Show GREAT NAMES HAVE GONE long list of men of genius whose line li Is no longer longe represented on the earth when one considers how many fam am alies there are which trace their an bestry in a direct line for many generations erat ions it Is rather a surprising fact that there Is not a single living de ascendant ant in the male line of 0 some ot of the greatest men the world orld has ever produced for the preservation of 0 our illusions re regarding gardin g genius it probably is far ar better that there should be no disappointing ordIn ordinary alry persons left in the world to represent the men whom we delight to honor to find a milton engaged in the insurance su rance business or a byron on the stock exchange would jar dreadfully on ones sense of the fitness of things the following is a list of some of the illustrious men wh oselIne whose ine never be represented on the earth again as long as the world stands chaucer shakespeare spencer milton cowley butler dryden pope cowper goldsmith myron byron moore sir philip sidney sir walter raleigh drake cromwell hampden monk peterborough Peter borough nelson bolingbroke walpole chatham pitt fox burke washington canning bacon locke newton davy hume gibbon macauley li hogarth sir joshua reynolds sir thomas lawrence david garrick john kemble edmund kean |