Volume 2

France in 1829-30 / By Lady Morgan.

  • Sydney, Lady Morgan
Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: France in 1829-30 / By Lady Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    profound observer and energetic representer of all the terrible workings of passion in real, living humanity. Perhaps the most masterly effort of art ever exhibited on the stage is his represen- tation of an aged man, in the last stage of de- crepitude and oblivion, and roused to a mo- mentary energy of feeling, by the workings of the master passion of a long life. It is in the last act of that curious and popular trilogy which depicts the stages of the revolution, and which is founded on the ‘‘ Avant— Pendant et Apres” of the soirées de Neuilly. The gesti- culation and deportment are not merely those of physical debility—they betray, in every movement, the faded energy of the directing mind; and then, the sudden and transient illumination, the momentary return of intellect, when some latent chord of feeling, some long- rooted association recalls the memory, and the interests, of those for whom he had once acted and felt with such intensity. To say that it was nature is not enough—it was the result of
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