Calamities of Genius


	Calamities of Genius

Sheroug

10-9-2008 5:57 PM

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Sheroug says:

Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield was sold for a trifle to save him from the gripe of the law; Fielding lies in the burying-ground of the English factory at Lisbon, without a stone to mark the spot; Savage died in prison at Bristol, where he was confined for a debt of eight pounds; Butler lived in penury, and died poor; Chatterton, the child of genius and misfortune, destroyed himself.

– The Terrific Register, 1825

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