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G-EBMAN LITERATTJRE. 131
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awe into his trembling * attendants , and now full of kindly impulse , breaking- into smiles ( as he often did ) at the touch of the
tinyhand of his little son . Now we have him kicking the hat of Metternich in violent passion , now sleeping on the field of Bautzen
with the cannon-balls rolling around him ; now haranguing his troops in bombastic hrasenow visiting Josephine in a fit of
compunction , by stealth p ; and ; now agonized by the spasms of a guilty conscienceor a to the terrors of nihtmarewith only the
faithful Constan , t prey to be witness of his humili g ation , . Every phase of Muhlbaeh his Proteus ' s - Napoleon like nature is is not broug the ht unnatural into view monster . of Mdme . de
• not Stael debase —not " a such Mep as histop Landor heles has " abominating represented him all ; which and not he Alison could ' s
a perfection deluded , enthusiast of intellect —a devoid believer of , moral like princi Mahomet ple . " , in He the is reality rather
of certainl his y own have mission said ( jud ; whom ging from if old his Horace speech had and seen gesture he ) , would " Ant
. insanit The , other aut versus dramatis facit . " are well sketched in . Josephine is persona
; _. Maria a suffering Louisa angel is an , won amiable to a nonentit kind of y . luxurious The infantine self-renunci simplicit ation y of ;
the icture little worth king of of the Rome pencil ( with of flaxen Sant ) affords locks and a pleasing dimpled contrast face— to a
7 p the darker ch y aracters around him . In the background we have Scharnhorst and Steinwith characteristic delineations of Berthier ,
Murat , Ney , and Macdonald , . Some of these sketches abundantly prove racter— how imbuing the influence his generals of Nap with oleon his own could peculiarities alter the , French and keep cha ing
them % There under is a his pleasing powerful account fascination of the . veteran Bliicher , glowing with
¦ the fire of youth in spite of his seventy winters , _undaimted by speeches disappointment description and of indi his , and gnant wife boldl who remonstrance y confronting is as terrified . Very royalt at the natural y zeal itself of also with her is aged rash the
partner as ever was hen , at the mania of ducks for the water . "We pity her consternation when she finds him beating the air in
Impotent chastisement fury , on under the person the false of impression the tyrant that , and he we is inflicting sympathise ht condi of with her gn
_Jmsband lier pathetic in battle entreaties , nor to allow a soldier him to never fight to in lose person sig amount . These of sketches of Bliicher bear internal evidence of some
different less truth , resolution and is are the interesting in sketch overcoming of as Frederic illustrations the William weakness of the III of . power prostr matter ated of . daunt V with ery
grief by the loss of his beautiful Queen , and , enfeebled rather which than morall marred y streng an otherwise thened by fine his ch trial aracter . The is skilfull painful y portrayed vacillation .
The last notice we have of the King is after the Allies had entered
G-Ebman Literattjre. 131
G-EBMAN LITERATTJRE . 131
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/59/
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