Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-12-28
The Loves of Elizabeth,

! The sex Of Elizabeth Of England was physl.
| OluSicAi blundcr. Many Of her most serious
/ defects arose from her not being man. as ma
I iure must originally have designed With
! mnscdline WILL masculine character and a
masculine ambition, size had all the feminine
"eaknesscs without any OF tine feminine graces
/ or Charms. Her vanity was in excess of her
pride, and IN spite of her uruuesliOnabIe great.
[ ness, rendered her ridiculous through ltte.
/ She was ever anxious to be loved and had the
exceeding misfortune 20 be least lUvable when
! size loved most. There was no great need of
! affection in her stubborn spirit, no yearnina
! for sympathy in her self sufficient nature, no
| nappeasabe craving for what romantictsts
would call an Intercourse soul, She wanted
levers more than love, brcause lovers fattefcd
her nordinate 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 as if she
reiishtd the arrOgated honor. Coquetry she
would nave carried 10 pcrilous degree, if
thtre mad been anything perilOus in such "a
homely Amazon. Not one ofall the men she
had desperate and protraced hirtatiOns with
not even Rieigh, nor Leicester, nor Essex
cared marycdi for her in The way She wished
them 10; but from reasons Of state, and from
motives ofpoiicy, they pretended tc adore her.
Crafty courtitrs as they were, ii must have
been difficult to refrain from laughing in Eliz-
abeths face when they called her beautiful, or
NLth thty Cpilpditl HtG VOICE 10 TIE tones Ot
| the iule. They had passed through t1iahy
hards!.i2s, but nothing hardcr than to Iress
Enryale in language becoming an Algaia
Raleigh showed his keennrss Of insight when
lie spread his rich mantle beneath her ungain-
~ feet, and Leicester his understanding of
Character when he wrote to her that her lovely
image banished sleep from his pillow, or
her numerous suiors none would have given
Il flip for her heart, but much for her crown
the sole ain, Of their gallant masqueratling,
The secret loves of Elizabeth, and Seymour,
and Raleigh, and Leicester, and Essex, and
Others, have often been written, and not, il is
to be presumed, without basis Of truth But
is fine baptism for relations springing from
vanity on one side and from considerations of
diplomacy on the ether The Princess in her
early years appeared 10 be fond OF Seymour,
and tits charitable 10 think she was. Pretty
stories have been told Of the Countess of moi.
tingham's Withholding the ring sent to the
Queen by Essex before his execution, and of
consuming sorrow which Elizabeth suffered
after his death The stories are dramatic and
Interesting; their chief defect being that they
are entirely untrue. The woman whose rspu.
tation had been almost irrcparab!y injured by
her connection with man Of whom she could
calmly say after his execution, His loss is not
much; for though he had large wit, be had
little judgment" would not likely 10 be
troubled by remOrse for deliberately sending
her nearest friend to the scaiFold.
Elizabeth could not forgive in any of her sis.
tiers the poss 'ssion OF gifts and graces which
she mus: have been privately conscious were
lacking in herself Mary Stuarl's unpardona-
bic ofiense was her beauty and seductive
charms, and her rival WAS never able tn regard
With Kindness the men who, willing To forget
the woman in the sovereign, had sought her
hand and afterward welded where inclination
led. There is sprclts of dismal compensa.
ton in all conditions oflfe. If Elizabeth fail
ed 10 awaken in any masculine breast the flame
with which she hoped to kinde the torch of
her vanity, and If her vestal assumptions were
not always credited, she had the good fortune,
so credited, she had the good fortune, so sur
rounded was she by distinguished soldiers,
statesmen, and scholars, to shine with the light
reflected from them, and bear In history glory
not her own December Galarg