The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-14

forwards hauled HIM over the Goals proper |
y and without mercy
A nobleman having called on Holbein
while he was engaged in drawing figure
from life, was told that he could not see
him, but must call another day. Foolishly
taking this answer as an afiront he very
rudely rushed up stains to the painters stu
do. Hearing noise, Holbein opened his
door, and feeling enraged at his lordships
assumption and intrusion, he pushed him
backwards from the top Of the stairs TO the
bottom. However, rejecting Immediately
on what lie had done, he repaired to the
king. The nobleman, who pretended 10
be very much hurt, was there soon after
him, and having stated his complaint, would
be satisfied with nothing less than the artists
life; upon which the king firmly replied
My lord, you have not now 10 do with
Holbein, but with me; whatever punishment
you may contrive by way Of revenge against
him, shall assuredly be inflicted upon your
self. Remember, pray, my lord, that can,
whenever | please, make seven lords oil
seven ploughmen, but cannot make one
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Edgar Quinet, the young German poet,
repaired one day to Tie Chateau des Tuiler.
les to visit one Of the queens maids Of hon.
or, and was on this occasion more than usu-
ally melancholy. Suddenly, while be was
conversing with her, young person enter
ed, so fair, So naturally elegant, that our
poet would Immediately have recognised
her, had he not been so absorbed in
his grief that he could see nothing. How
ever, the newcomer took pity on his suffer
ings, and with much elegance and feeling
began 10 talk to him of his new poem
'Prometheus;' telling him that il was an ex.
cellent work, perhaps the best he had ever
written; and she even knew by heart sever
al Of the rustic verses, extemporised as
bards extemporised before the mead. I'm
agine the delight Of the poet at hearing her
thus speak! Seeing that it pleased him,
she poured the healing balm, drop by drop,
upon his wounded heart: She gradually
and carefully proceeded from the poem in
verse to the poem in prose; she passed from
'Prometheus' to the touching story Of 'Ahas-
uerus,' that masterpiece of poetical legends.
Follow me, said she to Quinet, 'and you
will see whether | love this poem The
two ladies Immediately arose and conducted
him to a Gothic studio, filled with drawings
and sketches. What was the Joy of the
poet when four admirable basreliefs, taken
from his poem, were pointed out to him.
Yes, bis heroes themselves, in the very atti
; tude, and exhibiting the very passions which
. his poetry had given them 1t would be quit,
i impossible to describe his feelings when tn,
> fair young artist said to him, in her swee
= voice, This is your work, take it witt
! YOU and when he read at the bottom o
these exquisite bas.reliels the royal name
: Marie dOrleans. We have heard Of
: great prince who held the ladder for Alber
. Durer; of a powerful monarch who picket
. up the pencils of Titan; we know that tn
sister Of king OF France kissed the lips o
> Alain Charter while he slept but this grea
surprise given to poet--this unhOped-fo
!, and consoiatory gift-the infinite grace O
r the young girl, the princess, the great ar
: tist-cannot be too much admired.
= The Duchess of Orleans having ordere,
ia medal Of her husband to be cast, sent
letter to Jasmin, the barber poet, informing
!, him that, as mark of honor, he should re
ceive the first that was struck, adding also
!, the agreeable news Of the king having grant
!; ed him a pension of thousand francs
Pope Alexander VIII. was so much pleasec
with some of Jacob Balde's poetry, as t,
. send him gold medal-s very corsiders
: bic mark Of regard from one who was him
: self good Latin poet.
Nj. dAbbadie, writing of the Abyssini
!, ans, says that the Gojam scholars well re
I, member the single verse spoken in Axun
by mendicant, and which so much delight
: ed native prince, that he stuffed the ragged
poets mouth with gold dust, and seated hin
on his throne.
The best poet that Sweden ever producet
: was Esaias Tegner, bishop of Wexio. Il
. his first poem, entitled 'Axel, recountin,
: the adventures Of one Of Charles XII. s. pa
: ges, who were sworn to remain single, b,
has created great interest by plunging hi
I hero in love, and painting the conflict be
r tween his passion and his reverence for hi
, oath Of celibacy. A German literary gen
. tleman was so delighted with the version o
it in his own language, that he actually stud
= led Swedish for the sole purpose Of readin,
the original. A compliment like this ha
rarely been paid, as the poem does not con
tain more than about thousand lines.
!. Reverence for genius is displayed no
merely by the high and educated classes
/. but this feeling prevails amongst even TIT
: poor and untaught, and sometimes forms
|, redeeming virtue among the cruel and aban
d doned. The wife of Silesian peasant be
ing obliged to 60 on foot to Saxony, ant
4 hearing that she had travelled more thai
: half the distance TO Goethe's residence
5 whose works she had read with the livelies
|; interest, continued her journey TO Vienna
\ for the sake Of seeing him. Goethe gave he
: his portrait, and declared that the true char
acter Of his works had never been better IN
!. derstood than by this poor woman. At tn
!. close Of the coronation OF George w., 81
e Walter Scott received a mark OF homage 3,
J. his genius which delighted him. MISSING
h his carriage, he had to return home on foo
a from Westminster after the banquet-tha
II is to say, between two and three o'clock il
s the moming--when he and young frien,
found themselves locked in the crowd some
n where near Whitehall. A space for tn,
/ :.