Memoirs of Emma, Lady Hamilton, the Friend of Lord Nelson And the Court of Naples;
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He did his best to " form " her, and in the course of time she was able to share his botanical studies, which they pursued not as " pedan-tical prigs " to air learning, but with zeal and pleasure in the early mornings and fresh air of the " English " gardens. Her aptitude and adaptiveness worked wonders. Within a year she could take an intelligent interest in the virtuoso's new volume, if we may judge from Sir J. Banks, who some years later again bade his old crony tell her that he hoped she adm...ired Penelope in his work on Urns. She aided his volcanic observations; Sir William laughed, and said she would rival him with the mountain now. Both had already stayed with, and she had enchanted, the Duke and Duchess of St. Maitre at Sorrento, the musical Countess of Mahoney at Ischia; cries of " Una donna rara," " bellissima creatura," were on every mouth. The Duke of Gloucester begged Hamilton to favour him with her acquaintance. The Olympian Goethe himself beheld and marvelled. Her unpretending naivete won her adherents at every step.
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