The Percy anecdotesCollected and edited by Reuben and Sholto PercyVerbatim reprint of the original ed., with a prefby John Timbs . Otway was suffocated throughj the rapacity of hunger; Butler and Drydenstruggled through life, in a state of the mostI precarious indigence : Chatterton went madI from sheer want ; and Dekker, Cotton,j Savage, and Lloyd, breathed their last inI gaols. Let us hope that a brighter era has nowi dawned on the literature of England. The reading public of past times, was but a smalli bodj compared with that of the present; and! the public, collectively considered, is alw
The Percy anecdotesCollected and edited by Reuben and Sholto PercyVerbatim reprint of the original ed., with a prefby John Timbs . Otway was suffocated throughj the rapacity of hunger; Butler and Drydenstruggled through life, in a state of the mostI precarious indigence : Chatterton went madI from sheer want ; and Dekker, Cotton,j Savage, and Lloyd, breathed their last inI gaols. Let us hope that a brighter era has nowi dawned on the literature of England. The reading public of past times, was but a smalli bodj compared with that of the present; and! the public, collectively considered, is alwaysI a good and generous master. It may liej sometimes mistaken as to the merits of a can-didate for favour ; but it is never mistakenlong. A performance, too, may be forced fora time into reputation ; but destitute of realmerit, it soon sinks ; time, the touchstone ofwhat is truly valuable, soon discovers its pre-cise value. In short, there can be littledoubt, that a writer of real merit may noweasily be rich, if his heart be set on fortune ;and for those who have no merit, it is but fitthat such should remain in ANECDOTES OF FIDELITY. All like the purchase; few the price will pay;And this makes friends such miracles bel-ow. A friend is worth all hazards we can run. Poor is the friendless master of a world :A world in purchase for a friend, is gain. —YOUNG. To Die rather than Betray. Mariaxa, In his ? History of Spain, relatesthat a countryman having killed Lucius_ Piso,the governor of the kingdom, was subjectedto torture, in order to extort from him a con-fession of his confederates. He endured thefirst days torments with invincible courage ;but mistrusting himself on the second, heslipped out of the hands of the executioneras he was going to the rack, and dashed hishead with such violence against a stone wall,that he died immediately. How honourablethus to sacrifice life, rather than to be forcedthrough extremity of pain to disclose thatwhich he had sworn to co
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