The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-17
LITERARY MHa AS HUSBANDS.
AS a Rule They Are Fh lures, and Few
of Them Enjoy Domestic Bliss.
From the Writer

of Them Enjoy Domestic Bliss.
From the Writer
The great Dante was married to a noto.
rious scold, and when he was in exile he
had no desire to see her. although she was
the mother of his six children.
Shakespeare lost the sympathies .of the
world by marrying Annie Hathaway, a wo-
man eight years his senior, who was coarse
and ignorant
1t is told of Lord Bacon that he enjoyed
but little domestic bliss and "loved not to
be with his partner"
Milton was not great in the character Of
husband and father. We read of him that
his first wife was disguised with his gloomy
house, and soon ran away from him, and
his daughters were left TO grow up utterly
neglected.
OF the great artist, Domsniohino, it is
told that he married lady OF high birth
and great beauty. who was such virago
that it is believed she poisoned him.
Montaigne, when widower, said he
wisdom itself"
Moliere was married to a wife who made
him miserable. and Rousseau lived a most
wretched life with his wife, who was low
and iliterate.
Dryden married discord in noble wife"
and Addison sold himself to a cross grained
old countess, who made him pay dearly for
all she gave him.
Steele, Sterne, Churchill Coleridoe
Byron and Shelley were all married unhap-
PLY, and Bulwer and Dickens have been
known by all the world as indifferent hus-
bands.
The younger Pliny thus speaks Of his wife,
Calphurnia: Her affection for me has
given her turn for books; her passion will
increase with our days, for it is not my
youth nor my person that she loves, but my
reputation and my glory Of which she is
enamored.h
Sir Walter Raleigh married beautiful
girl eighteen 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 "he continued to be under
the illusions Of the wedding day until
she died at the age of o." he being only 43
Button told his friend that his wife had a
great influence over his composition. II
am always refreshed and aided by her ad-
vice"
Sir Walter Scott was a genius of the
very first order. He succeeded in every de-
partment of letters, but his greatest happi-
ness was In his wife. He married her after
a short acquaintance and it was a genuine
love match, lasting until the day Of her
death.
Moores wife was one Of the noblest
creatures and he never tired of singing her
praises.
Shelley's first marriage was unfortunate,
but his second was model Of happiness
Wordsworth made a love match 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 great
est Of misfortunes.
Lamartine, the great French poet, was
happily married and received great aid
from his wife in all his undertakings
II would be impossible anywhere TO find
more domestic felicity than among the
great circle OF our modern men and women
Of letters. Mr.. and Mrs. s. G. Hall, the
two Brownings, the two Howitts, Tennyson
and his wife, Charles Kingsley. Baron Bun
sen and his wife md many others less noted
might be mentioned, while the Eng lishmen
of prominence IN other fields have the same
good fortune.
Beaconsfield married a lively young
widow, who made him perfectly happy, and
he never lost an occasion of singing her
praises. DIR. Arnold Of Rugby, is cited as
having an almost ideal home life, and also
the late Dean Stanley.
All the world knows how happy the Glad
stones are in their family circle, and 30 1t is
with many others.
On this side of the ocean we are proud of
the domestic purity aud happiness Of must
of our noted men. Longfellow, Emerson,
Alcott, Holmes, Lowell, Hawthorne-all
down the long and glorious LIST we can
proudly point TO genius sanctlfled by domes-
tic love, and none the leE happy because
they were literary people.