Famous Bachelors.
A.MOM-, bachelor authors, we have Pope, Goldsmith, Lamb, and Macaulay. Tla foeble henlth of " tho wasp of Twickenham" stood, no doubt, in tho way of his mailing. Goldsmith had not tho game excuse, but in his caee it was quite as well that ho passed through life as a bachelor. A aingleinsn who habitually spends twico as much as he has i< never likely to make a wise and prudent husband, even though he has the rare fortune to fall in with a model ol feminine sagacity. Lamb, "that frail good man," as Wordsworth calls him,wa!a bachelor, not from choice, but affection. Ths singular loyalty with which he devoted himself to his sister in circumstances of melancholy interest prevented hie marrying a girl whom, it appear?, he truly loved. Lord Macaulay, though ho had warm domestic affections, was never married, Ho rested content, with tho loving sympathy of his sister Hannah, the wife of Sir Charles Trevely an, whoso children were to him as his own. Handel, Reynolds, Turner, Sir Isaac Newton, and Cavendiah were among the men illustrious in art or science who remained bachelors.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 199, 25 August 1886, Page 4
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188Famous Bachelors. Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 199, 25 August 1886, Page 4
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