Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-07-20
o,sr,re,nsusp BACHELORS.
Men Of mote Who Led konsly Lives Oh
glnsle Blsssedness.

Men N Mote Who Led konsly Lives OF
s 8nsle Blssssdncss. n
Pooe Pollock, Herrick, Goldsmith. Ma
caulay. Watts, Hans, Anderson, foitaire.
Swin6urne. Newton, and host OF Others
were bachelors Pope, who was known as
the Interrogation point Of literature. hated
women. DIR. Watts was said 10 have writ
ten one of his sweetest hymns after being
refused BY woman. James bacnshsn;
the bachelor president was something OF
an author, and used to publish his love
verses in the papers.
: In art the bachelors were also numerOnS'
Raphael, Angelo. LaRdseer, Joshua key-
nolds. and Beethoven were never married,
Congreye the dramatist was Specimen OF
the bachelor lady-killer. and Swift, bitter
and MALICIOUS as he WAS, was really oil the
same order. Cowper was of tender, SEN
sitive nature. and WAS as shrinking rs the
metals of dainty flower. At % he met
with love misfortune, and the woun1
never healed. Keats, also tender and
modest had been affected By Cupid darts,
and never recovered. Pope had the iron
driven into bis soul By his deiorLnity, which
made him all the more bitter.
DR.. ThuIepbourg and Adam Smith haG
curious stories about their love affairs, and
even Hans Anderson, as gentle and iov.
able as was his nature, had his trials. aud
told, bis story in his owR simple and child
ike wsy. Turner, the artist had his life
shaDed and sharpened By his love shadow,
and be became reserved. and dropped into
the hard line of money-making. Some
thing serious pervaded his writings and
paintings.
Lamb was defined a. the seii-denvIng
bachelor because he gave up marriage on
account Of his sister. GRAY and Erasmus
were old-maidish bachelors. Goldsmith was
laundering bachelor, and his life might
have been changed, gOOd-natured and low
able as he was. The ideal bachelor Is
Whittier. who is every lady friend, gentel.
good. and kind. Next come the CLAIMS, OF
| whom Hume is u distinguished example.
! Incased in his shell. he was regular bl
valve. scOing at everything, and even de-
Tending suicide Nowhere in his cores
! pondence could he discovered an evidence
/ of warmth and sentiment.
T The corpulent bachelor authors make
long list. Hume vas the latest OF the fat
. Not appreciated at home. he was intoNl-
Gated with the praises Of Paris, and made a
/ failure in the salons as a society man. ED,
( BON cOrpulency was even ridiculous ana
| he went through several courtships, but for
got that his face kept pace with his fame.
After reading several chapters Of the "R'Sc
and FALL of Roman Empire TO Lady Eliza
beth Foster, he got on his knees to make
his proposal She refused. and Gibbon
could not regain his feet until hclp~t By
two strong peasants.
Buckle, Boyle. and Spencer we're never
married. and the fact mas have been that
many them never had time. HNmhoIdl
was general tavoritc in society, aud was
court,i and Cctcd; he was witty aud sharp
At rcm.rlce. Though his name IS aSaocIat,
I'd with lonely rivers, rmplnpicd wastes,
mountain peaks, aud travels, he VAS never
known as Il husband Burkl" was always
an invalid. aud devoted to hts mother.
ErasmaS was very faction, man. aut rho
best critic of his age. Horace Wa!posc
who Eor sixty ears Satiri>ci men, women
ami things, loved to write letters. In his
old AZ" he became infatuated with Miss
Berrt but feared that the world he had
50 'ong rdiculed would laugh him down.
Porc delighted TO write letters, aud would
send half dozen copies TO his lady friends.
Though many detested this wasp" he was
devoted to his mother aud was self.saCri,
icing Macauev was never married, but
his noble nature shone out in his letters to
his sisters. When one of them got mar
ricd he said he had nothing left but his am
! bii:on