The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-02-04
MISCELLANY.
PREcocIous o6LEBRI77Es.

awoke one morning, 2 at the age of "a q aud
found himself famous !, by the publication Of
/" Childe Harold The next day lie made a
speech in the House Of Lords against the bill
imposing severe penalties upon the weavers
who had broken the new weaving machinery.
One listener pronounced it the best speech
made by a lord since the Lord knows when. .
and another declared that !" some parts ;,
were very like those of Burke, At 28 Shake
speare had friends, fame, money, foes and
critics, and achieved all his success before he
was fifty.p BusSer was 25 when his early nov.
els attracted attention, and nearly all his NOV.
els appeared within the Succeeding twenty
years. Macauley, even as a boy npetticoats,
was marvel. At:4years old, when asked if
the hot tea spilled over him had stopped hurt
ling, be replied Thank you, the agony is
much abated." At 81 the appearance of his
essay on !" Milton = filed this cartl-receiver
with the cards of the most distinguished peo-
lIple ofsLondoh. Burns, between 10 and 49,;
wrote his early poems, s.Joln Barleyoorn y
among them at 81 "Cotter's Saturday
| Night" and was famous before he was 3d.
Before Goethe was loyears old he wrote sew
eral languages, invented stories and mediate
ed poems, and had some knowledge OF art. =
At % he made a great sensation with the
Sorrows of Wertler, but was 81 before his
browning work Of z Faust 7 appeared. Bry-
ant wrote two poems when he was ID and his
celebrated Thanaptopsis when he was 10.
Irwin became, known for his :" Knickerbock-
er's New York at &c. at 81 for Rip Van
| Wrinkle - and kindred sketches. Dickens was
% when his first success, Pickwck,n APP
peared Thaokeray 50 when !" Vanity Fair
the first and Creates of his works was horn !;
but Trollops wasr45 before heachieved fame.
Bunyan wrote Pilgrims Progress at 40
Fielding was AZ when /" Tom Jones intro.
duced him j; and DeFoe was IS before he
found time or occasion to rescue "Robinson
| Crusoe " from his shipwreck.
OF the four eminent famale writers of fic-
ton, Charlotte Bronte was Al when she wrote
Jane Eyre" George Eliot was 30 when
adam Bede appeared, Mrs. Stowe 8s when
she gave " Uncle Toms Cabin . to the world
But George Sand only 2s, when g Indisns y
made her famous. She began early and left
off late, producing sixty stories aud twenty
plays.
The great philosophers and Inventors are
also on hand early with their claims for im%
mortality. Lord Bacon from the first gave
signs Of hissgreat fertility of talent. Queen
Elizabeth asked him how old he was, and no
lisped, Two years Younger than your Ma
jesty,s happy reign" In his 18th year he
specialized on tho laws Of tue imaginaton.---
He was member of Parliament at 35, and
Ben Johnson says of his speaking, that 81 the
fear of every mau who heard him was lest he
should make an end.@ He accomplished his
great work before he was so, and died at IS
| in the arms Of Julius Caesar, an English law
yer and great friend of the philosopher. In
his Goth year Aristotle became know as the
intellect of Plato's school," aud was SO ia
nous at 40 thst'he was made tttor of Alex
ander the Great. Sir Isaac Newton, instead
of playing with his school fellows, made me-
chanical contrivances, among which was d
clock. He. invented the binoninal tbeorem
at %, refecting telescope4at' 26, aud AZ SO
discovered the iaw, of gravitation,
Benjamin Franklin had read metaphysics
and studied navigation by the time he wass16 ;
at 26 he began the publicatien of I Poor
Richards Almanac at 46-made his famous
experiments with electricity.
Fulton conceived the idea of the steamboat
at 2s, and al 81 inverted the submarine tor
pedo. Stephepsop made his first locomotive
at the age of N33s; Aslkwrgh Invented the