Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-19
,oet spent bis DAVIS, improving bis garden

poet spent his days, improving his garden
and grounds, and writing moral and de-
scriptive poems. elegies. eclogues, epistles,
etc. Scott fondly hoped to immortalize
| his native village, on which he wrote q
poem, Amwell," l776; but of all his
works only "The Drum are remembered.
Gottfried August Burger, German
lyric poet, was born in Saxony in l74S, and
died at Gottingen in 1894. After study.
ing law and theology, and imbibing dis
gust for both, Burger began to write verse.
He learned English, and became passion
ate lover of Shakespeare Percy's REL
iques of Ancient English Poetry" which
appeared in l765, gave him bent toward
ballad poetry, and in IVA he published his
"Lenore" in the "Almanack of the
MUSES." for that year. This weird and
powerful ballad, which Burger is said to
have founded on some fragments of ghost
story, which he heard peasant girl sing.
ing by moonlight, made him famous. But
the poet was destitute of sound Judgment,
which might have turned to account his
great talents. His life was a record of
poverty and failure, of unhappy marriages
and ill-regulated passions. Besides the
ballad Of ''Lenore" (also written 'tElle-
more and "Lsnora one of Burgers best
poems is Der wilde Juger." His poems
| (only IN part translatedl form three vol
umes, and be also wrote copiously In prose
I pom esthetics. " Lenore" has been trans
lated by several hands, and Waiter Scott
| founded his tne poem William and
Helen upon it.
Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, Viscount
ST. Adams, born at York House, Strand.
| London, 221 January, 1861 died at High.
gate, 9sh April, 1926. Lawyer, statesman
and philosopher. Queen Elizabeth and
James |. were his patrons. Ben Jonson
| was one of his most faithful friends. He
| attained the highest position IS a states.
man; he has earned immortality as an
author he reaped a rich harvest of sue
cess during his life, and endured its bane
In the malice and contempt of those who
envied him, or who were honestly opposed
to him. He was accused of ingratitude to
| those who helped him to rise-notably to
/ the Earl OF Essex, the sometime favorite
of EEzAbeth-and of corruption in his Of.
fee of Lord Chancellor. From this office
he retired in disgrace, and had to pay a
! tiEe Of FAC, 600 for his misdeeds. His de.
tense mas been warmly taken up by several
modern writer's, but the poets portrait of
him as The wisest, brightest, meauest OF
mankind" still clings to his memory. The
book of " Essays or Moral Counsels" was
the first of his published works, and his
last days were occupied In revising it.
Dugald Stuart said OF this volume 1T is
one of those where the superiority of his
genius appears TO the greatest advantage,
the novelty and depth of his reflections
often receiving strong relief from the
triteness of his subject. 1t may be read
from beginning to end in few hours; and
yet, after the twentieth perusal, one seldom
fails to remark in it something overlooked
before. This indeed is characteristic OF
all Bacon 8 writings, and is only to be
accounted for by the inexhaustible aliment
they furnish to our own thoughts, and the
sympathetic activity they impart to our
torpid faculties" His chief works were
the "Novum Orgaaum intended to be
1.-THE science OF better and more perfect
use of reason in the investigation of things.
and of the true aids to the understanding -
"The History of Henry VII; +" '.The Ad-
vancement of Learning" "De Sapientia
Veterum THE Wisdom of the Ancients)
"Apothegms, etc. He was lauded as
"the glory and ornament OF his age and
nation"