Memoirs of the Countess De Genlis, Illustrative of the History of the Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries 2
Memoirs of the Countess De Genlis, Illustrative of the History of the Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries 2
Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse De, 1746-1830
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Barke's, where I saw Mr. Windham, who was afterward so celebra- ted : in company he was one of the mildest and most amia- ble of men ; I also met there Sir Joshua Reynolds, the best portrait painter in Epgland. Mr. Burke carried me to Ox- ford, where we passed two days. In Ute chapel of Christ^s College, I admired the fine stained glass-windows, then newly painted by Reynolds ; he has there represented Hope in an ingenious manner, seen from behind, with her head lifted towards heaven, and her a...rms raised towards the clouds. There is a vagueness in the idea, which is in per- fect harmony with the subject. On my return to London, I received a message from the Queen, who dispatched M. Duluc,* her reader, to invite me to Windsor, where she passed the summer ; this was a great distinction, for she never received foreigners there. I dined at Windsor with Madame La Fitte, under-govemess of the princesses, with whom I had been in correspondence ; she had sent me a little work of her own, entitled Conver- sations of a governess with her pupils, of which, at her re- quest, 1 undertook the editorship, and to which I wrote a preface; 1 had a private audience of more than two hours with the queen, there was no one jpresent but the princesses her daughters, and her lady of honour, Lady Pembroke, who introduced me, and with whom 1 had been acquainted pre- * The author of several esteemed scientific works.
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