Celebrated Authors

vrroto excellent y o.i temporáneo- wuen sooer. gallust, who dechiimed so eloquently aga'inst the liceiitiousness of the age, waa himselt' a habitual dobauuhfcti Joliuson's essay on politeness is admirable, but ho wal hitnseïf a perfect bour. The gloomy verses of Ynuiig give one the b'ues, but ho was a bri.sk lively wan, '' The comforts of Human Life, by B. Ileron, was written in piison, uudor the most distressing eiroumatmiot'S. " TIis Miseries of Human Life,:' by BeresforJ, vrore, on thu ooutriry oomposed in a drawing room, where ths author wa.s surrou.ided with everv luxury. All the frieuds of Storuo knew Lim to bo a salfi-sh raau ; vet, as a writer, he exceiled in pathos and eharity, at one time beating hia wife, at another wasting his sympitblf over a dead monkoy. So Sencea wrote io praise of poverty on a tabla formed of soHd goi, with millions let nut at luury.