whose first dream of
bliss had been thus cruelly broken. They lived to atone for the faults
of those whom they had loved. They were never separated during their
lives, and nearly at the same time the summons came to both to go and
meet their Judge. They have long since passed away. Their clay has
“returned to earth as it was, and their spirits have gone to the God who
gave them.”
Unionville, Mass.
* * * * *
SHAKSPEARE.—No. II.
BY THEODORE S. FAY, AUTHOR OF “NORMAN LESLIE,” “THE COUNTESS IDA,” ETC.
HAMLET.
None of Shakspeare’s characters are insignificant. If I had been Garrick
or Mrs. Siddons, I should have tried sometimes, as an experiment, the
most apparently trifling of his personages. I believe they would give
room for striking development, only there is this objection—neither
Siddons nor Garrick, nor any other of the great actors _could_ take
parts promiscuously from the crowd. They are too unlike each other. They
are too essentially different identities to permit of being represented
by one. Garrick might take Macbeth in the play—and _Scrub_ in the
after-piece, and do them both well; but he could not play equally well
with two such opposite characters by Shakspeare. No actor has appeared
_capable_ of playing all his principal tragic _rôles_ well. It is
sufficient honor to attain to the height of illustrating one or two.
Kean, for example, was very great in Lear and Richard. He was fine, by
starts, in Othello, but not equally so. He wanted sustained simplicity
and calm grandeur. Othello was a hero of nature: he had the quiet self
respect of a long successful soldier. Kean did not satisfy me, as a
whole, in Othello. I like Forrest, in many respects, better. I saw
Forrest play the part at Drury Lane one night far beyond what I had ever
seen before; particularly the first half of the play was perfect; the
last I thought wanted, although in a slight degree, that mellowing and
chastening which time gives to a painting, and will, doubtless, perhaps
_has_ given, to this part of that dignified and impressive portraiture.
He carried with him a crowded and intellectual audience—and, at certain
points, profound and unbreathing silence—the highest
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