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sayipg th&tv * dhe \ Ihad not slept tl $ eeitiigl # s for / thinking of : him . Itis ^ a , sy ) to i see the / footing ; on wjiiqhi ; QtQ@ £ ke mould afterwards maintain a . correspondence with a nature ot tins kind & to say ijothing of . the reasons arising frcjm dirferenpe of years . lie haa ? led a true poet ' s life , full of
sensation , and thought , and mixed delight and sunering ; ajid by this time was longing for "repose : he could not bear what are called scenes : " —and the consequence was , that the title of , the work before us is hardly ingenuous ; for it is not * Goethe ' s Correspondence with
a Child , m anything like the proportion ot the guilds correspondence with Goetlie . His letters are very few , brief , and ( Jiiiet - y though they exhibit a strong sense of the extraordinary prowess of his little fairy mistress , who resembles the Mignon of fcs / Wilheim Meister , and overflows with passion and
imagiri ^ tion ^ which she pours forth on \ all sorts of subjects , music and politics mqluded ; on the former ' of which she mounts into the loftiest metaphysical sufetleties , wliich touch at tlie very utmost heaven , not indeed of / 'the : kudwable ^ but of the gritito&lel The book , besides tlie interest -of li ^ r own burnitl g and extraorilm&ry self ( who in
Catholic tinted might h ^ tve been anjQ&ei ? >^ a | nt « Tiesresa )^ contains higWy enter , t $ iniag ; notices < of Q ^ etWs hiQtlwi >( : w ho t was attaqb ?>( jL ^ tM heii ) l iarwi of i Wieland ,, J ^ J&avien :, ! tmd jbtl ^ aya 9 Mnd nofct w $ th ^ n 4 iftg the l sto'tling vehe ? iQ ^ e ^ . tbel ^ dy ^ iteili ^ ramexiit ^ it ^ faiiifopwtibl& ^ ntlit jto po ^ i (| oive a ' liking iflpjTrMr , » he is iso candid aiiw 4 | j * Selpqlu ^^ t , bnd * f 4 tiflllhw \ profesision of seeing nothing in
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the world but Goethe , takes sufeh delight in every tiling - eke that ii great or loveable . Her father was an Italian Generalm © -P the name of Brentano , probably of German connexions , certainly of French ; and though she evidently prides herself on her youthfal passion , she appears to have since married , as she writes her pre
"sent name Arnheim . " The volumes are said to have had a great sale in Germany . A doubt has been expressed of their authenticity ; and it is difficult , from various circumstances , not to fancy occasionally that they have been re-touched at a later age ; but , for our part , we confess
that our faith m the rare powers of nature are almost unbounded ^ especially if called forth by love ; and we know of instances of eloquent passion in young female Italians , that would diminish the qoldest unbelief in the e ^ trja * ordinary faculties of Bettiraa Brentano . Besides , thirteen in Italy would be eighteen or twenty in England . * t ^ ; ¦
¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ " / I . J >; ¦ . ' ¦ . The Love-Chase . A Goiftedy , M Five Acts . By Janife SHeridan Knowles . Moxoni " My son Cartwright wtrjtes » all like amp , " said Ben Jfeiir son ; and he would ; hdtfef ! said so of Sheri ^ in KnowlesIM
It is cLelightful to see how this .. manly vein : of feelings at , once robust and tenden , perfvfJd ^ Si © vojpy (• production of this he 4 rtyu \ p@Gtj < in i ^ pite too pf , aj oertaiw wixiture i of the obsolete ; ^ id artificial , j > in , style , acquired iin ( tl ^ rhQtomte&l school of Jwp ( ixoellent ^ farttfery ^ the author iQt- the »• : * Diotipnfyry /' Einttwleft ; i » . „' $ , v&iiwt , * # *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/68/
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