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158 CAEOLINE PICHLER.
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Caroline thinkers , and saw sonie and heard even who much were that was materialists in contrast and to her atheists early .
now ideas ceremonies , for she of had the been church broug and ht up these to a were relig now ious ob become servance the of subject all the
of continual ridiculewhile , patriotism , loyalty , and even religion in its so that purest the asp young ect , were , girl too ' s mind often treated became as filled mere with ancient doubts prejudices , while ,
however her devotional had not feelings ceased to were watch proportionall over her y , and cooled now . Hasehka , though ,
her rather hands perhaps , the works from of aesthetic Milton than Gellert from and pious other motives eminent , put sacred into
, , to poets attain , throug lofty h ideas the perusal of God of and which a veneration she was for enabled things once spiritual more .
deadened Anxious that she her committed religious to sensibilities some should of not Gellert again 's h become ymns , memory
repeating and formed , to a herself habit som of e putting of these her verses conscience several to times the test in the by course of an evening when full of life and accustomed spirits in the herself midst to
meditate of some ball on death or gay till entertainment the idea gave . She her no uneasiness ; and choosing Ithuriel , as described by in Milton order , as to her determine guardian whether angel ,
this sometimes examined spiritual herself obtaining patron every had the ni reason gratification ght to be of pleased his appearing with her or to not her ,
in her dreamsin mortal form , with light brown locks crowned with rosesbut , in more than mortal size and beauty .
The first , time she stooped to mortal love , the object of her passion other was an than English renowned hero who had General died Wolfe ten years . H before aving her in her birth dail , no y
our celebrated walks to pass engraving a print of -shop the , death in the of window that warri of or which , the lofty hung mien the
an and impression noble expression on her fancy with , that which to stand he was and represented gaze upon this made raised picture such
monument became the ( gre moun atest d enj of oyment earth of surmounted her life , and by having a cross ) to her a
retire visionary thither lover a as in often a secluded as possible corner to of " the nurse garden her , flame she would " in
solitude . But the time was at hand when these ideal passions were to be had been
rep former laced by lay a fellow more real but one had . been A certain absent Herr some H years who travelling * ,
a p , sionable on his return irl paid then a about visit at fifteen the house was so of struck his old on friend his ; entering the impres the
roomwith g his , handsome presence , and fine blue eyes , that she let fall her , embroidery needle . Of course he improved the occasion
her the by coming impression in return to , hel or he p considering had her in made searching , that and being the for onl it , either y and daug probabl reall hter y of attracted perceiving the Aulic by
158 Caeoline Pichler.
158 CAEOLINE PICHLER .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/14/
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