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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 31 (search)
a matter of individuality alone, or of temporary fashion. What confirms this is the fact that still earlier women novelists wrote the novel of adventure, as their successors are again doing. There lies before me one of the vast folio romances of Mlle. Scuderi, published, like most of hers, under her brother's name, and translated into English by Henry Cogan in 1674. It is in four parts, each divided into five books, and each book as long as half the novels of these degenerate days. The moster, though doubtless somewhat surreptitiously in the Puritan households. The plot flows as languidly as a Dutch river, and is as much distributed and subdivided by artificial dams and placid inundations; yet it is a woman's book; and the plots of Mlle. Scuderi's stories were sufficiently exciting, at any rate, to cause the arrest and imprisonment of the lady and her brother, after they had discussed too heedlessly at an inn the question whether they should slay the Prince Mazare by poison or
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Ought women to learn the alphabet? (search)
e, done much to justify it. They have often used only for frivolous purposes even the poor opportunities allowed them. They have employed the alphabet, as Moliere said, chiefly in spelling the verb Amo. Their use of science has been like that of Mlle. de Launay, who computed the decline in her lover's affection by his abbreviation of their evening walk in the public square, preferring to cross it rather than take the circuit;--From which I inferred, she says, that his passion had diminished iEurope (so says Voltaire), sustained the dignity of the throne against Richelieu and Mazarin. And these queens most assuredly did not sacrifice their womanhood in the process; for her Britannic Majesty's wardrobe included four thousand gowns; and Mlle. de Montpensier declares, that when Christina had put on a wig of the latest fashion, she really looked extremely pretty. Les races se feminisent, said Buffon,--The world is growing more feminine. It is a compliment, whether the naturalist in
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Mademoiselle's campaigns. (search)
l de Rambouillet had united the two, and introduced the genre precieux, or stately style, which was superb in its origin, and dwindled to absurdity in the hands of Mlle. de Scudery, and her valets, before Moliere smiled it away forever. And now that the wars were done, literary society came up again. Madame de Sable exhausted ts, It is not hard to guess; it is Madame de la Valliere. Not at all, Madame! Mlle. de Retz? Not a bit; you are a mere provincial. How absurd! you say; it is Mlle. Colbert. Not that either. Then, of course, it is Mlle. de Crequi. Not right yet. Must I tell you then? Listen! he marries on Sunday, at the Louvre, by his MMlle. de Crequi. Not right yet. Must I tell you then? Listen! he marries on Sunday, at the Louvre, by his Majesty's permission, Mademoiselle,--Mademoiselle de,--Mademoiselle (will you guess again?), --he marries Mademoiselle,--La Grande Mademoiselle,--Mademoiselle, daughter of the late Monsieur,--Mademoiselle, granddaughter of Henri Quatre,--Mademoiselle d'eu,--Mademoiselle de Dombes,--Mademoiselle de Montpensier,--Mademoiselle d'orlea
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 15: (search)
s les creatures de Dieu sont faites pour une noble destinee, et vous n'avez pas le droit de nous regarder comme des êtres inferieurs. En voila assez la — dessus. Vos amis les Ultras sont toujours en colere, et nous detestent beaucoup. Il y a eu quantite de duels. Ce qui est horrible, les querelles politiques deviennent des querelles privees. Cela naegaye pas Paris. Le reste est toujours de meme, les salons comme vous les avez vu, beaucoup de vanite, peu d'affection. Victor, Auguste, Mlle. Randall, The Duke de Broglie, the Baron de Stael, and Miss Randall, who was a faithful friend of Madame de Stael, and her companion during the last years of her life. tout cela pense a vous. Vous nous avez tous gagne le coeur. Je ne sais pas si vous avez assez de vanite pour être content du succes general que vous avez eu ici. Au reste, vous avez plus d'orgueil que de vanite, comme nous avons dit. N'oubliez pas mes livres americains. Parlez moi un peu de laetat religieux de l'ecoss
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 23: (search)
