. 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. born in that city in 1794, buther infant years were passed in her childhood she wrote a numberof poems which were collected andprint
. 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. born in that city in 1794, buther infant years were passed in her childhood she wrote a numberof poems which were collected andprinted in book-form while she was inher fourteenth year. Another volume ofpoems, on the domestic affections, pub-lished in 1812, established her poeticreputation. Having been married in 1812to Captain Hemans, she became themother of five sous, after which her hus-band parted from her and went to Italyto recuperate bis failing health, and theynever met again. In order to meet theexpense of educating her children, shewrote for periodicals, in which many ofher shorter poems appeared. Between this period and that of herdeath, near Dublin, in 1835, she published Tales and HistoricScenes, Modern Greece, Dartmoor (a prize poem), TheSkeptic, The Vespers of Palermo, a play, which was successfullyacted at Edinburgh, although its representation in London her death she rezuoved to Dublin, where a brother last poem was A Sabbath 1 Scutche ?»4- talent, j * T nrm tl Author of THE BROWNINGS. OBERT BROWNING wat< born at Camberwell, England, in 1812,and was educated at the London university. Alwut 1832 he wentto Italy, and remained there several years, studying the history andcharacteristics of the people. In 1835 was published his dramaticpoem of Paracelsus, and in 1837 his tragedy of Strafford wasproduced in a London theater, but Imlb met with ()nly moderatepopularity. His poem of Sordello appeared in 1840, but wascondemned by the public as an unintelligible
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