Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-11-15
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Byron was an exceedingly rapid write'
and composer. He produced the whole o.
the "Bride of Abydos" in a single night
and it is said without even mending his pen,
The pen is now preserved in the British
Museum.
Pope never could compose we'll without
first declaimiug for some time at the top Of
his voice, and thus rousing his nervous sys'
tenn to the fullest activity. He says, "the
things I have written the quickest have al
ways pleased me best"
A friend once said to Moore, the poet,
that his verses must slip off his tongue as il
by magic. "Why, sir" replied Moore,
"that line cost me hours, days and weeks
of a~ttritiou before it would come"
1t cost Lord Lyttletou twenty years to
write the "Life and History of Henry III )"
Gibbon was twelve years in completing his
"Decliue and Fall of the Roman Empire y
and Adam Smith, occupied ten years in
producing his "Wealth of Nations"
Calvin studied in his bed. Every morn.
ling, at FIVE or six o'clock, he had book,
manuscript and paper brought to him there,
and he worked on for four hours together.
If he had occasion to 60 out, on his return
he undressed and went to bed again, there
to resume his studies.
Bacon could only compose in a small
study he fancied that a contracted room
helped him to condense his thoughts, and
always invested the ceremony of writing
with solemnity. He knelt down before
composing his great works, and prayed for
light from Heaven.
Balzac, the finest writer in French prose
who gives vast majesty and harmony to his
periods, has been known to bestow a week
upon a single page of composition, and was
never satisfied with the first production of
his thoughts.
Martin Luther's literary labors were e.
normous. During an interval of less than
thirty years, he published seven hundred
and fifty volumes; some were pamphlets,
but the most were large and elaborate trea.
@tises. He was very fond of his dog which
was ever by his side.
"The Comforts of Human Life" by R.
Heron, was written in q prison under the
most distressing circumstances "The
Miseries of Human Life" by Beresford,
we're on the contrary, composed in a draw
ing room, where the author was surrounded
by every luxury.
Steele wrote excelleutly on temperance
when he was sober. Sallust, who declaim.
ed SO eloquently against the RIGHTEOUSNESS of
the age, was himself an habitual debauchee.
Johnsou's essay on politeuess is admirable,
but he himself was a perfect boor. Young's
gloomy verses give one the blues, but be
was a brisk, lively man.
We find the depressed and melancholy
Cowper, who passed so many days of re.
ligious dependency and doubt, devoting
the hours of night to the production of the
mirth- provoking story of "Jobn Gilpin."
All the friends of Sterne knew him to be
a most selfish man, yet, as a writer, be ex.
celled in pathos and charity. At one time
beating his wife, at another he wasted his
sympa,hies over a dead donkey. So Seue-
ca wrote in praise OF poverty, on a table
of solid gold. with millions let out at usury.
1t is a remarkable fact that the mass Of
poetry which gave Burns his principal fame
burst from him in a very short space OF
time, not exceeding fifteen months. 1t was
"a sudden, impetuous flow, which seemed
soon to exhaust itself.
The IDEA oE THE SPINNING JENNY.
Suddenly he (James Hargreaves) drop.
ped upon his knees, and rolled on the stone
floor at full length. He lay with his face
towards the floor, and made line and cir
Giles with the end of burnt stick. He
rose and went to the fire to burn his stick.
He took hold of his bristly hair with one
hand. and rubbed his forehead and nose
with the other and the blackened stick
Then he sat upon a chair, and placed his
head between his hands, his elbows on his
knees, and gazed intently on the floor, then
he spraug to his feet, and replied to some
feeble question of his wife (who had not
risen since the day she gave birth to a it,
tie strauger), bya loud assurance that he
had it; and taking her 10 his sturdy arms,
In the blanket, the baby in her arms, he
lifted her out, and held her over the black
drawings on the floor. These he explain.
ed, and she joined a small, hopeful, happy
laugh with his heightened assurance, that
she should never again toll at the spinning
wheel-that he would never again ''play,'
and have his loom standing for van of welt
, She asked some questions, which he ans
wered, after seating he. in the arm chair,
by laying her spinning wheel on its back
the horizontal spindle standing vertically,
while he made the wheel r%evolve, and drew
a rowing of cotton from the spindle into an
at,enuated thread. "Our fortune is made
when that is made" he said, speaking Of
his drawings on the floor. "What viii
5 you call it?" asked his wife. 'sCall it
What and we call it after thysel' Jenny
They called thee SPINNING Jenny afore
had thee, because thou beat every lass il
Stanehill Moor at the wheel. What if We
call it ''Spiuning Jenny?"-Men Wt
Have Risen.
THE "NEw" PHILOSOPHY OF BIRD Ia
M1NG.-1t is by no means generally known:
yet there can exist no reason why it should
not be generally known, that every human
being is a magnet-powerful as any stee'