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Show CREAT THINKERS. Tbe Ages at Which Their Beat Works Were Produced. Mohammed began the Koran at 35. Shelly wrote "Queen Mab" at 18. Keats wrote hie "Kodymion" at 23. - -" -'Alexander Dumas wrote plays at 23. Disraeli wrote "Vivian Gray" at 21. - Heine published his first songs at 23. Swift wrote the "Tale of a Tub" at 37. Seneca wrote "De Beneflcls" after 50. Richardson published "Pamela" at 51. Racine wrote the ''Andromache" at 28. Paley wrote the "Horse Pauline" at 47. Coleridge published 'Christabel" at 44. Pliny finished the "German War" at 81. Luther wrote hie ninety-five theses at 34. Poe wrote "The Raven" in his 36th year. Confucious began his religious works at 30. Owen Meredith published "Lucille" at 23. Butlers wrote "Hudibars" after be was 60. Lord Bacon wrote the Novum Organon at 41. 8terne published "Tristam Shandy" at 46. Shakespeare wrote his first play at about 4. Michiavelli completed "The Prince" at 45. Boileau wrote his hrt satirical poem at 34. Sir Thomas Moore finished his "Utopia" at 73. Spenser published the "Faerie Queene" at 38. Perseus is thought to have written his satires at 45. Corneille wrote "Melite," his first drama, at 21. Pavid Is said to have written his first psalm tlS. Goldsmith finished "The Deserted Village" at 43. Sheridan wrote "The School for Scandal" at 26. Josephus published his "Wars of the Jews" at 56. Calvin published bis "PsychopaonychU" t 25. It is said that Horace wrote his first odes at 23. Taeitus finished the first part of his history at 50. Llvy Is said t have finished his "Annals" at 50. Lamartine's poems appeared when the poet was 30. - Thackeray was 36 when "Vanity Fair" appeared. ap-peared. Homer is said to have composed the 'Iliad" after 60. Dante finished tbe "Divina Commendia" at about 51. Samuel Johnson published "London" when ho was 29. Solomon is said to bare collected the Proverbs at 50. The Bucoliee of Virginia were written be-tween be-tween 43 and 47. John Bunyou finished the "Pilgrim's Progress" at 50. George Eliot, was SO when "Adam Bede" was printed. Baxter wrote "Saint's Everlasting Eest" at 34. Robert Browning wrote "The Ring and the Book" at 57. Adam Smith published "The Wealth of. Rations" at 55. Thomas A'Kempis wrote the "Imitations of Christ" at 84. Voltaire's first tragedy came out when tbe author was 22. Hannah Moore wrote "The Search After Happiness" at 23. Martial Is said to have written epigrams before bo 'was 20. Bryant was 19 when made famous by 'Thansatopis." Joseph Addisen's first essays appeared when he was 29. Terence is believed to have written his first play at about 25. Hugh Miller published "The Testimony of tbe Rocks" at 55. According to tradition Buddha began bis revelations at 85. Maria Edsrewortb wrote her story "Castle Rackrent" at 84. "Tbe Pleasures of Hope" appeared when Campbell was 23. Burns wrotu songs In childhood, and pub. lished some at 16, (J Ub-Democrat. |