The Cook County herald., 1905-11-18
MEN WHO WROTE AND MARRIED

MEN WHO WROTH AND MANFRED
Their writing Has Been Decided
~ Happier than Their We'd
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: 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
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: Shakespeare lost the sympathies of
the world by marrying Anne Hatha-.
way, a woman eight years his senior,
who was coarse and ignorant. ..
It is told of Lord Bacon that he en-
joyed bnt little domestic bliss, and
'1oved 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
disgusted with his gloomy house, and
soon run 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 such
avirago that it is believed she poisoned
him. p. :
Montaigne, when widower, said he
would not marry again, "though it
were to wisdom itself"
Moliere was married to q 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.
Steel, Sterne, Churchill, Coleridge,
Byron, and Shelley were all 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 a turn for books;
her passion will increase with our
days, for it is not my youth nor my
person that she loves, but my reputa-
tion and my glory Of which she is ena-
mored."
Sir Walter Raleigh married beauti-
full girl, 18 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 che continued
to be under the illusions OF the we'd
ding day until she died at the age OF
64," he being only 43.
Button told his friend that his wife
had a great influence over his COM
! position. ~ am always refreshed and
aided by her advice
Sir Walter Scott was a genius of the
very first order. He succeeded in every
department OF letters, but his greatest
happiness was in his wife. He mar
ried her after a short acquaintance,
and it was genuiue 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 unfort-
unate, but his second was a model of
happiness.
Wordsworth made love match, and
was 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 greatest OF misfort-
unes.
Lamartine, the great French poet,
was happily married and received
great aid from his wife in all his un-
dertakings.
It would be impossible anywhere to
6nd more domestic felicity than
among the great circle of our modern
men and women of letters. Mr.. and
Mrs. S. C. Hall, the two Brownings,
the two Howitts, :Tennyson and bis
wife, Charles Kingsley, Baron Bunsep
and his wife, and many others less
noted might be mentioned, while the
Englishmen of prominence in other
fields have the same good fortune.
Beaconsfield married lively young
widow, who made him perfectly
happy and he never lost an occasion
OF singing her praises. DR.. 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 Gladstones are in their
family circle, and so it is with many
others.
On this side of the ocean we are
droud OF the domestic purity and
happiness OF most OF our noted men.
Longfellow, Emerson. Alcott, Holmes,
Lowell, Hawthorne-all down the
long and glorious list, we can proudly
point to genius sanctifed by domestic
love, and none the less happy because
they were literary people.