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DISTRESSES OP MEN OF GENIUS.
Pope Urban VIII. erected an hospital for
the benefit of decayed authors, and called it
41 The Retreat of the Incurables,” intimating
that it was equally impossible to reclaim the
patients from poverty or poetry.
Homer is the first poet and beggar of note
among the ancients: he was blind, sung his
ballads about the streets, and his mouth was
oftener filled with verses than with bread.
Plautus, the comic poet, was better off; for
he had two trades : he was a poet tor his di
version, amd helped to turn a mill in order to
gain a living.
Terence was a slave, and Boethius died in
a jail.
Among the Italians, Paulo Burghese, al
most as good a poet as Tasso, knew fourteen
different trades, and yet died because he could
get no employment in either of them.
Tasso was often obliged to borrow a crown
from a friend, to pay for a month's subsist
ence. He has left us a pretty sonnet to his
cat, in which he begs the light of her eyes to
write by, being too poor to buy a candle.
Bentivoglio, whose comedies will last with
the Italian language, dissipated a noble for
tune in acts'of benev nee, fell.into overty
in his old age, and was refused adu hance
into an hospital which, in his better days, he
had himself paid for building.
In Spain, ihe great Cervantes died of hun
ger ; and Camoens, equally celebrated in
Portugal, ended his days in an hospital.
In France, Vaugela? was surnamed “the
Owl,” from having been obliged to keep
within all day, and only venturing out by
nfght, through fear of his creditors. In his
last will, he bequeathed every thing towards
the discharge of his debts, and desired his
body to be sold, to that end.
Cassandar was one of the greatest geniuses
of his time, but barely able to procure his
livelihood.
In England, the last days of Spenser, Ot
way, Butler and Dryden are a national re
proach.
THE SILENT CLUB.
There was at Amadan a celebrated aca
demy. Its first rule was framed in these
words :
“ The members of this academy shall
think much—write little—and be as mute as
they can.”
A candidate offered himself—he was too
late—the vacancy was filled up—they knew
his merit, and lamented their disappointment
in lamenting his own. The president was
to announce the event; he desired the candi
date should be introduced.
He appeared with a simple and modest
air, the sure testimony of merit. The presi
dent rose, and presented a cup of pure water
to him, so full, that a single drop more would
have made it overflow ; to this emblematic
hint he added not a word ; but his counte
nance expressed deep affliction.
The candidate understood that he could
not be received because the number was com
plete, and the assembly full; yet he main
tained his courage, and began to think by
what expedient, in the same kind of language,
he could explain that a supernumerary aca
demician would displace nothing, and make
no essential difference in the rule they had
prescribed:
Observing at his feet a rose, he picked it
up, and laid it gently upon the surface of
the water, so gently that not a drop of it es
caped. Upon this ingenuous reply, the ap
plause was universal ; the rule slept or
winked in his favor. They presented imme
diately to him the register upon which the
successful candidate was in the habit of wai
ting his name. He wrote it accordingly ; he
had then only to thank them in a single
phrase, but he chose to thank them without
saying a word.
He figured upon the margin the number of
his new associates, 100; then, having put a
cipher before the figure 1, he wrote under it
—“ their value will be the same’' I —oloo.
To this modesty the ingenious president re
plied with a politeness equal to his address :
he put the figure 1 before the 100. and wrote,
“ they will have eleven times the value then
had—l loo
HYPOCHONDRIA.
A person at Taunton often kept at home
for several weeks, under an idea of danger
in going abroad. Sometimes he imagined
that he was a cat, and seated himself on his
hindquarters ; at other times he would fancy
himself a tea-pot, and stand with one arm
a-kimbo like the handle, and the other
stretched out like a spout. At last he con
ceived himself to have died, and would not
3 ft) ‘o’ Uisli £1 <L3 if lAA Hi I ®ASISif TANARUS& ♦
move or be moved till the coffin came. His |
wife, in serious alarm, sent for a surgeon,
who addressed him with the usual salutation,
“ How do you do*this morning ?•”
“ Do !” replied he in a low 7 Voice, “a pretty
question to a dead man !”
“ Dead, sir ! what do you mean ?”
“ Yes, I died last Wednesday ; the coffin
will be here presently, and I shall be buried
to-morrow.”
The surgeon, a man of sense and skill, im
mediately felt the patient’s pulse, and shaking
his head, said, “ I find it is indeed too true:
you are certainly defunct; the blood is in a
state of stagnation, putrefaction is about to
take place, and the sooner you are buried the
better.”
The coffin arrived, he was carefully placed
in it, and carried towards the church. The
surgeon had previously given instructions to
several neighbors how to proceed. The pro
cession had scarcely moved a dozen yards,
when a person stopped to inquire w T ho they
v 7 ere carrying to the grave ? “ Mr. ,
our late worthy overseer.”
“ What! is the old rogue gone at last ? a
good release, for a greater vil ain never
lived.”
The imaginary deceased no sooner heard
this attack on his character, than he jumped
up, and in a threatening posture said, “ You
lying scoundrel, if I was not dead I’d make
you suffer for what you say ; but as it is, I
am forced to submit.” He then quietly laid
down again ; but ere they had proceeded half
way to church, another party stopped the
procession with the same inquiry, and added
invective and abuse. This was more than
the supposed corpse could bear; and jumping
from the coffin, was in the act of following
his defamers, when the whole party burst in
to an immoderate fit of laughter, the public
exposure awakened him to a sense of his fol
ly, and he fought against the weakness, and,
in the end, conquered it.
LITERARY INGENUITY.
Odo tenet mulura, madidam mappam tenet anna.
The above line is said, in an old book, to
have “cost the inventor much foolish labor,
for it is a perfect verse, and every word is the
very same both backward and forward!”
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