GREAT UNFORTUNATES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 5

GREAT UNFORTUNATES.

Homer was a beggar. Plautus turned a mill. Terence was a slave. Boctliius died in gaol. Paul Borghezo had fourteen trades, and yet starved with them all. Tasso was often distressed for ;">/. Bentivop-lio was refused admittance into a hospital he had erected. Cervantes died of hunger. Yelas left his body lo surgeons to pay his debts as far n» money would go. Bacon lived a life of meanness and distress. Sir Walter Raleigh died on the scaffold. Spencer, the charming, died in want. The death of Collins was through neglect, first causing mental derangement. Milton sold his copyright of "Paradise Lost" for £15, at three payments, and finished his life in obscurity. Dryden lived in poverty and distress. Otway died prematurely, and through hunger. Lee died in the street. Steel lived a life of perfect warfare with bailiffs. Goldsmith's "Vicar of WakeQeld" was sold for a trifle to save him from tbe grip of tbi» law. Savage died in prison at Bristol, where he was confined for a debt of Butler lived a life of penury, and died poor. Chatterton. the child of genius and misfortune, destroyed himself.