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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    and passion of a declaration of love,* dulled and checked those brilliant aspirations, which would have rendered him the founder of a new school of acting, and coupled his name inse- parably with a new epoch in literature. Such as he was, he stood at the head of his pro- fession in his own country, a superiority, which no temporary caprice in public taste, no attack of private envy or party malice, could invalidate. To have known him was a privilege; and to have lost him, ere time * “ Votre sublime talent a fait naitre dans mon ame, Pemotion la plus vraie; et maintenant que je ne suis plus sous le charme de vos accens, je me justifie tout a fait a moi méme, Vattachement sérieux que j’aurai toute ma vie pour vous. N7’allez pas trouver que je vous loue trop. C’est ma maniére de vous dire que je vois aime. Comment louer méme ’Empereur, si Pon n’étoit pas inspiré par un sentiment? Je pense a vos accens dans Hamlet, a4 ce regard qui créait a4 lui seul une apparition merveilleuse, et je m/’afflige du sort qui me separe de vous. J’étois née pour yous admirer, plus que personne.”
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