The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-20
REJECTED SU|TORS.
Lovers Who Have Been Vic
tins of Cupid'S Franks.
Byr0n'S Cruel Experience With
Miss Chaworth---Shelley'
Affairs of the Heart.
philadelphia Times.l


have suffered equal pspgs and surviv.
ed the same ordeal to find married
hsppins So elsewhere.
Even Byron, that most beautiful
and gifted oil men, hal more than his
share OF reiusals. and one of them at
least Yves accompanied by words
which left sting to his last day.
He was only Harrow school boy Of
sixteen when he fell madly In love
with Miss Chaworth. Of Aunesley, q
young heiress OF some beauty. who
was two years older than himself.
But Miss Chaworth treated all the
boys shy advances with laughter and
contempt, and. although he vas "sui-
Ieriug the tortures Of the lost" for
her sake, refused to take him serious.
ly. But the browning blow came
when, in an adj acent room, he over
heard Miss Chsworth say to her
maid. do you think ! could care
anything for that lame boyi' This
cruel speech" he afterward said. Twas
like a shot through my heart. Al.
though II was late and pitch dark. l
darted out Of the house and never
stopped running until I reached New.
stead"
Shelley. too, almost as handsome
and as gifted ss Byron. knew from
more than one experience the "pangs
OF r. lection" After he had b zen ex-
PEELED from Oxford and went to Lon.
eou with bis fellow culprit. Hogg, to
live. he ieli violently 10 love with his
lsndisdy's daughter, who bore the
unsomatic name Of Ell, jenkins
But Eliza. even though he threatened
to commit suicide In his despair. re.
fused to have anything to do with
him. and when q few months later,
having thought better ofthe suicidal
threat, he sought to console himself
by paying court to Miss Harriet
Grove, . pretty cousin. She was so
alarmed at his heterodoxies that she
sent him very decidedly about his
business.
When Sheridan. following the ex
ample OF many other amorous young
men, fell over head and ears In love
with Miss Linley, the beautiful sing
er. "she only laughed at his srdor
and maGe faces At him behind his
back" and yet he used that subtle
and eloquent tongue OF his to such
purpose that he actually rau away
with her to French nunnery and
married her sitei fighting several
dueis with his rivals and her persecu-
tors.
When Burke, the great politician
and orator. was q student at Trinity
college, Dublin. he Is said to have
mad more than ore love dissppoint-
ment. His first infatustion was Tor
the daughter OF a small publican,
"whose dark eyes fred the blood oil
the young Irishmsn." but after CO.
quoting with him for q time she jilt-
ed him In the most heartless fashion.
His success. too. with his beautiful
country woman. Margaret Voting
ton. was no greater, although he re-
manned her loyal lover to the last.
When Abraham Lincoln. as ayouth
Of eighteen, was Giving In a rude log
cabin In Spencer county, Ind, and
picking mp the rudimeuts Of educa'
ton In the intervals Of rail splitting
and plowing." hefell In love with the
daughter OF poor Irish settler in a
eighboring log cabin. and after
many clumsy failures to declare his
love to her In person penned with DIFF
ficulty one of his first letters, asking
herto become his wife.
He never received an answer to this
clumsy efiuslon." as he afterwards
called 1t, but when next he met Bird
get "she tossed her head aud looked
another way" She was much to
good, she Is said to have declared, to
marry gawky faMm laporer. Then
It was that Lincoln left the paternal
cabin and voyaged as hired hand on
a Astbpat into that greater world
before ing was to ring with the name
of the gswky farm boy. When, thir-
teen years or so later, Abraham LIN
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