The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-08-10

IL ID M 6OmlICtU I8CI LllAt genius &uU
beauty are rarely found in the same
person. The handsomest man Of Lon
don society in the opening Of the pres
ent century was Count Dorsey, but he
was in every other point very inferior.
The chief soldier Of the age (Wellington)
was deformed by his prodigious Roman
nose. Southey was always distinguished
for the same feature, which, indeed, was
Of the most unparalleled extent. Pope
was partially deformed. and Of course,
was ready object for caricaturist.
Hence he speaks of the s'libelled person
and distorted shape" Another refer
ence to his personal defects is rs follows:
..T'hcre are who TO my person pay their court,
l cough like Horace. and though lean. am short:
Ammos' great one shoulder had tOo high,
Such Ovid. nose-and. sir. .on have an eye.
60 on. Obiging crcatnrc-bld me sex
All that dissraccd my hct,,rs met in me-
Byron had handsome face, but his
club-foot was crushing blow to his
pride, and the self-consclousness Of such
q defect seemed never to abate. This is
illustrated by the following incident:
One night, as Byron and some friends
left the theatre, one of the .'link.boys"
volunteered to illuminate the way, ex-
pecting the usual fee.
"This way, my lord" exclaimed the
light-bearer, uttering the title at ran
dom.
How does ho know you are . lord?'
asked one Of his friends.
"Know met exclaimed the poet,
"why, they all know mel am de-
formed"
Walter Scott was q man Of fine per-
sonal appearance, but he, too, was lame
having been injuredin childhood-and
walked with . peculiar limp. When
Lady Blessington first met him she ex-
claimed:
"Why, sir, have you got hurt?"
Eyes" was the reply; ''about ffty
years ago."
Campbell, the author Of pleasures
Of Hope" though small man. was con-
sidered handsome, but his life was .
failure, and it, miseries afford : painful
contrast with personal beauty. It is
probable, however, that Burns was the
nearest approach to manly beauty that
authorship ever produced. Walter
Scott, who met Hmm once, and once only
said that This eyes literally elowed," !"
and added that, having seen most Of the
distinguished men Of that age, mono Of
them had such eyes - Burns.
Oscar VIII dc's Story Of Rosetti's Wife
Rosetti's wife-a beautiful woman,
with wonderful glory Of red gold hair,
had entered his life to mold and color il
with her love and to shape al his work.
One day, in the act Of raising . Venetian
glass filled with wine to her lips, she
died. No one knew why. With her life
passed away all his interest and his
hopes. and the sonnets which he felt to
be her work as much as his, he put into
leaden casket and had them buried
with her in her coffin. Some years
after his friends begged that he would
restore to the world the poems, and, at
last, they prevailed upon him to allow
them to be taken from the grave. To dc
this, they applied to Mr.. Bruce "a
secretary and the authority, / suppose,
who, Mr.. Wilde humorously said, could
understand thing that was An expor,
or an import, or that had = name on tht
stock exchange, but to whom the WORD
poet conveyed nothing, and who wa,
lost in amused astonishment that any
one could think that q poets work.
could confer honor upon England How
ever, in the end permission was given
the grave was opened, the coffin liz
raised, and behold, the beautiful rex
lair had grown to great length, ant
wound about her grave-robe; the leader
casket had broken by weight Of tn
earth upon it, and the wonderful hal
had grown in and around the sonneta
aud made . lace-liks mesh on ever,
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