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Show of penury and died poor; Chatterton, the child of genius and misfortune distroyed himself. Tho Sorrows of Genius. ,HQmer wasa begger; Plautus turnT ed a mill;' Terence 'was'a ' slavey Bcethius died in jail; Paul Borgeze had fourteen trades, and yet starved with them all; Tasso was often distressed for five shillings; Ben-tivoglio Ben-tivoglio was refused admittance into a hospital he had himself erected; Cervantes died of hunger; the cele-i brated writer of the "Lusiad"ended days, it is said, in an almshouse, and at any rate was supported by a faithful black servant, who begged in the street of Lisbon for the only man in Portugal, on whom God had bestowed those talents which have a tendency to erect the spirit of downward down-ward age; and Vagelasleft 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 Raleigh died on the scaffold; Spencer, the charming, died in want; the death of Collins came through neglect first causing mental men-tal derangement; Milton sold his copyright of "Paradise Lost" for fifteen pounds, at three payments, and finished his life in 'obscurity; Dryden lived in poverty and distress; Otway died in the street; Steele lived a life of perfeot warfare with bailiffs; Goldsmith's Vicar of the Wakefield" was sold for a trifle to save him from the grip of the law; Fielding lies in the burying-ground burying-ground of the English factory at Lisbon, without a stone to mark the spot; Savage died in prison at Bristol where he was confined for the debt ai eight pounds; Butler lived a life |