The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-05-05
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and wit. who lived more than century and
ahalf agol and yet h,.w little does me CONS
mon r1aders snow about he'll Tbs cotems
porary pc Pope and probably the only wo.
man The ungalnly little poet ever loved =
III 8 life bis bane--the friend of Congrev,
and Addison ire most loved and moss hated
woma n ofher time. the talented and beau
tsful Mary Wor1ey Montague IS still what
she was il her own iay, socially the great.
ost woman Ia England.
In looking back through this long vista ut
years, thronged though j. Be with many grace
ful forms of the good and the gifted that social
uminary seems to suffer no eclipse. We see
her, in coniacton with all the notabilities other
day, almost worshipped in foreign countries
and the object ofuniversal interest in her own.
We hear her conversing sagaciously with
statesmen ana philosophers; Of ADDRESSING
a bon mot, sparkling as The glances oil her bright
eye, to some admiring poet or wit Of her train;
or we readily conjure up that peculiar smile, at
once playful and recklessly mischievous, with
which she is detailing in one other matchless let
tiers, some new bit ofseandal, or satire or doa-
BE eat4sdrs, so racy. an sharp, and sparkling.
that it must undoubtedly have too often dyed
the cheeks Of the alarmed yet amused cores
.pondeht. But whateverthe circumstance, mood
attitude or occupation in it we are at once able
to recognize her as she stands prominently out
in the high relief Of her singular individuality
And we are as little apt to confound her in the
intellectual beauty Of her prime, with the Eas
tern hours of Constantinople as we are with
anybody else in the world, while we picture her
in her old age and mysterious exile, expatiating
With the keen epicurean relish which never
deserts her among violets and nightngales, he
bees and her silk worms, her fifteen bowers,
with different views AMI dining room al verdure;
At the same time that she tells US she has not
glanced into looking-glass for eleven years,
beeaese the last look was not very pleasant
one.
LAZY Mary PierrepoRt, eldest daughter c,f
Evelyn, first duke of Kingston, by tne Lady
MARI Fielding laughter OF William, arl OF Dem
bigh was bornsat Thoresby in No1tin shamshire
in the year 1890 She had two Sisters BY the
same parents, and anonlY brother, who died Of
smail pox during his fatherss lifetime, and
whose son became tie Sc sond and last Duke
Of Kingston. The elder Of her two sisters La
dy Frances-to whom some Of her best letters
were addresse I-aas married 70 John Erskine
Earl of ao.f, aid the other. Lady Evelyn, to
John, B arl Of Cover.
It - interesting to note. that, both by fathers
an mO.ners side, Lady Mary came of an ac-.
tive a1d energetic race. The Fieldings qa.
well as the Pieueponts, were deeply engaged
ia the civil wsr, and apparently from indiEidu
al convictions two brothers of the latter, and
a fat err and son among the former, having
chosen different sides. Leigh Hunts tells us
these were not the highest qualities to which
she might have laid claim BY inheritance =
Genus and wit had also mantle tied themselves
in the family before. her day q Gorge Villiers
the witty Duke Of Buckingham, having been
her great uncle; and Beaumont, the dramist,
also her. re alton, bis mother being Pierrepont,
Of the same stock.
Lady Mary, to her great misfortune lost her
mother at the early age 4 years; and though
she speaks highly Of her grandmother the
Countess Dowager of Denbigh and Desmond
as having had a sapsfior I'm ierst lnding
and having retained it to an extraordinarily
advanced age, That lady appears to have done
but little towards Supplying 70 her the important
mateeal duties Indeed the want of a certain
delicacy of nind and feminine self restraint
the usual results o. careful training, caused
in all probability much of the suffering which
em5ittesed her after life.
Attic age Of fourteen, we find her lamenting
10 a melodious couplet, that she has in vain
sought truth either in town, court or sanctuary
at fifteen. sheis busy with the project Of estab.
fishing 4 nunnery in England, Of which she in
tends one day to BE the lady abbess; and at
twenty she translated. the Enchiridon, and
to her friend the bishop, in sober
and digni6ed strain, of the injustice and neglect
shown to women supporting her views BY a
Latin quotation from Erasmus.
We now approach the most important epoch
Of our beroine's life-her courtship and mari.
age: and though love may be well said to be
second only to deathin its powers Of leveiling
or bringing the whole Worldiato kindred. it will
be allowed that Lady Hary's individuality Of
mind and feeling as developed in her love letter;
must certainly rescue her from the fate ofbe-
ing mixed up and COMPOUNDED with the common
mass ofloyers. This Mr. Edward Y ortley,
the brother Of her friend who Is described as q
handsome accomplished youth Of good sense
and much learning the constant associate Of Adj
olson. Steele. Congrege. and other notable men