The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-10-25

Whether Du Maurler really said IN
speaking OF h's most popular work, Yes,
it has been successful but the pop ll1uty
has Killed me az last dOcEnt matter
much except 10 cOmpllers OF the iast
words Of Well-knOwn mon The senu-
ment is admitted 10 bee true in any event.
The dying words OF men of thought are
not as fertile In suggestion . the dy-
ing words OF lncn OF action. Few OF these
last phrases Of literary workers ring iu
the mind. Yet all arc OF interest. Ienny-
sons last words are not chrOnicled, but
the world remembers that he died with
his hand on Shakespeare open ut 'tynbc-
line at that soothing song which begins.
Fear no more the heat o. the sun,
Nor the furious winters RACES.
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gCne and "a en- thy wages.
Golden lads and girls all must
As chimney Weepers, come 10 dust.
Keats last words are well remembered,
Il feel the daisies growing over me.
Drop the curtain, the farce Is played
out" cynically and calmly remarked Ia
belais.
Boileau the poet. died Of dropsy. A
friend came into the room. ana I'M one
sentence Boileau bade him hail ana fare
well. saying: GoOd-day and adieui II VIII
be a very long adieu, and instantly eN-
what can It signify" asked Cowpcr
Of a woman who had handed him a cor
dial
Just before. when asked how he felt he
said: Feel? 1 feel unutteraDle' unuttef1-
God bless you. God bless you said
Crabbe. So did Or. Johnson. 80 also
said Wordslorth and Edmund Burke
Edward Gibbons why do YOU leave
mo?' is strkingly like Adam Clarke $
Are you going2'
Burns dying anxiety was expressed as
Don't let that awkward squad fire over
Il must sleep now" were Byron's last
words at Missolonghi, in 1924.
a dying man can do nothing easy
OF Goethe il is said his dying lips muir
INJURED something about a beautiful wo-
mans face, while another authority
nuotes him as saying. Let the light en-
ter" and yet another as saying, More
light"
Herbert. Archbishop Cranmer said IL az
the stake and 50 also did Ferrar, theo-
Logan.
Grotius. the historian. said BE serious,
while j. X. Green, another historian SAID
Il die learning"
/ feel as il / were myself again" said
Sir Walter Scott. Just before he had
called Lockhart. his son-in-law and BIZ
ographer. to him. and said, 'Lockhard, l
may have but moment 10 speak 20 you.
A
Nothing else will give you any comfort
when you come 10 face death, as ! am
now"
Joy" was the utterance Of Mrs. Han
nah More and Happy that OF Sir Jas.
Macintosh. the istorian.
Dying. dying" said Tom Hood humor-
ist adding. Il am dying out Of charity
to the undertaken, who wishes to win
lively Hood.
Douglas Jerrold's last words We're, Il
feel as one who IS waiting ana waited
for"
am what I am; I am what am, re-
nooted Swift who. ere his body died. lost
his mind-died at the top, as mas oeen
said. ,,... s.,...
the finishing touch OF pathos 10 a pa
thetic career. Il am not going 10 de am
u" she asked of her husband after a Few
months OF married life. He VIII not
separate US; we have been so happy.
NO IL is not" were Goldsmith last
words. and were in answer to ms DOC i.'
tors question us your mind at ease
Joseph Addison when dying. called the
voune Earl OF Warwick. his wiles son,
A dissinated man. 10 mis- bedside. sayihb'
Il have sent for you that you may see
how a Christian can die. SIR ienty
Uavelock expressed the same idea 10 his
son. -.
Pope was poseur artificial to the last
oosn He said lust before dying: There
is nothing which H. meritorious hut virtue
and friendship and. indeed friendship IT.
self Is only n part Of virtue"
Thomas Hobbies said. despairingly:
am taking a fearful Leap IN tne uarh.
and Tom Paine said: oh how | dread
tbis nvsterious lean I'm the dark"
Rosseau said: Throw 40 the window
that NAV once more see the magnificent
scene OF nature< , -. ma,
schiller said MANY things thaI were
always mysterious to me are rapiuls pe
coming nerfeotlv clear. but | have not
the strength to explain them.
our own Irving said: If die. i die
INTO the Lord Amen."-New York Press.
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