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But he seems to have aroused a passion in the heart of a poetess, who expressed her feelings in words which contrast strongly with Raimbaut's vapid sentimentalities. This was Beatrice, Countess of Die and the wife of Count William of Poitiers. The names, at least, of seventeen poetesses are known to us and of these the Countess of Die is the most famous.
B. Robert Boyle's Martyrdom of Theodora, 1687, is thus described by Dr. Johnson. Boswell's Johnson, Oxford ed., I, 208. To be continued every Monday and Friday. No. 1-36, 21 February to 22 June, 1724. Ximene fearing to be forsaken by Palemon, desires he would kill her. Quoted by Dyce, Specimens of British Poetesses, 1827, p. 186. See ante, p. 24. Monthly Review, XLVI, 463. April, 1772.
'Now you must take someone down to get something to eat, she apprised him, when he had growled out soft nothings to poetesses, paragraphists, publicists, positivists, penny-a-liners, and other pale persons. 'Whom shall it be? Ashton! What have you done?
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