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BETTINA. 163
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genius got I fell a fever in that love of it with would despair this preserve . language Unconsciousl me , which from y I tormented doing pursued any me harm my so task b much y , unfit confiding that or I unu almost in su my al &
have expressions subverted , and persisted construction often . in Then my wrong I could way not when allthe my connection advisers would with my y my meaning , and would hot be disputed out of my wits , impassionated as I
was and never for my would traced- ield out turn till the , which last I sheet had rummaged which to- dictionary day will come and poetry in the press , and I am like y one to whom after a long , prison spring is bestowed in trees
my the intelli free air gence . Forsooth lay narrowl , I saw y grated in the up last in year the no dictionary roses , no of good blowing Johnson ; and the grammars that I took , and had also a very hard bed to no boot , led for
for I had unfortunatel version as y does in no an language animal for a its grammatical and learning suffers . them I strugg not to be touched my by an indiscreet hand , but licks them young clean , again .
_# # # * # * provoked " The supposition my desire as almost if it were to an impossible unmanageable that thi passion s book , could that be it translated should be
read finely . and their liked feeling by the out Eng of the lish primitive . And as elemen their t reviews of this love at least , and proved how un so - impaired , to undisturbed them that , and how relation much of * Goethe plainer than delicious to my hearty countrymen affection
to appeared the childfrom whose paternal ecstasy he explored a ' s sw _$ _ et nurture for his immortality . - , Then I plucked up a good heart , spite of all warnin reefer g to and go
trusting adrift on in the my floods good luck , mastless for this and book without of love a , sail I risked , like the a cast little -oii' sum gained , praised by the German attempt edition praised . * * and * loved * Ha me d B for yron the still book lived 's sake he woul for he d have was
my , , But of a now generous as I have mind no , propending friend yonder to and all uncommon no connection affec , tions I am -. * like a bird that flies from its nest over the ocean , or a plant to climate in a foreign
land must date till it is rivetted in the soil . Therefore I beseech Mr . Longman , who grants me the honor of publishing my book , to get this little preamble inserted in the ' Quarterly of Edinburgh lie views would , " have for informing done
that inclined if there to persevere are still other in their Englishmen deep mind who , and as B protect yron such youthfully , in are - spired feelingsI should like they scan the pages of my diary .
, _"Bettina . " "We consider that this' ingenuous attempt of Bettina ' s to become
known in England is above all criticism . We abstain from expressing any opinion upon a matter in which we only recognise one
of those elfish , freaks with which , she has ever been accustomed to startle and astound the reading public . It so happened that at the
time Bettina busied herself with the above-mentioned translation , a friend of hers , Frau Kinkel , who wished to study music in Berlin ,
went to reside with her . However the studious and regular habits of this lady soon compelled her to leave Bettina . Peace and rest
could not dwell with a Haushobold . In the midst of the night she would rush down to Frau Kinkel ' s room , to hear her opinion
about an English word which she had just found in Johnson and which seemed to convey her own idea .
The last few years she was busily engaged in preparing a new edition of her husband ' s works . Having offended against the
charter of the Berlin booksellers , she was prosecuted and fined .
_YCXL . III . _N 2
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_BETTINA . 163
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 163, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/19/
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