New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-30

guage, which however poor for the higher tsr.
poses of passion1 is rich beyond alt o,hers for
purposeso Of soeisl interedssFse, pronpts fheta n
rapid and vivaeious excbsagsof thouriss YTs,i.
BUSINESS, therefore, above all other yicass ends mo-
sauatenanceor Indulgence amongst The French.
excepting Always Id two memorable eases viz
hrst. the case of tragic dialogue on the staap
which is privileged 70 be tefions BY usage arYA
tradition; and secondly, the case, authorized
oy the best usages in living society of nasgSa
tors or rdc0nfenrs. This is shocking anszyS s
oily In the code Of French good taste as appIgsd
TO conversation OF all the bores whom nisr I'M
his folly hesttates to hang, and heaven in III
mysterious wisdom, suffers to propagate thejx
species. the most insufferahle Il the taller ~!
good stories'- nuisance that shoaId bs 81 +;
Town by cudgeling. BY sttbmersion ID htrs&
2ondss Or any mode Of abatenens IA ssfissTSf5ksSs
~ men would combine to suffocate a fvanll fS(fx
z mad deg This case excepted hoNsxx} + ID
sreneh haxe the keenest possible sense sIssl
Snae is oalous and all that is ludicrous in prs1
slhgs ahn universally have a horror Of dss ioss
gneys. Ills not strange. therefore tfias Madame
se Stael noticed little az extraordinary II, Gsls-
ridge beyond this one capital nonstrasit ~ g AN,
limited soloquy, that being d pec,,liaritv ,rI3rh
she never could have Witnessed in Frar,cs a,,fg
considering the btirHisis OF her French tastes n,
all that concerned colloqnial charaeteristics. e.
is credtable to her forbearanee that she natieed
the inhuman fault thatit was. On the other
hand, Goleridge was not go forbearing az rs..
garded the brilliant French lady. espokeof her
70 ourselves as q very frivolous person, and n
short, summary terms that disdained To isnrsrs
upon subjectso fnconsiderabla It ItsreinaFEa-
ole thar Goethe and Schiller both eonversed Nth
Madame de stael, like Coieridge and loth sbole
OF her afteward in the same dasparagipe terms
| as toierIdge B # it is equally renaar kable
that Baron Wiiiiaaa Humboldt, who was per-
sonaiiy acquainted with all the four parties
Madame de Stael, Goethe, Schiller and ealse
ridge-gave it a. kis opinion lin letters sfI,se
quently puhlisheds) that the lady had been ca
Illuminated through very ignoble cause, viz. :,
,ners ignorance q the French language, or, al
least, non familiarities with the faenciss ~
| oral French. Neither Goethe nor schille,.
| though well acquainted with written French.
had any command Of it for purposes az ran;g
conversation and Humboldt supposes that mere
spite at the trouble which they found iii lirupnv
after the lady so as to catch one thoneht that
she uttered, had been the true cause Of The m
favorable sentence upon her Not malice afare
thought,sso much vindictive fury for the ssif-
ferings they had endured, accounted for their
severity IN the opinion Of the diplomatic baron
de did not extend the same explanation to Cole
ridge'S case, because, though even then in ha =
BITS OF intercourse with Coleridae, be had not
heard OF has interview with the lady, nor Of the
results from that interview; else what was true
Of the two German wits was true d faTtioyii n
Coleridge; the Germans at least read French
and talked it slowly. and occasionaily under
stood it when talked by others But Goleridre
did none of these things. We are all of us well
aware that Madame de Stael was not trffer
nay, that she gave utterance at times to truths
as worthy to be held oracular as any that were
uttered by the three inspired wits, all philoso-
piers. and bound to truth; hut ali poets. and
privileged to be wayward. This we may collect
from these apecdotes, that people accustomed to
colloquial despotism, and who WELD sceptre
within circle of theiro own, are no longer apa-
Bile of impartial judgments. and do NOT accom-
modate themselves with patience, or even with
justice, to the pretension of rivals; and were it
il calls clamorousy for extinction by some CON,
bined action upon the part of society. s8