Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-10

words, 1 reused to a sense of my indecorum
by seeing her suddenly blush. believe that Miss
Blak- interpreted my admiration rightly; for she
was not offended; but, the contrary, for the
rest of the day, when not attending to her sister,
conversed almost exclusively, and in confidential
way, with Lord Westport and myself And
from this day l was an altered creature, never
again relapsng into the careless ineffective mind
of childhood"
Whatever the bushing Irish beauty may have
thought that August afternoon in the year of grace
flush which irresistby suffused her cheeks in pres
ence of the boys admring gaze would co,or all the
future of De Quinceys life, and be pictured through
his genius to the observal of the world. Did
Fames caprice ever bestow larger reward for
effort slight. insignificant? The blush that
charmed the boy charmed also the genius of immor-
tality.
What more conspicuous instance of unconscious
renown than the fame of Annie Laurie? If tradition
be true, the daughter of Sir William Laurie i'm
mortalized through the devotion of lovesck swain
whose affection awoke no response in the heart of
the girl. Seldom if ever is the of the poet
given with the song; but her name lies linge-ngly
upon the lips of every lover who lisp the sweet
Scottish ditty. Unless the story bellies her, the
promise true" proved a rope of sand yet her
name is the dearest title that lover bestow upon
the girl of his choice for the name is synonym of
mans highest DEVOTION and not of woman's faith
lessness; if indeed she fathess of whom the
poet sang.
turesque beauty William Motherwells "Jeannie
Morrison, in which he celebrates the love of his boy
hood Motherwe died at thirty eight, worn out by
his seemingly frutless strivings after enduring
fame One or two of his simplest poems still live.
Immortalized His Friends
THE poet Moore had special delight in associ-
i ating the names of his friends with his verse.
Such fame he for himself he literally shared
with his favorites in the gay cotere of which he
the bright particular star. He did not confne his
favors to his friends but occasionally contributed
to the sort of renown which Dryden and Pope i'm
posed upon their unfortunate rivals in the days
the poets Moore's pasquinades trifes, however
compared with 'MacFlecknoe" and The Dun
clad" Shadwell is chiefly remembered as the Mac
F1ecknoe of Drydens deathless satire, and Colley
Cibber, though worthy of better fate is plloried
by Pope Shadwell's successor to the throne of
dullness, bad eminence from which all the literary
judges have not been able to release him. Perhaps
the men who tried to laugh them out of court have
i1nmortalized the otherwise forgotten poets whom
they scoffed at and derided. MacF1ecknoe and
The Dunciad" reflect quite as seriously upon the
moral qualities of Dryden and Pope they do upon
the mental qualities of Shadwe and Cibber.
Every biography abounds in the names of OBJ
securities who their little fame to the accident of
contact with greatness. Especially volumes of
autobiography likely to be filled with personal
reference Such books are not often written in the
stately, almost stilted style of Edward Gibbon,
whose aristocratic sympathies are plainly evident
in the eXcusiVeneSS which leads him to say in the
story of his life, AS am entering on more
ample field of society and study, can hope to avoid
vain and proix garrulity only by overlooking the
vulgar crowd of my acquaintance, and combining
myself to such intimate friends among books and
merit and reputation by the deep impression which