. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ho do becomeOld in their youth, and die ere middle-age,Without the violence of warlike death;Some perishing of pleasure, some of study,Some worn with toil, some of mere weariness,Some of disease, and some insanity,And some of witherd, or of broken hearts;For this last is a malady which slaysMore than are numberd in the lists of Fate,Taking all shapes, and bearing many upon me! for even of all these thingsHave I partaken; and of all these things,One were enough.
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ho do becomeOld in their youth, and die ere middle-age,Without the violence of warlike death;Some perishing of pleasure, some of study,Some worn with toil, some of mere weariness,Some of disease, and some insanity,And some of witherd, or of broken hearts;For this last is a malady which slaysMore than are numberd in the lists of Fate,Taking all shapes, and bearing many upon me! for even of all these thingsHave I partaken; and of all these things,One were enough. Byron, Manfred. LORD BYRON 173 From the violence and the rule of passion;From pride and vanity and an ignorant confidence;From sensuality, from presumption, from despair;From a state of temptation and a hardened spirit;From delaying of repentance and a persevering in sin;From all infatuation of soul, folly and madness;From wilfulness, self-love, and vain ambition;From a vicious life and an unprovided Death;Good Lord, deliver usl Jeremy Taylor. Authorities: Milligan; Trelawney; Moore; Dictionary of National 1Jkkihu\ t.\.ifom an engraving by IV, Holl after Klocbar. No. 80 The Death of Ludwig van Beethoven. Born i6thDecember 1770 at Bonn. Died in Vienna on26th March 1827. DEAF, sad, and solitary, Beethoven felt his end approaching. He was areally and deeply religious man. His creed, as written by himself,was: God! That which is: which was: and which shall be. Nomortal man hath lifted His veil! He is alone by Himself, and to Him alonedo all things owe their being! Beethoven loved Nature and the woods and wilds. There, tie said,every tree seems to say Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty! At the time of his death he was a strong thickset man of middle height,with gray hair flowing like a mane from his leonine head. His large deep-set gray eyes had a wild and wandering expression, and he was somewhatunsteady in his movements, as one walking in a dream. He would sit downin
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