of her girlhood.150 Here her father, pointing151 to 152 the dead body of her mother, upbraids 153 her with 154 neglect 155 of filial duty 156, 56, conveys1 157 to her a ma 1 6 1 ternal158 curse159 instead of a blessing, and further160 incensed by beholding her in this degraded 162 condition, stigmatises 163 her as the most worthless 164 of women, and drives 165 her from his hut. Now is poor Griseldis poor indeed. Overcome 166 with167 hunger and wretchedness 168, she lays herself down on a stone to die, which so touches the old man's heart, that he consents 169 to receive 170 her. And thus she lives: resuming 171 her hard172 labour173 and her hard fare17, praying1 175 to God for her husband and child, and fading away 17 beneath her griefs. 177 Three months elapse 178, and Griseldis appears in the same russet garb pale and wan 179, when a horn is heard; and the king and the queen, and all the court, with Percival in the midst 180, crowd 181 into the lonely valley. 182 Griseldis looks and listens in 183 speechless 184 amazement185, as 186 Percival explains how all this suffering has been but a trial of her duty, which 187 having abided the sharpest proof, the queen here falls on her knees 189 and owns 190 her peerless 191 1 among 73 Arbeit, f. 74 Nah 62entwürdigen. 63 brandmarken. 66 überwältigen. sich nehmen. 71 zurückkehren zu. 72 2 rauh. rung. 75 beten. 79 schmächtig. 84 sprachlos. 88 bestehen. 85 64 unwürdig. 76 hinwelken. 77Gram, m., sing. 78 vergehen. 80 Mitte, f. 81 fich drängen. 82 Thal, n. 83mit. indem. 87 say, and since this had. 9o anerkennen als. 91 unvergleichlich. 5 Staunen. 89 Knie (pl.—e). 86 194 women. And now Percival, with a face radiant 19? with 193 gratified pride, bids 195 her return to his castle and resume her sway 196 over him and all his possessions. But Griseldis, with an unutterable197 expression 198 of woe 199, here lifts 200 up her voice: "Percival, thou art lost to 201 me for ever. 2 0 2 God 1.nows that I would have borne 203 humiliation 204, torture205, death in any 206 shape207, for 208 thy good209, - that I have suffered grief, degradation210, and hardship211, - have taught my hands again to labour, and have washed my bread with tears at212 thy bidding 2 1 3 without a complaint214; but to know that thou hast wrung215 thy wife's tenderest216 feelings, that thou hast loaded 217 my heart with a dying mother's curse, hast turned218 my raven locks 219 to grey, and taught me, in a few months, an eternity 220 of misery 2 21, and that all this wretchedness has been (say heaped on me) but to prove 22 my duty to the world - but to gratify thy vanity! heart. What is 223 -- this, this it is that breaks my a queen's homage to me when Percival has lost my esteem224? Ask me not to return; my mother's spectre 225 would rise 2 26 between us; I should despise 27 myself for 228 following the weakness 229 of my affection, and thou wouldst despise me 92 strahlen. 93 vor. 94 befriedigen. aussprechlich. 2 auf immer. 6 jeder. digung. 16zart. 95 heißen. 96 Herrschaft. 97un= 200 erheben. 1für. 98 Ausdruck. 99 9 Jammer, m. 3 ertragen. 4 5 Marter, f. 10 Herabwür= Erniedrigung. 13 Geheiß, n. 14 Klage. 15 foltern. 19 Ra= benhaar, n., sing. 20 Ewigkeit. 21 Schmerz, m., take the plural. 23 gelten, with Dat. 24 Achtung. 25 Geist. 26 sich 27 verachten. 22 beweisen. erheben. 29 Schwachheit. 28 say, if I were to follow wollte ich, etc. for loving one I had ceased 230 to revere. 231 No,-ask me not, it cannot be. Let me remain with 232 him who pitied 233 me when I seemed most guilty.234 Farewell, my Percival, cherish 235 our child, and tell him that his mother died.236 Come father." And so saying, Griseldis resists 237 every 238 solicitation239, and, weeping, leaves the scene. 240 This dénouement is the theme 24 of all conversation; and parties 22 run high 243 for and against its moral. 2 4 4 Some little patient Griseldises of the society blame their prototype 245 for not returning, and some selfish 246 Percivals acquit her, and vice versa. 248 247 I venture 2 4 9 no opinion. Count M. wiped 250 his eyes 251, and hoped they made it up2 2 behind the scenes. 253 (Letters from the Baltic.) 3 THERE are few writers for whom the reader feels such personal kindness as for Oliver Goldsmith; for few have so eminently possessed the magic gift 5 of identifying themselves with their writings. We read his character in every page, and grow into familiar intimacy 10 40 with him as we read. The artless 12 bene 3o aufhören. 