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The decent intreaties were forthcoming. Nance's mother, who evidently rejoiced in a prophetic spirit not given to all parents, strongly agreed with Farquhar's opinion that the young lady should try a theatrical career, and the upshot of the whole episode was that Captain Vanbrugh took an interest in the newly-found jewel. This was a high honour.
Difficulties sprang up when the Duchess began to lose, by her abuse of it, the power which she had always possessed over the Queen; when, too, it was seen that the architect's estimate bore no sort of relation to the actual cost. Vanbrugh was often in the greatest straits for money, and wrote piteously to the Duchess and the Lord Treasurer Godolphin without the slightest effect.
A man of iron will, indomitable daring, and passions strong, yet kept always leashed in his hand. Last and greatest, a man who, feeling within him the divine spirit, with his whole soul worships God!" Vanbrugh lifted off his velvet cap and reverently bared his head; then he continued: "This is what an artist should be, by nature. I have not spoken of what he has to make himself.
Poor Miss Vanbrugh was conscious of but one thing, that this scene was most unfit for a young girl; and that if she once could get Olive away, all future visits to the miserable woman should be paid by herself alone. "I will see you another day, Mrs. Manners, but we cannot really stay now. Come, my dear Miss Rothesay." And she and her|charge quitted the room.
Au reste, une scene de Vanbrugh ou une satire de Swift, feront mieux sentir ce que c'est, que toutes les definitions du monde.
Strengthened by her almost masculine power of mind, she learned to comprehend and to reverence the mighty masters whom Vanbrugh loved. He led her to those heights and depths which are rarely opened to a woman's ken. And she, following, applied herself to the most abstruse of Art-studies.
Vanbrugh is responsible for good and bad qualities alike. One would imagine a priori that he had everything in his favor unlimited money and a free hand. Far from this being the case, the stupendous work was accomplished under difficulties greater than any long-suffering architect ever had to contend with. The beginning of the building was most auspicious.
Often he had felt himself the shipwrecked sailor sinking in the waves, while Manisty as the cool spectator was hobnobbing with the wreckers on the shore. But nothing of this affected his love for the man. He loved him as Vanbrugh Neal had loved him; because of a certain charm, a certain indestructible youth and irresponsibility at the very heart of him, which redeemed half his errors.
This 'Haymarket Theatre', on the site of that known as 'Her Majesty's, was designed and opened by Vanbrugh in 1706, thirty persons of quality having subscribed a hundred pounds each towards the cost of it. He and Congreve were to write the plays, and Betterton was to take charge of their performance.
Her radiant shape upon its verge did shiver Aloft, her flowing hair like strings of flames did quiver. "There!" cried Vanbrugh, his countenance glowing with a fierce inspiration that made it grand through all its ugliness "there! what woman could paint that? or rather, what man! Alas! how feeble we are we, the boldest followers of an Art which is divine.
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