132 at it BY STEP SELLY, an English poet, Was bor Pat & Sosex, of August 4th, 1792, I' was the gest of Timothy Sachey, an Enviisa country gentlen, a, who Is ash rite: a baronetcy and a large e tate, to whek in pizt was her by entail. He was educated at Eron, and vent PD leto; be was expelled from the university on Varci. for pillishing a pam; et entitled The Nect.ty of In the surner of the sure year he met Harrie: Wesa el of sixt, en, the daughter of a reting London t veraand from this time had no cordial relations with his taz Ty He led a wandering sad unsettled in Engla visting the last 55 à political agat. 111 11 en dorestie ditheul es culminated in a scurati Wie and an elopemeat with Mary Godwin, to aster of Crown and Mary Wollstonecraft. His wife, ht, comstoide of drowning in the winter of 186, and hat y two כיד s event be legally marriei Ady. The charge of n by Harriet was taken from him early in 1817 'y a Lid C. anchor, Elion, on the grot nd that Shelley hold (theinions. He remained in England a year le, ger, and i 1818 went to reside in Italy. There he lived, going it to cm, bạt mainly at Pa and its neighborhood, until the sunwhen he was lost in a storm on July 3th, while sallin,, coast between Leghorn and Lerici; his body was cast up on sar's of Viareggio, and was there burned in the presence of Leigh Hant, and his friend Trelawny, on August 18th: the d in the Protestant cemetery at Rome. He had ty his second wife, of whom one only, Perov Florence, iveq 1 ta, uiterward inbunting the title and his father's share in fan t'y estate. W Lev's Pterary te begin with prose and verse at Eton, and he ready pa' lished before he went up to Oxford. Through all 1's rings, and amid his many personal difficulties, he was ind fat. y busy with his pen; and in his earlier days wrote much in prose. |