Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-25
"REMINISCENCES OF EUROPE.
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GLoRyINA.

GLORvINA.
"why your Lady ships France long since announc-
ed about to issue from the press, still withheld from
the eagerly expecant worldf"
literary friend in Paris had given letter Of in
PRODUCTION to Lady MORGAN and called to present II
after had been day two in Dublin, and took my
in her boudor after the usual preliminares of
| tesy, with some such remark as the above.
The right key touched and the vanity, pro-
perly the pride, Of authorship responded Beauty
there to reward with her smile there the
graceful attempt conceal the pleasurabe emotion my
compliment occasoned The lips hastened to convey the
satisfaction the eyes had already indicated and the
grew bright with intellectual animation,
pressve and as engaging as the blush which welltimed
attery brings to the cheek of conscious loneliness Them
too il was well deserved, and the party whom it was
conferred had to believe sincere. was young
of age when poetry and romance not now
ters of light and those days in which
productions Of merit in either of these departments
Like angel visits, few and far between; -
days long since gone by, when authors were and
wondered at and the announcement Of new novel or
poem held expectation on tptoe; when the dit Of her
ladyship,
'sBut one Sydney Owenson and one Tommy Moore,n
had it proceeded from other lips than her own would
have met response and approval from numerous and
intelligent class Of readers who reveled in her romance
while they affected to ridicule it.
"Ah! Mr.. b." was her ladyship'S animated reply,
"the world indeed but then you Americans kind
50 apt at agreeable compliment They tell too, she
added, that my works appear almost in your
country as in our own, and are read'-
With at least equal delight, my lady,, FASTENED to
interpolate.
Ny fortune was made in this quarter and an invita-
ton to small party at Lady Ms for that evening
the commencement Of practical acknowledgment of word
spoken in
The party not numerous it what the fash
ionabe world would consider brilliant Lady Morgan's
establishment small and its appointments on mode
rate scale She owed little birth fortune and her
title, derived from her husband, Sir Charles Morgan,
brought with it neither distinction emolument 1t
was compliment bestowed on him by the Marquis of
Abercorn in whose family he had been engaged tutor
while his lordshp Vceroy Of Ireland and who had
dubbed him knight Of ST. Patrick when they separated
But the evening passed off delightfully."- Among the
guests were rising stars, just beginning to shed
their lustre the hemisphere Of talent Phips-who
had become conspicuous for exuberance in Irish rhetoric
adding another hue the rainbow" whose eulogy on
Washington, tribute to Napoleon and other productions
of this stamp had many admirers among the lovers of
ornate elocuton, though they have long since been
signed to the rostrum Of the schooboywas present. but
evidently declining from his zenith attained to
make room for Mr. North, pointed out to his
perior in genius and promise Both, however, were
charming men, and only endeavored this occasion to
rival each other in promoting the pleasures of the
ing, to which other luminares of lesser magnitude
tributed their brilliancy
But our hostess and her sister, Lady Clarke whose
husband Sr Arthur also owed his title the vicerega
accoade, the dvinites Of this social temple; and
despite little conceits at which the prcceur might
have smiled the stately demurred evidently
garded by their worshppers with pride and affections
and the outsider myself willingly united in admiration
Of exertions in which talent, wit and anmaon though
mixed with innocent eccentricy could fail Of
tanment.
Lady Morgan was not tall, and might have been pretty
but for little much Of health in figure and complex
ion and in Of her dark eyes, which had Its
usual effect of imparing the expression Of boh though
without this bemsh, they would have been lively and
agreeable. She fitted from guest to guest distributing
amusing trdes where graver subjects would have been
out Of places while her sister, blonde, in whom the ge
MUS Of merriment prevailed sparkling from her laugh
loving and radians never sufficiently
in repose to admit of description, presided at the piano.
regalng with music and songs of Irish character and
humor, as il intent
TO send the soul upon jig to heaven"
There was about Lady NJ, as she then appeared
of the personal characteristics Of Gorvn and few of the
moral Had she drawn from self in any Of the portraits
Of her heroines that of the Dachess Of Belmont in her
novel Of ODonnel would have been like the org
NAL truthful in resemblance than the "Wld Irish
Girl" which Lady Clarke might have looked but
full Of eoGmt to have personated; for be it remem
bered the wild in that instance applied rather the
dton and circumstances than to the disposition and de-
pertinent Of the heroine. There nothing Of the
cuse about Lady NJ nothing rering nothing Of such
tmdity secluson from the world is apt to
impose the neophyte unaccustomed to its forms Un
peu op aniee she has been accused Of aecation and
without reason but then should distinguish be-
tween that which is occasional and venia in genius and
its and ntolerable display in volity There
women in whom there is just enough Of 1t to be
charming but It is something than the fmsy art-
fee Of miss in her teens Of the Lydia Languish Of
the season. in both Of whom its display is rather corpo
real than sentimental The heart the mind and the
sblties frequently engaged in the playful coquey,
and the loves and graces take part in the delicate nesse
with which accomplished beauty spreads her tolls Lam
guor without inanity, emotion without effort fancful
illusions agreeable conceits and womans pure imagn
ings are in this alliance and envy him who could
be insepsble its influence quarrel with its lovely in
consistencies They offend virtue and violate rule
but such as art has invented restraint nature;
prudery contrived to
sMar the charms it cannot hide"
Such were not precisely the tgamens Of sentiment and
manner In Lady Morgan, for hers had become rather