54 THE AUTHOR OF " DARTMOOR." 



through every opposition, and instantly effects his 

 rescue. " His sword/' says Vinesalf, " seemed to 

 flash everywhere at once ; no enemy required a second 

 blow. With the violence of his grasp, the skin of his 

 right hand burst and clave to the hilt !" 



To be concluded in our next number. 



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THE AUTHOR OF "DARTMOOR." 



" He asked for bread — and he received a stone I '* 



A STONE? No — not even the simplest tablet to 

 inform the stranger that the author of "Dartmoor" 

 was a Plymouth man.* He who existed through 

 poverty is unrecorded dead ; unhonoured by any such 

 monumental tribute as an appreciating public is wont 

 to consecrate to the memory of departed genius, and 

 such as has been accorded to many an individual less 

 worthy of being enshrined than Carrington. But the 

 poet is not all dead ; the memory of his aspirations re- 

 mains treasured in the hearts of those that love the 

 numbers of a writer who can draw his inspiration from 

 the fresh and salubrious sources of natural beauty — 

 who can influence the affections of humanity without 

 pandering to any degrading passions — who can elevate 

 the ideas at the same time that he gratifies the feel- 

 ings — who can fascinate the imagination while he 

 dispenses with meretricious ornament or tinsel finery, 

 and who can prove himself a good poet without com- 

 promising his claim to the title of a good man. 



A few individualsf of Plymouth, Devonport and the 

 neighbourhood of those towns, estimated, patronized 



* Carrington was born in Old-town Street, Plymouth ; he died 

 lit Bath, September 2, 1830, at the residence of his son, two months 

 after he had removed thither from his native town. 



t Among whom may be mentioned George Harvey, Esq. and 

 George Wightwick, Esq. ; the former of whom exerted himself ac- 

 tively in procuring subscribers to Carrington's last poem, " My 

 Native Village ;" while the latter appealed to the public in behalf of 

 the " Living Poet," through the medium of the Philo-danmonian, &c. 



