The Dickinson press., 1892-04-30

Their Writing Has Been Decided
Ivy Happier than Their We'd
lock.
The great Dante was married to a
notorious scold, and when he was III
exile he had no desire TO see her. al.
though she was the mother OF his sin
children.
Shakespeare lost tine sympathies o
the world by marrying Anne Hatl,a
way, Il woman eight years lis senior
who was coarse and ignorant.
1t is told of Lord Bacon that he Ell
ioyed bnt little domestic bliss, ant
''loved not to be with his partner"
Milton was not great in the char
acter OF husband and father. w
read OF him that his first wife wa!
disguised with his gloomy house, ant
soo run away from him. and hi:
daughters were left to grow up utterly
neglected.
Oh the great artist. Domenichino, il
is told that he married Il lady OF higl
birth and great beauty. who was such
nyiragoth that it is believed hcpoisonei
him.
Montaigne, when a widower, said hi
would not marry again, "though il
We're TO wisdom itself"
Mollere was married to a wife who
made him miserable, and Rousseau
lived a most wretched life with his
wife, who was low and illiterate.
Dryden married discord in u noble
WIFE," and Addison sold himself to &
cross-graincd old countess, who made
him pay dearly for all she gave him.
Steel, Sterne, Churchill, Coleridge
Byron, and Shelley We're all married
unhappily. and Bulwer and Dickens
have been known by all the world as
Indifferent husbands.
The younger Pliny thus speaks OF
his wife, Calphurnia: 'IIer affection
Tor me has given her u turn for books;
her passion will increase with oul
days, for it is not my youth nor my
person that she loves, but my reputa.
ton and my glory OF which she is ena.
mored."
Sir Walter Raleighmarried q beauti-
full girl, IS years his Junior, and she
adored him with increasing ardor to
the very last.
DR.. Johnson's wife was old enough
to be his mother, but che continued
to be under the illusions OF the we'd
ding day until she died at the age OF
81" he being only 43.
Button told his friend that his wife
had q great influence over his COM
position. 81 am always refreshed and
aided by her advice"
Sir Walter Scott was a genius OF the
very first order. He succeededin every
department OF letters, but his greatest
happiness was in his wife. He mar
ried her after q short acquaintance,
nnd it was a genuine love match,
lasting until the day of her death.
Moore's wife was one of the noblest
creatures, and he never tired of sing
ing her praises.
She!ley's first marriage was unfort-
innate, but his second was q model OF
happiness.
Wordsworth made alovematch, and
was a lover through life.
The wife OF Christopher North had
more influence over him than any
other person in the world, and her
death was his greatest of misfort,
uneS.
Lamartine, the great French poet,
was happily married and received
great aid from his wife in all his un.
dertakings.
1t would be impossible anywhere to
find more domestic felicity than
among the great circle of our modern
men and women OF letters. Mr.. an6
Mrs. S. C. Hall, the two Brownings
the two Howitts, Tennyson and hi.
wife. Charles Kingsley, Baron Bunser
and his wife, and many others lesI
noted might be mentioned, while tn,
Englishmen OF prominence in othel
fields have the same good fortune.
Beaconstield married a lively youn,
widow, who made him perfectly
happy and he never lost an occasion
OF singing her praises. DR.. Arnold, o
Rugby, is cited as having an almost
ideal home life, and also the late Dear
Stanley. All the world knows how
happy the Gladstones are in theil
family circle, and SO it is with many
Others.
On this side OF the ocean we ar,
droud OF the domestic purity anc
happiness of most OF our noted men
Longfellow, Emerson. Alcott; Holmes
Lowell, Hawthorne-all down tn,
long and glorious list, we can proudly
point to genius sanctitied by domestic
love, and none the less happy becaus,
they were literary people.