st remained in the ballroom, and dancing began in good earnest. . . .. . The Regent danced constantly, and repeatedly gave great pleasure by taking for partners the young Countess Baudissin and little Countess Bose, who were presented at Court for the first time, and thus had a double zest added to their first ball. The old King, too, who has been a great dancer in his day, determined to have it said that he had danced after he was eighty years old, and actually went through a quadrille with Mlle. Watzdorff. By the great skill of his partner he was prevented from falling, but it was painful to see him. . . . The King disappeared soon after he had finished his dance, and at a little before ten o'clock the Regent led the way to supper, which was beautifully arranged in two large halls, on tables for ten persons each. Each of the princes and princesses had a table, to which, very early in the evening, such persons as they selected were invited. Immediately after our arrival, one of
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 24: (search)
Amelia. . .. . The Princess seemed to know a good deal about Shakespeare, and I was glad to have her say, very decidedly, that she could not imagine how anybody could think of making the character of Lady Macbeth interesting, by an expression of more human feeling and tenderness in the mode of representation; for it is quite the fashion in Germany now, to consider her a sort of abused person who is not half so bad as people have thought her, and it is even now said that Tieck is instructing Mlle. Bauer how to produce this impression upon the audience. When Macbeth was brought out Mr. Ticknor wrote: The story that Lady Macbeth was to be produced as quite an amiable person proved untrue. She was represented, indeed, as more affectionate to her husband, and less imperious to him, than I have been accustomed to see her, and I am not sure but it was right. February 8.—I dined to-day at Mr. Forbes's, with only Jordan, the Prussian Minister, and Baron von Herder. The latter is the
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 7: (search)
the Carlists. She is the daughter of the admirable Duchess de Duras, whom I used to know here, nineteen years ago; See Vol. I. p. 254 et seq. and she remembered me enough to signify her pleasure that I should come to see her. So I went, but she does not receive till half past 10 o'clock at night, and that is a little too ultra-fashionable for my comfort. I found there the Marquise de Podenas, who was the lady that managed so long the affairs of the Duchess de Berri; See ante, p. 41. Mlle. de Bethune, of the old Sully family; a fine, white-headed old Duke, of the time and with the manners and dress of the reign of Louis XVI.; Count Circourt; the Baron d'eckstein; Count Bastard, etc. The last person has been employed for twenty years—with the assistance of the successive governments that have prevailed in France —in collecting from manuscript miniatures the materials for a history of painting, from the fall of the art in the fourth century to its entire restoration under Ra
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 7: marriage: tour in Europe (search)
auty of his voice or the refinement of his intonation. I still feel a sort of intoxication when I recall his rendering of Coma é gentil. Grisi sang several times. She was then in what some one has termed, the insolence of her youth and beauty. Mlle. Persiani, also of the grand opera, gave an air by Gluck, which I myself had studied, Pago fui, Fui lieto un di Lord Lansdowne told me that this lady was the most obliging of artists. I afterwards heard her in Linda di Chamounix, which was then closing line:— And measure what we owe by what she gave. I saw Grisi in the great role of Semiramide, and with her Brambilla, a famous contralto, and Fornasari, a basso whom I had longed to hear in the operas given in New York. I also saw Mlle. Persiani in Linda di Chamounix and Lucia di Lammermoor. All of these occasions gave me unmitigated delight, but the crowning ecstasy of all I found in the ballet. Fanny Elssler and Cerito were both upon the stage. The former had lost a little
The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 28 (search)
ements. The old Orleans Theatre, in which opera reigned so long, went down last season before the glories of the new Opera House, and left its successful competitor the field. The Orleans had a good company; as evidence of the fact, Philippe, its tenor, is now first tenor at Boudourquies, the rival house; but the people would not go there, and the season "broke through" before its time. The company at the Opera House this season includes Mad. Berchart, Mad. Faure and Mad. Pretti, sopranos; Mlle. Lacombe, mezzo-soprano; Philippe, Methuen and Debrinay, tenors; Melchizedek and General, bassos. The Norma of last night was the best cast of that piece ever exhibited in New Orleans. In the theatres we have good companies.--At the Varieties, of which John Owen is manager, you may judge of the strength of the company by hearing that among the names are Chas. Bass, once of your theatre; George Jordan, of side-whisker memory; A. H. Davenport, and Mark Smith. Miss Charlotte Thompson is