The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-09-24
MARRIED MEN OF LETTERS.
Loves Of Some Great Authors Poets. As
tronomers, Preachers, Travellers, Etc.

Loves OF Some Great Authors Poets. As
tronomers, Preachers, Travellers Etc.
Some of the names in our list OF men
OF letters who married are not those OF
authors who expended or depend-for
some of them are still iving-On their
writings for subsistence, but n"arly ali
depend on their writings for their repu-
tation.
A. all of these men were husbands
and most Of them fathers, such list
NAV serve to show that husbands and
fathers need not despair OF achieving
regulations as author, though, in lit
erliure, a. in other pursuits, man gen
eralIy secures some measure OF success
befOr ne marries.
This, howe er is far from being al
way the case. St. Augustine was
father if not a husband, before he was
q iUJ or author.
The married poets it will be noticed,
are umcr0 3. Few OF tie be are
missing This is exactly as might Le
expected. The genuine poet il above ali
things Il lover.
II some eminent poets are missing
fro4 our lii, which, by the way, does
No., IT end To Ue exhaustive 1t would
be rash to accuse them OF insensi ibility
TO the destinations OF the fair for by
the missing name there usually hangs a
sad tale OF ofdisappointed love
Camoen-, for example, Wa twice ban
isned because Of hi passion for one of
the Queens ladies'" at the Court of
Lisbon, and, although his love was re-
turned, the fates were so unkind that
che died before he could claim her.
{ The number Of travellers, or rather
authors Of books of travel is compara-
lively small, and this, again, is exactly
as might have been expected. 1t is not
the husband and the father who affects
the Satanic habit Of walking up and
down and going to and fro upon the
earth.
1t would take volume to notice all
the interesting facts about authors and
their wives. Here are fow:
OF Tycho Brahe we read that, "being
a great admirer OF the fair sex he con
ceived violent inclination Tor Christina,
beautiful country girl, the daughter Of
a neighborlug peasant, and allcnated his
family till the King commanded them
to be recouciled to him. Tycho, who
chose ner because she might be more
grateful and subservient than a lady OF
higher birth, never seems to have re-
pented, Dut ever found his Christina
an agreeable companion and an obedient
wife
hepler. on the other hand, found that,
" the married state at first created him
great uueasiness from a dispute which
arose about hiH wifes fortune
John Knox in spite of his Blast OF
the Trumpet Against the Monstrous
Regiment of Women married two oi
them, and ha children by both.
Sir John Vaudeville q religiously de.
clined an honorable alliance TO the
Sultan of Egypt, whose daughter he
might have espoused il he would have
abjured Christianity"
Burton, as far as we have been ablc
to learn, was never married. This
il. We a,naCtan Tho 4 Artg
tony OF Melancholy " is not the kind ot
book that any yoody but a lonely bache
lor would think of writing.
Young author of " Night Thoughts,
married lady with money, and so die
DR.. Johnson.
Cruden, the author of tn Concord
an1e. tried to do the same, I'D al
dresscJ numerous pamph cts TO the
object ol his choice, but She remained
$50. rate u spite OF these and other eS
truordinary means OF wooing. Pal
Mall Gazette.