The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-05-12

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lheart aickens lie recisal, and would 5.
difficult indeed, o decide On which Of the fws
shs greater share Of censure ought to fall.--
Her own statement was this--tliat at some III
chosen time, when she least expected Whal
romancers call sdeclaration,1 he made sucf
passionate love to her, % ii spite other utmost
endeavors to beangry and look grave, provok-
ed an immodera E at Of laughter from which
momenthe bacame her implacable enemy
Oh, oh / II she had been till that moment ig-
norant Of the change II his sentiments to-
wards her, her emotion would certainly not
have been one Of cold hearted leyity and il
she did understand the state Of bis feelings, Of
which We have little doubt, far less tact than
that posses sed By her clever ladyship would
have enabled herto put al end forever to his
presumption before the possibility Of decIar-
alton,
From this time the bitterest enmity existed
between these gifted persons. Pope was un-
manly in his abuse of the woman he had loved,
and who scorhed him, and she unwomanlyin her
ridicule ofthe man who was writhing under
her scathing sarcasm. We pass over this pc.
Rod of her life hastily, with regret that she
should have forgotten so utterly what was dae
to herself and her husband, as to have provok-
ed this quarrel with the poor mis-shapen poet;
for that she did provoke it no one who reads her
letters to Pope can doubt. Leigh Eunt in his
notice of the rupture between Fope and Lady
Mary, in his own humane way says;
"a pause comes upon the spirit and the
tongue at hearing such an explanation as this
ia pause in which no one Of any Imagination
can help having deep sense the blackness
of the modification with which the poor, mis-
shaped, applauded poet must have felt his lus-
tire smitten, and his future recoHections degra-
ded. To say that he had any right to make
love to her is one thing; yet to believe that her
manners and cast of character, as well as the
nature of the times and OF the circles in which
she moved, had given no license, no encour-
agement, no pardoning hope to the presump-
ton, is impossible, and to trample in this way
upon the whole miserable body OF his vanity
ana humility, upon all which the consciousness
ofacceptabillity and glory among his fellow
creatures had given tosustain him SELF
and all which is so poor, and dwarf
ID, and degrading shape required SO
much to be sustained-assuredly it was in
was inhuman. At all events
It would have been inexcusable, had any,
hing in poor human nature been inexcusa.
Die, and had thousand things not encour
lged the fattercd beauty to resent hope
10 presumtuous from one so unlike herself.
But if she was astonished, as she professed
o be. at his thus trespassing beyond bar
les which she had continually suffered to
,e approached, she might have been more
humane in her establishment. A little pity
night at least have divided the moment
With contempt 1t was not necessary to be
quite so cruel with one so insignificant. She
lad address; could she not have had re-
ource to little Of it under circumstances
rhich would have done it such special hon
r? She had every advantage on her side;
ould not even this induce her to put lit
e more heart and consideration into her
epulse? Oh, Lady Mary! A dukes
aughter vert thou, and beauty, and a
it, and very triumphant and Battered
ersonage. and covered with glory as with
tie string and diamonds, and yet false meas
re didst thou take of thy superiority, and
dist not see how small thou becamestin the
when thou didst thus trample un-
II foot the poor little INN Ortag!" Ii
ut.
Poets themselves must fall like those they
sing, :
i'd the little immortal never enjoyed gay
ciety afterwards. He improved his villa :
Twickenham, beautifed the grounds, and
rote himself pI,ce among the gods, I
1t the beautiful had vanished from his 7
is way, and returned not.
We must hasten the closing scene. The n
It twenty-five years Of Lady Mary's life
as spent abroad seperate from fom her
lsband One Of her defendants thus
eaks of herselfimposed exile. ]
why Lady Mary Wortley left her own &
untry, and spent the last two-and-twenty +
ars Of her life in foreign land, is a ques. !
. which has been repeatedly asked. and i
yer can be answered with certainty, for e
ntofany positive evidence on the subject. f.
is very possible, however that the solu- il
uOf this supposed mystery, like that Of Il
ne riddles which put the engenuitv Of O.