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228 CABOUNE PICHLER.
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¦» The Suburban Solitude Of The Pichlers...
house being near a hospital , it was found convenient to quarter the convalescents upon themin order to ensure their being
better nursed , so that for two , years a continual succession of invalids was committed to their chargenot more than one or two
, of the whole number being sufficiently agreeable to prove a pleasant addition to their private circleor to be invited to join in their
, frequent home concerts . Another note of discord too was beginning to mar the harmony of these meetings , for Streckfuss , a proficient
vocalist , and the lady who ordinarily played his accompaniments for him , and who was the wife of an old friend , had grown too dear
to each other , the poet , therefore , though much attached to Vienna and its societyamong whom he was universally loved and esteemed
and where his , talents promised to open to him an honourable career , , resolved to make a sacrifice to right , and break away at all
hazardsfrom a position so perilous . The day and hour were fixed , they all met once more as usual , when , as the clock struck , the impassioned
but noble-minded young man rose from his accustomed seat _,, embraced them all , then uttering a single " farewell" rushed away
and it was years before any of them ever saw him again , . _,, Herr Pichler ' s appointment as a sort of " Commissioner of
Woodsand Forests " necessitating a journey to the mountains of Styria , in order to survey the growing timber there , with a view to regulate
the supply and transport of fuel to the capital , his family accompanied him . The history of a Roman martyr , narrated to her at
the spot where he was buried , determined Madame P . to make this legend of her fatherland the foundation of a work she had
projected while reading Gibbon to her brother in his last illness . The _^ contrast between Christianity and Polytheismand the unfair
, estimate formed of the latter by the great historian , roused a wish to attempt a portrayal , in truer colours , of the age when they were _,
in conflict , a design admirably carried out in this her most famouswork , named " Agathocles : " a book which * has been
translatedinto the French , Italian , and Danish languages , and which received _, the highest commendation from Goethea tribute all the more
, valuable inasmuch as he admitted that the principles she had made to _triumph , were quite at variance with his own , and all his
sympathies were enlisted on the other side . Her name beginning now to be well known , applications were
made to her by various booksellers to contribute to journals and . almanacs , ( the _" annuals" of that day ) and through them
she-, became acquainted , either personally or by letter , with many other literary characters , entering in particular into a correspondence
with Madame Huber , which only ceased with that lady's death _,, though the correspondents never met ; indeed , the friendly relations
which in the course of her life she _established with so many members of the world of letterswere never in a single instance
, interrupted by any personal disagreement , a circumstance due in
great measure to her constant refusal to write criticisms or reviews ,
228 Caboune Pichler.
228 CABOUNE PICHLER .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1862, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121862/page/10/
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