THE SORROWS OF GENIUS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XI, Issue 3183, 2 December 1878, Page 3

THE SORROWS OF GENIUS.

Hojieb was a beggar; Plautus turned a mill; Terence was a slave; Bc#thius died in jail; Paul Borgheze had fourteen trades f and yet starved with them all; Tasso was often distressed for fivd shillings; Bentiveglio was refused admittance into a hospital he bad himself erected; Cervantes died of hunger; the celebrated writer of the " Lusiad" ended his days, it is said, in an almshouse, and at any rate was supported by a faithful black servant, who begged in the streets ofLisbon tor the only man in Portugal on whom God had bestowed those talents which have a tendenoy to erect the spirit of a downward age; and Vangelas left his body to the surgeons to pay his debts as far as the money would go; Bacon lived a life of meanness and distress; Sir Waltor Raleigh died on the scaffold; Spenser, the charming Spenser, died in want; tho death of Collins came through neglect first causing mental derangement; Milton sold his copyright of Paradise Lost for fifteen pounds, at three paymonts, and finished his life in obscurity; Drydon lived in poverty and distress; Otway died prematurely, and through hunger; Lee died in the streets; Steele lived a life of perfect warfare with bailiff*; Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield was sold for a trifle to save him from the gripe of tho law; Fielding lies in the burying ground of the English factory at Lisbon without a stone to mark tho spot; Savage died in prison at Bristol, where ho was confined for a debt of eight pounds; Butler lived in penury and died poor; Ghatterton, the child of genius and misfortune, destroyed himself.