The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-30

ia nous Utterances OF Dying Poets
Painters and Philosophers.

which flow and the honors that are
paid when the friends of the republic
die give hope that the republic
itself may be Immortal"
| As the country Ia at present pass
ing through similar experience ia
that which called forth the common
ldation of the nations sorrow from
the lips of the greatest orator which
this nation has as yet produced, II Is
both fitting and profitable that we
should take look at the dying
words of some OF the great men aud
women OF the past, aud see If we can
not trace in these short epigammatic
utterances q likeness to the character
of the eventful life Of the individual
The cowardly brute who killed his
wife with kick aud tiddled while
Rome burned, being too chicken
hearted 10 use his own sword, cntreats
one OF his freedmen, in whose house
he has taken refuge, to dispatch him,
but being refused, is compelled to fall
ON his own sword, and eNclaims,
while dying. with an amusing effort
at dignity: as this your iidclityT
Cardinal Beaufort, the richest man
In England of his day, who, by a
/ loan of e2S,OO0 out of his private
purse to Henry ", saved the clergy
from fresh levy for the benefit OF
the royal exchequer. was an intrig-
uing politician-the lobbyist par cx-
ccllencc OF his time, his dying words
being very suggestive of his charac-
ter: "Wha,l IL there no bribing
DEATH" Chesterfield, who Samuel
johnson called IA wit amoug lords
and.a lord among wits"-the intimate
of Pope, Swift and Bolingbroke-cl-
egaut in conversation, with grace and
polish of manners, who Is best known
to modern readers by his "letters to
his son." "Philip Dormcr," written
as a guide for his department. What
more appropriate dying speech
for such man: "Giyc Dayrolcs a
chairl'
The pruiligatc Charles IL of Eng
land, who disgraced his country aud
cmptied its treasury, with ray of
Observation-Disclosures which does honor
to the royal rouc, lisps finally: Let
not poor Nellie starve,"
Queen Elizabeth, that cruel, red
haired old spinster, who sacrificed the
noble Essex to her perverted caprice,
aud gloatcd at the overthrow of her
beautiful rival, Mary Stuart, rs she
wrlthcd ON her bed of torment, and
in anticipation of greater agonics
across the river" shrieked: "All
ny possessions for a moment OF time. y
IL recalls the death vel of the huncll-
backed scouudrcl. Richard lll.-"My
kinkdom for horse" What more
characteristic than the fiery, erratic
Marabeau-licentiou in early life, bu,
successful, brilliant and eloquent as a
political leader in after years termi.
mating his career with an ath istic
voluptuous flourish. exclaiming:
.I.ct me die TO the sound of delicious
music.r
Raleigh is described Ms man OF
noble presence, OF versatile aud com
manding genius. Ia the art and
iinesse of the courticr, the political
wisdom of the statesman, and the
skillful daring of the warrior, he was
almost alike prc-emiucnt. The moral
elevation of the man shonc out in the
darkness which bcset his later for
tunes; the calm aud manly dignity
with which he confronted adverse fate
conciliatcd even those whom his
haughtIness in prosperity had offend
ed. This is the nlau who could re-
mark. ~ he extended his head on the
block: at matters not how the head
lieth."
We'll might Walter Scott exclaim,
us he died at his beautiful Abbots-
| ford, in the bosom of his family, with
the murmur of the much loved Tweed
in his cars, after years of intense but
successful struggles with fortune: II
! feel as IL | was myself again.
Byron was II man Of very active,
nervous temperament from child
hood. The vicissitudes of his social
existence draw forth wOnderment
aud pity. The resources and fertility
OF his intellect were amazing. lie
gained his first reputation as de-
pictor of the gloomy and stormful
passions. After he wrote "Beppo,
lie was surprised to find that he was
a humorist. When he reached Greece
he discovered an ability Tor military
organization When all the scboo
some idol wearing u scowling brow
and cnrled lip, he was laughing IL
Italy, and declaring himself to be tn,
most romantic being in the world
: How touching Is his dying exclana
ton: | must Sleep
Franklin, who deemed nothing
2 which concerned the interest of hap
pincss of mankind unworthy of III
: attention, and rarely ever bcvtow
his attention ON any subject withou
: obtaining permanently useful result
o of whom Sir Humphrey Dary ha
n said: "A singular felicity OF Undue
Q ton followed all his researches, an
II by very small means he establishe
II very great truths. lie has write
v equally well for the animated and IL
Il philosopher" II is scrupulous an
II rigid veracity of character wine
i breathcs In his final statement; :"
!. dying man does nothing well. WIN