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MADAME BE STAEI/. 369
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learnt to surrender her poetry , for which she had never much taste . During Songs would the have incarnation "been a mockery of materialism when men and needed _xohilosop clear hy _sjDeech which .
characterized the Revolution , poetry , as a rhythmic art , had almost brow bolized entire . ly But " disappeared by a wh warrior y a warrior . ' s " eye Oratory ' s eye flashing , rather " said from than Mr . under a Hare poet , a ' s _" ? p may hilosop Because Ibe her sym in 's
oratory the ivill must predominate . " Madame de Stael's power of speech of passion consisted and will in this Of earnest that love vehemence for landscape of language scenery —this which _Linison
con-. stitutes one of the main features of poetry , she was as destitute as DrJohnson" Give me the Rue de Bac" she would say , when
her . friends were . enraptured at the beauty , of Geneva . " I would rather live in Paris in a fourth story ! " Another distinguishing ina
feature of her mind was the absence of that mystery of imagtion which forms the essence of German thought . " Every
consummate work of art , " said Goethe , _" leaves something for the intellect to divine . " But Madame de Stael wished for something of
which she could fathom and see through at once . Hence much the talk of her German friends during long years of exile was as baffled her
understanding an unknown tongue 1 . But to life it her was which . her She intense caused liked nothing sympath her in y which matured with her fellow to - surrender men and her every romance -day s after iving poetry . During the age latter
gup herself years of from her life other she subjects studied by nothing saying , but that politics " politics , and comprehended would excuse
moralit The authoress y , religion , of and " Aurora literature Lei . " h" us a true definition of ggave
the impulsive French character when she wrote , " they turn
Som And wear central out p b ivot y the of force their of tho holding ught and fast choic . upon " e ,
Extreme circumstances with such persons will produce that tension of all the facilities which we call genius ; but when there is nothing
without to call forth this enthusiasm , the genius itself remains in abeyancehiddenby a common-lace exterior .
, or , p Madam " Le peup e de le Stael " says felt Lamartine this binstinct " n ' estpas when in erudit after . II years est _patJieti she bent _qtie all . " ¦ y
command of her her strength wit , not to to refle solve musical ct the the psalmod problems spirit of y , her around was age possible her . , " and Intelli in used this gible the storm word trivi sallies of al of
mann battle Stael er : descended , the till its age convulsive was from incap her agonies abl ni e hts of were being of over poetry sung . " , and Hence to , in after Madame any writing de g
Delhine" and " Corinne" set herself in a more subdued way to " p , justified give the in world her her choice reflections . " Pour of _dtre practical admire wisdom il fmit , monter and she ; pour was 7
_dtre utile il Juut descendreJ
Madame Be Staei/. 369
MADAME BE STAEI / . 369
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/9/
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