. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. Hero of a Long and Eminent Literary HE subject of thissketch was born atCummington,Mass. , Nov. 3,1794. Some of theliterary celebrit
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. Hero of a Long and Eminent Literary HE subject of thissketch was born atCummington,Mass. , Nov. 3,1794. Some of theliterary celebritiesdisplayed theirtalents very young in years. Taseo, whennine years old, wrote verses to his mlitherthat were praised. The Tragical HistoryPyramus and Thisbe. was written by Cowleywhen he was ten. At twelve, Pope wrote hisOde to Solitude, and other poems of muchmerit. But these youths exhibited no more pre-cocity than did William C. Bryant, who wrote goodf/fjV^^ ^ verse and translated from Latin for the newspapers• A^^ at ten. and at fourteen wrote a political satire entitled1*4^^ The Embargo, directed against President JeffersonJ^^^J and the Democratic party at that day, which, published inbook form, passed to the second edition in a brief time,with other poems father was a physician, distinguished for hisscholarly acquirements, good judgment and taste, and under hissupervision the boys talent was carefully nurtured. The young poet entered an advanced class in Williams
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