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Updated: May 11, 2025
It was more than the conversation of a versifying lover which made Ibsen speak of Miss Thoresen's "blossoming child-soul" as the bourne of his ambitions. In his dark way, he was already violently in love with her. The household of her father, Hans Conrad Thoresen, was the most cultivated in Bergen.
Thus during my association with Magdalene Thoresen I came to regard myself in a new light, when I saw myself with her eyes, and I was struck more than ever by how different the verdicts over me would be were my various friends and acquaintances each to describe me is I appeared to them. To Magdalene Thoresen I was all mind, to others all passion, to others again all will.
When we began to speak of mutual acquaintances, amongst others, Magdalene Thoresen, feeling very uncomfortable in the presence of the lady, I blurted out most tactlessly that I was sure that lady was much interested in me. It was a mere nothing, but at the moment sounded like conceit and boasting.
He himself, the rector of Holy Cross, was a bookish, meditative man of no particular initiative, but he had married, as his third wife, Anna Maria Kragh, a Dane by birth, and for a long time, with the possible exception of Camilla Collett, Wergeland's sister, the most active woman of letters in Norway. Mrs. Thoresen was the step-mother of Susannah, the only child of her husband's second marriage.
Our freedom should be loved by us above everything. Now I will close for this time, for I have written a very long letter. The school-master will read it, I suppose, and when he answers for you, get him to tell me some news about one thing or another, for he never does so of himself. But now accept hearty greetings from your affectionate son, O. THORESEN.
Still, it was rather trying that, when my verdict on her work did not happen to be what she wished, she saw in what I said an unkindness, for which she alleged reasons that had nothing whatever to do with Art. Magdalene Thoresen could not be otherwise than fond of Rasmus Nielsen; they were both lively, easily enraptured souls, who breathed most freely in the fog.
He upheld poetry that was actual and palpable, consequently had little appreciation for poetry, that, like Paludan-Mueller's, was the perfection of thought and form, and boldly disapproved of my admiration for it. It was likewise through Frederik Nutzhorn that I, when a young beginner in the difficult art of life, became acquainted with Madame Magdalene Thoresen.
It was always a sort of game between us at Sunday dinner, in which they tried to prove that my attention had strayed, and that I might much better have stayed at home, and thus have escaped the bondage of dogma and of dressing up. I remembered the text, and then I told them about Olaf Thoresen. Nancy lifted her eyebrows. "The pills man? Or was it pork?" "It was probably neither.
Julius Lange A New Master Inadaption to the Law The University Prize Competition An Interview with the Judges Meeting of Scandinavian Students The Paludan-Muellers Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson Magdalene Thoresen The Gold Medal The Death of King Frederik VII The Political Situation My Master of Arts Examination War Admissus cum laude praecipua Academical Attention Lecturing Music Nature A Walking Tour In Print Philosophical Life in Denmark Death of Ludwig David Stockholm.
Two other celebrated personages whom I met for the first time a little later were Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson and Magdalene Thoresen. I became acquainted with Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson at the Nutzhorns, their son, Ditlev, being a passionate admirer of his.
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