FAMOUS YOUNG MEN | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 11, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 6.

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FAMOUS YOUNG MEN.

LANDSEER began his study of dogs at six.

Handel had produced an opera before he was fifteen.

Il Perugino had finished an altar painting at fourteen.

Auber wrote an operette for the stage before fourteen.

Claude Lorraine began landscape painting at twelve.

Corneille had planned a tragedy before he was ten.

Moliere finished a comedy, one of his best, at seventeen.

Rembrandt had finished a portrait before he was twelve.

Lessing is said to have begun “Sarah Sampson” at eighteen, and to have finished it before twenty.

Shelley produced all his wonderful works of imagination before the age of thirty, at which he died.

Goethe had produced a considerable number of poems and several dramas before he was twenty.

Wagner planned a series of German operas by the time he was twenty-three, altho his design was not carried out for many years.

Cæsar was not twenty before he became prominent in Roman politics, and was the leading spirit in Roman affairs before thirty.

Burke was twenty-six when the “Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful” was published. It is said that he began it between twenty and twenty-one.—Selected.