The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-08-11
LITERARY MEN AS HUSBANDS.
Many of them Enjoyed Very Little Do
mestic Bliss.

The great Dante was married to a
notorious scold, and when he was in
exile he had no desire to see her, al
though she was the mother of his six
children.
Shakespeare lost the sympathies of the
world by marrying Anne Hathaway.
a woman eight years his senior, who
was coarse and ignorant.
1t is told of Lord Bacon that he ell
loved but little domestic bliss and
~loyed not to be with his partner"
Milton was not great in the char
acter 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 artists. Domepichino. it
is told that he married a lady OF high
birth and great beauty, who was such
yirago that it is believed she poison
ed him.
Montaigne. when a widower, said he
would not marry again, though it
were to wisdom itself.
Molliere was married to a wife who
made him miserable. and Rousseau
lived most wretched life with his
wife, who was low and illiterate.
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, COleridge,
Byron and Shelley were al 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: 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 enamor-
ed"
Sir Walter Raleigh married beau
tiful girl eighteen years his junior. and
she adorcd 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 sixty
four" he being only forty-three.
Button told his friend that his wife
had a great influence over his compo-
sition. II am always refreshed and
aided by her advice"
Sir Walter Scott was genius of the
very first order. He succeeded in cv-
cry department of letters; bat his
greatest happiness was his wife. He
married her after short acquaint-
ance, and it was 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.
Shelley's first marriage was unfor-
tunatc. but his second was model of
happiness.
Wordsworth made love-match and
was lover through life.
The wife of Christopher North had
more influence over him than any 9TH
er person in the world, and her death
was his greatest of misfortunes.
Lamartine, the great French poet,
was happily married and received
great aid from his wife in all his un-
dertaking.
1t 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.
5. G. Hall. the two Brownings, the two
Howitts, Tennyson and his wife
Charles Kingsley, Baron Bunsen and
his wife, and many others less noted
might be mentioned, while the English
men of prominence in other fields have
the same good fortune.
Beaconsfield married 4 lively Young
widow; who made him perfectly hap
Ply, and he never lost an occasion OF
singing her praises. Dr.. Arnold, OF
Rugby, is cited as having an almost
ideal home-lifc, and also the late Dean
Stanley. All the world knows how
happy the Gladstones are in their fam
lily circle, and so it is with many 9TH
erS
On this side of the ocean we are
proud of the domestic purity and hap
pinesS of most of our noted men. Long
fellow, Emerson, Alcott, Holmes,
Lowell, Hawthorne-all down the long
and glorious list we can proudly point
to genius sanctiticd by domestic love,
and none the less happy because they
were literary peoplc.-The Writer.