Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-01-24
FAMOUS BACHELORS.
Men OF Note who Led Lonely Lives Of
Single Blessedness.


Mon OF Note Who Led Lonely Lives Of
Single Blessedness.
Pope, Pollock. Herrick, Goldsmith.
Macaulay, Watts, Hans Anderson
Vostaire, Swinburne. Newton, and a
host Of others were bachelors. Pope.
who was known as the interrogation
point Of literature, hated women. DR..
Watts was said to have written one OF
his sweetest hymns after being refused
by woman. James Buchanan, the
bachelor President, was something OF
an author, and used to publish his love
verses in the papers.
In art the bachelors were also nu-
merous. Raphael, Angelo, Landseer,
Joshua Reynolds and Beethoven were
never married. Congreve, the dra-
matist, was a speciman OF the bachelor
lady-killer, and Swift, bitter and ma
licious as he was, was really of the
same order. Cowper was of a tender,
as the petals of dainty flower. AT
twenty-eight he met with love mis-
fortune, and the wound never healed.
Keats, also tender and modest, had
been affected by Cupid's darts, and
never recovered. Pope had the iron
driven into his soul by his deformity,
which made him all the more bitter.
DR.. Luxembourg and Adam Smith
had curious stories about their love
affairs, and even Hans Anderson, as
gentle and lovable as was his nature,
had his trials, and told his story in his
own simple and childish way. Turner,
the artist, had his life shaped and
sharpened by his love shadow, and he
became reserved and dropped into the
hard line of money making. Some
thing serious pervaded his writings
and paintings.
Lamb was defined as the self-deny-
ing bachelor, because he gave up
marriage on account OF his sister.
Gray and Erasmus were old-maidish
bachelors. Goldsmith was a blunder-
ing bachelor, and his life might have
been changed, good-natured and Iowa
BILE as he was. The ideal bachelor is
Whittier, who is every lady's friend,
gentle, good and kind. Next come the
CLANS, of whom Hume is a distin-
guished example. Incased in his she'll,
he was regular bivalve, SOOTHING at
every thing and even defending sui
eide. Nowhere in his correspondence
could be discovered an evidence of
warmth and sentiment.
The corpulent bachelor authors
make long list. Hume was the
fattest of the fat. Not appreciated at
home, he was intoxicated with the
praises of Paris, and made failure in
the salons as a society man. Gibbons
corpulency was even ridiculous, and he
went through several courtships, but
forgot that his fat kept pace with his
fame. After reading several chapters
of the "Rise and Fall of the Roman
Empire" to Lady Elizabeth Foster, he
got on his knees to make his proposal
sShe refused, and Gibbons could not re-
gain his feet until helped by two stout
peasants.
Buckle, Boyle and Spencer were
never married, and the fact may have
been that many of them never had
time. Humboldt was general favor
lite in society, and was courted and
feted; he was witty and sharp at
repartee. Though his name is asso-
ciated with lonely rivers, unpeopled
wastes, mountain peaks and travels
he was never known as husband.
Buckle was always an invalid and de-
voted to his mother. Erasmus was a
very facetious man and the best critic
of his age. Horace Walpole. who for
sixty years satirized merry women
and things, loved to write letters. In
his old age he became infatuated with
Miss Berry, but feared that the world
he had SO long ridiculed would laugh
him down. Pope delighted to write
letters, and would send a half dozen
copies to his lady friends. Though
many detested this "wasp," he was
devoted to his mother, and he was
self-sacriicing. Macaulay was never
married, but his noble nature shone
out in his letters to his sisters. When
one of them got married he said he
had nothing left but his ambition.