34 schuldig. 31 verehren. 40 Bühne, f. 32 bei. 33 3 sich erbarmen, with Gen. 35 lieben. 36 take the Perfect. 37 widerstehen. 38all. 41 Gegenstand. 42 der Parteigeist. 43 sich lebhaft regen. 44 Moral, f. 45 Urbild, n. 46 selbstisch. 39 Flehen, n. 48 umgekehrt. 49 5o trocknen. wagen. 47 freisprechen. 3 1 Schriftsteller. 2persönlich. Freundschaft. 5 51 say, 4in so bedeutendem 9 Grade. Zauberkraft, f. 6so ganz aufgehen. 7in, Acc. auf. Seite, f. 1oinnig vertraut werden. 11indem. 12unerkünftelt. volence that beams 0 times with a 32 33 nature 3 3 of throughout 15 his works, - the whimsical, yet amiable 17 views 18 of 19 human life and human nature, the unforced20 humour 21, blending 22 so happily with good 23 feeling 24 and good 25 sense 26, and singularly27 dashed 28 at 29 pleasing 3 melancholy 31,- even the very his mellow 34, flowing 35, and softly tinted 36 style37, all3 8 seem to bespeak39 his moral as well as his intellectual1 o qualities11, and make12 us love the man at the same time that we admire the author. While the productions 4 5 of writers of loftier 6 pretension17, and more sounding 4 8 names, are suffered 49 to moulder 50 on our shelves 51, those of Goldsmith are cherished 52 and laid in 53 our bosoms. We do not quote them with ostentation", but they mingle with our minds 59, sweeten 60 our tempers, and harmonise 2 our thoughts: they put 3 us in good humours with ourselves and with the world, and in so68 doing they make us happier and better men.6 9 54 8 55 66 1 7 An acquaintance70 with the private biography of art, f. 43da. 24 13 Wohlwollen. 14 durchstrahlen. 15 überall. 16 sonderbar. 17liebenswürdig. 18 Ansicht. 19von, with Def. Art. 2o ungezwungen. 21 Wiß, m. 22 sich vereinigen. 23zart. 4 Gefühl, n. 25 gesund. 26 Verstand. 27 seltsam. 28 durchweben. 29 zu. 30gefällig. 31 Schwermuth, f. 32ci= gentlich. 33 Wesen, n. 34weich. 35 fließend. 36sanft gefärbt. 37 Schreib38sing. 39 verrathen. 40geistig. 41Gigenschaft. 42zwingen. 44 Autor. 45 Werk, n. 46höher. 47 Anspruch, pl. 4 8 velltönend. 49 say, we suffer lassen. 5 overmodern. 51 Bücherbrett, n. (pl.-er). 52hcgen. 53 legen an. Herz, n.. sing. 55 anführen. 56Scheingelehrsamkeit. 57 but does not here deny so much, as it continues the discourse. 58 sich verweben. 59 Geist, sing. 6obesänftigen. 61Gc= müth, sing. 62in Einklang bringen. 63 verseßen. say, a good. 65 Stimmung. 66gegen. 67indem. 68say, this. 69 omit men. 70say, die Bekanntschaft. 71das Privatleben berücksichtigend. 72Lebensbe= schreibung. 54 64 7 75 79 89 Goldsmith lets 73 us into the secret of his gifted pages. 7 6 We there discover them to be little more than transcripts 78 of his own heart, and picturings 7" of his fortunes. 8 0 There he shows 81 himself the same kind, artless, goodhumoured, excursives 3, sensible 84, whimsical, intelligents being 87 that he appears in his writings. Scarcely an adventures 8 or character is given s in his works that may not be traced to his own particoloured story. Many of his most ludicrous scenes? 3 and ridiculous 94 incidents 95 have been drawn from 96 his own blunders 97 and mischances; and he seems9" really 100 to have been buffeted into 10 almost every maxim 102 imparted 103 by him for the instruction 1 0 4 of his reader. 92 XI. GOLDSMITH'S PARENTAGE 1 AND BIRTHPLACE. 2 5 OLIVER Goldsmith was born on3 the 10th of November, 1728, at the hamlet of Pallis, or Pallasmore, county of Longford, in Ireland. He sprang from a respectable but by no means (a) thrifty stock.10 8 families seem to inherit kindness 12 and incompetency1 and to hand down virtue and poverty from generation1 84 80 9 Some 13 15 73einlassen. 74 Geheimniß, n. 75 geistreich. 76 Schrift. 77darin. 78 Ab= schrift. 79 Schilderung. 8oGlücksfall. 81 sich erweisen als. 82gutmüthig. 83 herumstreifend. 4 verständig. 85 drollig. 86 geistvoll. 87 Wesen. 88 Abenteuer. 89 erwähnen. 9ozurückführen. 91bunt. 92 lustig. 93 Auftritt. 94lächerlich. 95 Ereigniß, n. 96entlehnen, with Dat. 97Irrthum, m. (pl.―thümer). 98 Unfall. 99 say, it seems as if every maxim had been buffeted into him. 100wirklich. 101einpauken, with Dat. 102 Grundsay. 103 vortragen. 104 Belehrung. 5 Grafschaft, say, 10 Geschlecht, n. Abkunft. 2Geburtsort,-m. 3an. 4Dörfchen. in the. stammen. "aus. achtbar. wohlhabend. 11 erben. 12 Herzensgüte. 13 Untüchtigkeit. 14 überliefern. |