Smyrna times., 1876-05-03

lives. The loon retires 10 solitary ponds TO
spend it. Thus also the snake casts its
slough, and the caterpillar its wormy coat,
by an internal industry and expansion for
clothes are but our outmost cuticle and
mortal coil. 1t is desirable that
a man be clad so simply that he can lay his
hands on himself in the dark, and that he
live in all respects so compactly and pre-
paredly, that if an enemy take the town,
he can, like the old philosopher, walk out
the gate empty handed without anxiety"
"You see in my chamber" said Goethe,
near the close of his life, "no sofa; sit
always in my old wooden chair, and never
till a few weeks ago, have permitted even a
leaning-place for my head to be added. If
surrounded by tasteful furniture, my
thoughts are arrested and l am placed in
an agreeable, but passive state. Unless we
are accustomed to them from early youth,
splendid chambers and elegant furniture
had best be left to people who neither have
nor can have any thoughts
| Rogers, the banker poet, once said to
Wordsworth, "If you would let me edit
your poems, and give me leave to omit
some half dozen, and make few trihing
alterations, l would engage that you should
be as popular a poet as any livirg."
Wordsworth's answer is said to have been,
81 am much obliged to you, Mr.. Rogers,
l am poor man, but | would rather re-
main as | am
Thomson solicited Burns to supply him
with twenty or thirty songs for the musical
work in which he was engaged, with an
understanding distinctly specified, that the
bard should receive a regular pecuniary re-
, muneration for his contributions With
the first part of the proposal Burns instantly
complied, but peremptorily rejected the
> last. GAS to any remuneration, you may
, think my songs either above or below price
for they shall absolutely be the one or the
e other. In the honest enthusiasm with
/ which | embark in your undertaking, to
+ talk of money, wages, fee, hire, ETC., would
be downright prostitution of SOUL" Thorn
Q son, some time after, Notwithstanding the
r prohibition, ventured to acknowledge his
e services by a small pecuniary present
$ which the poet with some difficulty re
n strained himself from returning. ~ assure
h you, my dear sir,' he wrote to Thomson
q "that you truly hurt me with your pecu
s MARY parcel. 1t degrades me in my OWL
Il eyes. However, to ruturn it would savol
n of affectation; but as to any more traffic
4 of that debtor and creditor kind, / swea
- II
> statue of Robert Burns integrity-on tn,
e least motion of it, l will Indignantly spur
q. the by-past transaction, and from tina
,r moment commence entire stranger to you
Is Burns character for generosity of senti
,r ment and independence of mind will,
L trust long outliye any OF his wants whic
70 the cold unfeeling ore can supply; a
II. least, will take care that such a characte
he shall deserve" His sensitive nature il
as clined him to reject the present, as prou
III old Sam johnson threw away with indigni
n. ton the new shoes which had been place
al at his chamber door. e. ought not" say
IN Emerson, ito allow any man, because b
70 has broad lands, to feel thathe is rich
N. my presence. l ought to make him fe'
nj that can do without his riches, that cal
or not be bought-neither by comfort, neitht
N. by pride--and though l be utterly penn
rv less and receiving bread from him, that
tly is the poor man beside me-"
20. Foote'S mother had been heiress to
ed. large fortune spent IL an Aiu"@S at lehg
:. imprisoned for debt. In this condition 81
~, wrote to Sam, who had been allowing h
80 a hundred year out of the proceeds of
n acting. "Dear Sam, | am in prison {
'od debt; come and assist your loving mothC
~ f. Foote." To which her son characters
-, cally replied, "Dear Mother, so am
80; which prevents his duty being paid to
q loving mother by her affectionate son, Sa
d. Foote."
mt Isaac Disraeli, when a young man, "
uits informed that place in the establishme
the of great merchant was prepared for hil
ora he replied that he had written and intend
een to publish poem of considerable leng
against commerce, which was the corrup
slss of man; and he had at once inclosed
N poem to DIR. johnson, who, however, '
ant in his last illness and was unable to read
be Coleridge, on being offered half share
nav the Morning Post and Courier, with prosp
ele. of $4,000 year, announced that he wo
not give up country life, and the lazy re
art ing of old folios, for two thousand til
rba. that income. ain Short" he added, !"
e to yond 1850 year, regard money as
and evil" Professor Agassiz, when once
Of yited TO lecture in Portland, Me-, rep
yods TO the munifcent lecture association
arse he was very sorry, but he was just Il
nv busy with some researches that left him
10Y time to make money.
nay Sir John Hawkins one day met Oh
shop Goldsmith his lordship told him he
my read his poem, "The Traveller" and
ould much delighted with it: and that he
pbin going as Lord Lieutenant to Ireland,
o be that hearing that he was native Of
= country, he should be glad to do him