The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-11-20

LUG ecAo VI 1lLaoe'u, VI EuSiduu,WAs
a physiological blunder. Many of her
most serious defects arose from her not
having been q man, as Nature must or.
iginslly designed. With a masculine
will, a masculine character, and q
masculine ambition, che had all the
feminine grsces or charms. Her van
ity was in excess Of her pride, and in
spite Of her unquestionable greatness.
rendered her ridiculous through life.
She was ever anxious to be loved. and
had the exceeding misfortune to be least
lovable when she loved most. There
was no great need of affection in her
stubborn spirit, no yearniDg for sympa-
thy in her sel-sufficient nature, no in
appeasa Die craving for what the roman
ticists would call an intercourse OF soul.
She wanted lovers more that love- be-
cause lovers fl Uttered her inordina,e
vanity, and told her, as lovers usually
do, that which she secretly thought OF
herself. She never tired Of hearing she
was the Virgin Queen, and never acted
a. If she relished the arrogated honor.
Coquetry she would have carried
to a perilous degree, if there had been
ANYTHING perilous in such homely
Amazon. Not one OF all the men she
had desperate and protracted flirtations
with-not even Raleigh. nor Leicester,
nor Essex-cared maravedi Tor her
in the way she wished them to, but
rom reasons OF state, and from motives
of policy, they pretended to adore her
Crafty cour'iers a. they were, it must
have been difficult for them to re'rain
from laughing in Ely beth's face when
they called her beautiful, or when they
compared her vol to the tones Of the
lutte. They had passed through many
hardships. but nothing harder than to
address Eurvale in the language hes
coming to Aglais. Raleigh showed h 8
keenness OF insight when he spread hi
rich mantle beneath her ungainly feet,
and Leicester his understanding Of
character when he wrote to her that her
lovely image banished sleep rom his
pillow. OF her numerous suitors none
would have given a flip for her heart,
hut much for her crown-the sole aim
Of their gallant masquerading.
The secret loves OF E lzab-th and Sey
mour, and Raleigh. aud Leicester, and
Essex, and others, have often been writ
Ten, and not, it is to be presumed, with.
out basis Of truth. But love is fine
baptism for relation. springing from
vanity on one side and from considera-
lions OF diplomacy on the other. The
Princess in her earlier years appeared
to be toud o. Seymour, and it is charita
able to think she WAS. Pretty stories
have been told of the Countess Of Not
tlngham's withholding the ring sent to
{ he Green by Essex before his execu-
ton, and OF the consuming sorrow from
which Elizabeth suffered after his
death. The stories are dramatic and in
terestirg, their chief detect beng that
they are entirely untrue. The woman
whose reputation had been almost IRE
parably injured by her connection with
a man of whom abe could calmly say
after his execution, His loss is not
much for though he had large wit, he
had little Judgment" would not he like
" to be troubled by remorse 'or deliber,
stelv seudlng her nearest friend to the
scaffhld.
Ell zabeth could not forgive in any of
her sisters the possession OF gifts and
traces which she must have been pri-
vately conscious were lacking in her
self Nary Stuart's objectionable o.
Tense was her beauty and seductive
charm, and her rival was never able to
regard with kindness the men who, vii
ling to forget the woman in the sover
eign. had sought her hand, and after.
ward welded where inclination led.
There is species OF dismal comnensa-
ton in all conditions OF life. II Eliza
beth failed TO awaken in any masculine
breast the flame with which she hoped
to kindle the torch of her vanity, and it
her vestal assumptions were not always
credited, she had the good fortune, 80
surrounded was she by distinguished
soldiers. statesmen, and scholars. to
shine with the light reflected rom them,
and bear in history a glory not her
own.-"Historic Lovers" By Junius
Henri Bro,one, in December GALAXY.