Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-07-21
THE DOOMED BEAUTY.
- OR,
The Artists First Love:
BY MRS. EMMA 6 EMBuRY.
alt we're all ono

;slt were all ono
- ASH should love q bright particular star,
Aud seek to we'd it, tzE -!
sfsss.s our arguments are most cogent, nnd
YOU are an eloquent pleader. my dear
ssAnie; nevertheless, 4 am confirmed
bachelor y y:ss ass
80 - W edeed TO your art; married TO your
Tictures::l suppose you would say,s Cousin
aEred. Well, your painted beauties will
sinake but sorey companions for your old
age, and the Art which sou have found so
Jealous distress, will scarcely repay you
si0r the loss of a wife 5 tenderness. y #1s
$50. aus niisinke me, Annie; am sSedded
10 4fiiem0ry-a shadow more nnsubstan-5
slial ahanstie dream Of fame which once
cherished, and my heart has become the
shrine Of an image whose perfect ,oyeli-
hess far exceeds The fairesi yision of the
p,el or the painters fancy s'
ssEhen i ou have been really and truly
inlose, coz; for the honor Of the sex cans
NOT but rejoice Tint your insensibility TO fe-
male charms IS not The result Of stoieal in
difference. - Hss s&5as
How liitle you know Of my true ciiaf-
'ncter if you could suspect such a thing =
From my very boyhood my soul was i'm
bsed with q deep and passionate love for
the beautiful. The whole earth seemed to
be redoient Of loyellness; poetry, music,
Painting, were but varied expressions Of
this all perVading attribute. Iwas sis-
ionnry, D dreamer, and dihe rich coloring
which my imagination flung over every.
thing IN life, like the light falling through
d painted window. impaired its own sub.
Jimmy and beauty to that which would else
have seemed lame and .homely. Il loved
painting less as means OF fame, than us
/. aIpediln for the expression of my emo.
hons. Had my lips been touched with the
fireof genius could | have por-ed forth
the burning passion in the language of po-
esv, i should never have became an artist.
But my tongue was condemned 10 silence,
md 70. my hand was gwen the power OF
depicting. inthe speaking canvass, the Wis.
ions which thronged around my solitude.
An enthusiast in everything, possessed
the soul ofsa poet, but the. hand Of a PALMER,
and .doubly doomed in this world of disap>
pointment is he, Who, 10 the refined taste
and vivid fancy Of the one, uniles the pas
sionate ien1perameat and acu.e sensitive.
ness Of The other. S. q. :
with this deer. love for the beautiful
and the good. tsince virtue is but another
name for moral beauty, it would be
strange, indeed, il | had been insensible 10
The attractions Of woman. From the time
when, stood at my mothers knee, and
learned in her sweet looks the harmony
which exists between The gentle heart and
the placid brow, have been student of
ihe tshuW2n face divine.n unlike most per.
sons, who become faslidious from frequent
banquet Of beauty, | can find something IN
even The least attractive countenancce, as
The bee draws honey from the coarsest
Howerso - e. -
Show then does it happen, Fred, that
you are SO confirmed a bachelora Have
you beeu 50 general . lover that you have
lost the power Of indiyidualizing your af.
feclionss or have your eyes been SO blast.
ed with excess Of light that you are POW
quite blind to feminine beauty ~ -
81 have been wnnderer in many lands
Anne, and { have seen beauty in It's mos
glorious forms. The daughter Of Spain,
with that stately step and flashing glance
which gives 20 even The meanest Of, them
the semblance Of o princess Of romance
the high, browed dame, and the tender eyee
peasant girl Of ltalv-the fair haired CIR
nf northern Europe, whose dazzling com
plexions and cold manners remind one O