The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-01
LITERARY MEN AS HUSBANDS.
Many of Them Enjoyed Very Little
Domestic Bliss.
Mos. fbe LIyxsSs.

Many or Them enjoyed very Little
Domestic Bliss.
From the Writer.
The great Dante was married to notort-
GUS scoid, and when he was In exile he had
no wish to see her, although she was the
mother Of his Elk children.
Shakespeare lost the sympathies of the
world by marrying Anne Hathaway, a
woman eight years his senior, who was
COARSE and ignorant
Il is told of Lord Bacon that he enjoyed
but little domestic bliss, and flowed 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 vas 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, Domenichino, it is
told that he married lady of high birth
and great beauty, who was sach virago
that it is believed she poisoned him.
Montaigne, when widower, said he
would not marry again. though it were to
wisdom ITSELF"
Moliere was married to wife who made
him miserable, and Rousseau lived most
wretched life with his wife, who was low
and iliterate
Dryden married discord in a noble
"lAo, anu f1QuASOU SuIh ulLuSolL W u GTObS~
grained old countess, who made him pay
dearly for all she gave him.
Steele, Sterne, Churchill, Coleridge. By
ron 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 hi
wife, Calphurnia: "Her affection for me has
given her turn for books; her passion will
lnHraaaa with HaUs ia Of nv.
youth nor my person that she loves, but my
reputation and my glory OF which she is en-
amoredn
Sir Walter Raleigh married q 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 e." he being only 43.
Button told his friend that his wife had
great influence over his composition. 81
am always refreshed and aided by her ad-
Yloe.n
Sir Walter Scott was genius of the very
first order. He succeeded In every depart
ment of letters; but his greatest happiness
was in bis wife. He married her after a
short acquaintance, and it was a genuine
love match. lasting until the day of her
death.
Moors's wife was one of the noblest Great
ures. and be never tired of singing her
praises,
Ske!ley's first marriage was unfortunate,
but mis- second was a model of happiness.
Wordsworth made love match and was
rover through life.
The wife OF Christopher North bad more
influence over him than any other person in
the world and her death was his greatest
OF mlsfortunss.
Lamartine, the great French poet. was
happily married and received great aid
from his wife In ali his undertakings.
1t would be impossible anywhere TO find
more domestic felicity than among the
great circle of our modern mon and women
of letters. Mr.. and Mrs. 5. G. Hall, the
two Brownings, the two Howitts, Tennyson
and bis wife, Charles Kingsley, Baron
Bunsen and his wife, and many other less
noted might be mentioned, while the
Englishmen Of prominence in other fields
hive the same good fortune.
Beaconsfeld 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 know
how happy the Gladstones are in their
family circle, and 80 it is with many others.
On this side Of the ocean we are proud of
the domestic purity and happiness of most
of our noted men. Longfellow, Emerson,
Alcott. Holmes, Lowell, Hawthorne-all
down tbs long and glorious list we can
proudly point to genius sanctified by do
mestic love, and none the less happy be-
GAUGE they were literary people.