The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-04-10
,.<rIcvLr AUTHORSHIP.

- $500 ynAe 1
S.;rr;ch Heine. the sweetest singer
$ c. -. has ever produced, wrote his
s..-.rcero'' under circumstances Of
-. - .unering. Whsn paralysed and
ssrly blind, he wrote . woven web Of
-. and pathos, in which he spared
- not even his own racked and
.s-.;eSed frame. my body" he
"a. ~ gone to rack and ruin. so
:. {. .jnost nothing il left but my
-. and my bed reminds me Of the
s.dious grave Of the enchanter Mer-
-h;ch is in the forest of Broce-
Hs..5e il Brittany, beneath lofty oaks,
.tcee tropical branches blaze up like
- dame to the sky. All. colleague
I'm. l envy you those trees and
- fresh waving boughs, for no green
] - rustles here in my mattress grave
sgrsye without rest, death without
AxSffyileges of the dead, who have no
zss.d ID write either letters or books.
EfIsye been measured for my coffin
Aseme time aGo, and my obitnory writ
-. but die so slowly that this be-
4 somes tedious affair fof myself -
IN IS for my friends. s (niu6ce. how
8 sser:x&heres IS. an end % everything.
as hSrning you win md the book
joeed where the puppotrshow Of ny
amer so often amused you.n One
I iehk indeed. It was $50 but not. until
- h6a endured his amattress grave
Il cirht long, weary years. One night
e moved into that last and best bed :
vhelp 1.-THE weary are ct rest
Il his been commended that when tne
6beasa of which the sufferer IS dying
! consumpt;0n, or some disease which,
ktween p2foxysms of pain, leayes
aces Of ease and rest, it Is nothing
1ouderful that good work should be,
1une. Some of the best of Paley's
vorks were written under such condi-
fpns, andsome of the best of Shelleyk1
ft.f6 Robinson sid that Goethe never
- N affection which he did not turn
- apoems NJ. RhliA Gilbert Hamr
non ~ noted : veH pee6lias efe&
nAicl5 6ne10t u con1p0siti6d hsd upon
Wordsworth. When engaged in COM
rorinr 1.-THE White Doesof Rylstone,"
recsiyed wound in his foot, and
slserYed that. the continuation. of bis
lleisff 3dboS1 inereooed - hritetion
ws1nds WAeleas b ksu pAd1gI
r Ef n &puU xmini1A III A<o-
He Eel pfodnced perfect cure. In
&nnection with this incident he re-
nnrked that poetic excitement, accome,
ed By protracted labor IN compost.
-, alwSyx BROUGHT on more or less
lily derangemept He. preserved
nssH from permanently injurious
1sequences By excellent habit of life.
B s cqriQps thak 6moss-of illness,
ia tho eyes swim and thes head
1kes, are oftentimes rich in sugges-
- II the mind is naturally poetic,
Inn ef illness are by no means
$50. Such was the condition of
Green, the historian. who literally
= harness. Few pages in literary
10y ne 30 touching as the preface
W Nr. Green tells The history Of
60Gdng Of ssThe Conquest of En-
-, When he had finished the
h.selnme of his History Of the
~ People" there was pause in
RI 1Qv4hco 81 the lung disease which
lcted him. Eager for fresh
<DtkNaha abegan to shape new
6ns, but early in the spring of
u ~ fell i'll again. I'm the extremity
Edn and defeat he found higher
6lity and . perfect Strength. Most
- Givdup their work when their end
nes near, but Mr.. Green Is said to
~ worked an the harder because his
III were Numbered. and strove to
intain and diffuse - much light as
bile before the coming OF the night.
11er the shadow Of death the Con-
t Of Ehgland' was begun. and the
~ cau6e before Il Was finished. The
IL Of Mark Pattison was equally
for ii one Of his last letters he
-: It Is hard to feel my physical
4os ebbing away, while my intel
I'll powersrr6eo 6eSur more vigor-
] have se1e1l With infinite
- u l11sfials ior my great work.
~ NIn ~ u wsste1, for I shall
II z faish IS and no ons else
lneop would seem anfssupesebls
70 writing, yet PrcsoOtt t&e
Mfki6p lnd Peru over
- : III atty Into which hss5xas
IT ~ the failure Of hiSseighk.
skdhf1n larSaE Q69lseeI
tndenb threw crdSe
~ La, aWhi66 struck eel
ard deprived it almosf Hkoi
~ whIIe the other Wa IT. (
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