All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.
"Universal Love of Pleasure,"--_Thomas Warton_.
THOMAS WARTON, a distinguished English clergyman, critic, was born at
Basingstoke, August 1 (?), 1728, and died at Oxford, May 21, 1790. He
was poet-laureate of England in 1785. He wrote: "History of English
Poetry," etc.
Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.
--_F. Marion Crawford_.
FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD, a celebrated American author, was born in Bagni
di Lucca, Italy, August 2, 1854, and died in 1909. Among his noted works
are: "Dr. Claudius," "Mr. Isaacs," "A Tale of a Lonely Parish,"
"Zoroaster," "With the Immortals," "Sant' Ilario," "The Witch of
Prague," "Love in Idleness," "A Rose of Yesterday," "Don Orsino," "Via
Crucis," "In the Palace of the King," "The Heart of Rome," "Fair
Margaret," and its sequel, "Prima Donna."
Best they honor thee
Who honor in thee only what is best.
"The True Patriotism,"--_William Watson_.
SIR WILLIAM WATSON, a famous English poet, was born at Wharfedale,
August 2, 1858. He has published: "The Prince's Quest," "Epigrams of
Art," "Wordsworth's Grave, and Other Poems," "Lachrymæ Musarum,"
"Excursions in Criticism," "The Eloping Angels," "Odes, and Other
Poems," "The Purple East," "The Year of Shame," "The Hope of the World,"
"Collected Poems," "For England: Poems Written During Estrangement,"
"New Poems," "Pencraft; A Plea for the Older Ways," "Retrogression,"
"The Man Who Saw," "The Superhuman Antagonists," etc.
Ah woe is me, through all my days,
Wisdom and wealth I both have got,
And fame and name and great men's praise;
But Love, ah! Love I have it not.
"The Way to Arcady,"--_Henry C. Bunner_.
HENRY CUYLER BUNNER, a celebrated American poet and story-writer, was
born in Oswego, N. Y., August 3, 1855, and died in Nutley, N. J., May
11, 1896. He wrote: "A Woman of Honor," "Airs from Arcady and
Elsewhere," "The Runaway Browns," "Zadoc Pine and Other Stories,"
"Jersey Street and Jersey Lane," "The Midge," "Short Sixes," etc.
All love is sweet,
Given or returned. Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
* * * * *
They who inspire it most are fortunate,
As I am now; but those who feel it most
Are happier still.
"Prometheus Unbound," Act ii, Sc. 5.--_Percy B. Shelley_.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, the renowned English poet, was born at Field
Place, near Horsham, Sussex, August 4, 1792, and was drowned off the
coast of Italy, July 8, 1822. Among his many works may be mentioned: "A
Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things," "Queen Mab: A
Philosophic Poem," "Rosalind and Helen: A Modern Eclogue; with Other
Poems," "Hellas: A Lyrical Drama," "Adonais: an Elegy on the Death of
John Keats," "The Cenci: A Tragedy," "Prometheus Unbound: a Lyrical
Drama," "An Address to the Irish People," "Alastor, or the Spirit of
Solitude, and Other Poems," "A Vindication of Natural Diet," "A
Refutation of Deism," etc.
Opinions!--they are like the clothes we wear, which warm us, not
with heat, but with ours.
--_Walter Pater_.
WALTER (HORATIO) PATER, a distinguished English literary and art critic,
was born at London, August 4, 1839, and died at Oxford, July 30, 1894.
He wrote: "The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry," "Marius the
Epicurean," "Imaginary Portraits," "Appreciations," "Plato and
Plato-nism," "The Child in the House," etc.
There was something sinister and superb in the song of these
shipwrecked and condemned creatures, something like a prayer and
also something grander and comparable to the ancient and sublime,
_Ave Cæsar, morituri te salutant_.
"La Petite Rogue,"--_Guy de Maupassant_.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT, a noted French novelist, was born at the Château de
Miromesnil, (Seine-Inférieure), August 5, 1850, and died in Paris, July
6, 1893. Among his many works are: "In the Sunshine," "On the Water,"
"The Left Hand," "The Sisters Rondoli," "Peter and John," "Strong as
Death," "Tales of Day and Night," "Our Heart," "A Wondering Life," etc.