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The matinée given in my honor at Drury Lane by the theatrical profession was a wonderful sight. The two things about it which touched me most deeply were my reception by the crowd who were waiting to get into the gallery when I visited them at two in the morning, and the presence of Eleonora Duse, who came all the way from Florence just to honor me.
"Have I not said that she is too cold? What! would you see frost grow upon the toreador's mustache? And what a name, what a name! Eleonora da Toscana!" Courtlandt was not in the most amiable condition of mind, and a hint of the ribald would have instantly transformed a passive anger into a blind fury.
I have but one face, but I can make a great many. Hen. My best Eleonora, I shall soone returne: In the meane time be owner of this house, The possesour. Ele. I prithee call him backe. Buz. Hen. To me, sweetest? Ele. Henrico, doe you love me? Hen. By this faire hand. Ele. And will you leave me, too? Hen. Not for the wealth of Spaine. Ele.
Anthony we have a picture in Giorgione's early manner, and a later, but still early work, in the Flora . The two portraits, Eleonora Gonzaga and Francesco Maria della Rovere, Duke and Duchess of Urbino, were painted in Venice in 1536 or 1538, and came into the Uffizi with the other Urbino pictures, with the Venus of Urbino , for instance, where Titian has painted the Bella of the Pitti Palace naked on a couch, a little dog at her feet, and in her hand a chaplet of roses.
Eleonora Duse is more a comedian than an artist; she walks in paths that have been traced out by others; she does not imitate them, certainly not, for she plants flowers where there were trees, and trees where there were flowers; but she has never by her art made a single personage stand out identified by her name; she has not created a being or a vision which reminds one of herself.
I thought, too, that Frank would be gone out into the world, and I confess I did not expect to find that he had absolutely addressed her, and kept it secret. That is what my poor father feels so much. Eleonora is his special darling, and he says he could have overlooked anything but the concealment."
Poynsett, do pray believe, on my word, that Eleonora is a different creature!" "Is there no hope of averting it? I thought Camilla would poor Frank is such insignificant game!" "And when it does come, don't be set against her, please, dear Mrs. Poynsett. Be as kind to her as you were to me," whispered Jenny, nestling up, and hiding her face. "My dear, but I knew you! You were no such case."
His voice had grown weaker, and he breathed hard. Finally he continued: "I commanded my ward to break off her engagement, as I could not allow her to marry a man who was a freed convict. Siders sold his property some few weeks after that and moved to G . Eleonora acquiesced in my commands, but she was very unhappy and allowed me to see very little of her.
The Bishop of Vico Equense was one of this band of martyrs, for he suffered death under circumstances of exceptional brutality on the morning of August 20th 1799, in the piazza in front of the church of the Carmine, together with two Neapolitans of noble rank, Giuliano Colonna and Gennaro Serra, and with the poetess, Eleonora Pimentel, a Portuguese by birth but the widow of a Neapolitan officer.
'The next thing, she'll have them all baptized into the Orthodox Church! Yes, by Jove! She's so Slavonic in her sympathies, 'pon my soul, she is, though she is of German blood! Eleonora Karpovna, are you Slavonic? Eleonora Karpovna lost her temper. 'I'm a petty councillor's wife, that's what I am! And so I'm a Russian lady and all you may say....
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