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Auteur : Lee, Vernon (Violet Paget)
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Auteurs : Lee, Vernon (Violet Paget) ; Anstruther Thomson, Clementina
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Auteur : Lee, Vernon (Violet Paget)
[Written across the first page in red ink:]
On account of the wet weather they have not yet finsihed the cast from the little Orphans copy
Flor. Jan. 9. 80
My dearest Mary. You seem to want an answer to your postcard; So I won’t delay. Dearest little Princess Quesara, I can’t tell you how sweet I think of you to want to dedicate that poem to your Vernon, nor how much pleasure it would give me to see my name associated with the one that is always uppermost in my thoughts.
Also, as a writer, I my vanity would be extremely gratified, because I do so completely believe in you as an artist; and it would also be a sort of friendly introduction into a world into which my intention has been (& is) to get by mere solitary battering.
But there seem to me several reasons against it. Some perhaps absurd, but one which I think you should certainly take into consideration. As the book as a whole is dedicated to an old friend & encourager of yours, would there not be something – how shall I express it?- something strange in any portion being dedicated to someone else, especially a someone else of whom you had never heard when you probably decided to whom to dedicate the whole?
I don’t know the etiquette or the rationnel of dedication: of course the effect depends on what is or is not the custom. I should be horribly sorry if you did anything which you might afterwards regret, --I think at this moment, when you care for me as you do, you can scarcely judge fairly of what you might afterwards think on the subject. Also, I don’t think you will ever have reasons to be ashamed of me.
As the as to what I feel; but from one of the things you have said & from my knowledge of my own temper, perhaps you may later have occasion to hear me blamed & blame me yourself for what you might think a crude & unwomanly way of speaking: you know that on that point there is a difference in our temper or our education (I felt it dreadfully, to my disadvantage, that evening you went out of the room at Siena, tho’ I afterwards completely sympathised ˰with˰ & admired yr behaviour) – well, perhaps someday you might be sorry to have bracketed yrself with me. And I should be dreadfully sorry at that.
You know, or don’t know, that one man, who rather admires me as a writer told me (on my Contemporary articles) that I might give Ouida lessons of impropriety of language: I don’t care a rush for what such folk say, but you & your people might. The principal objection is the filching, as it seems to me, of parts of the book from Mr Symonds.
Dearest Mary, it costs me a great deal to say this, because I should dearly like the thing. But I think I ought to say what occurs to me. The intention in itself is more than I could hope; and it will be very pleasant for me to think, if ever I hear that poem praised, of the time when I told you the story out of Cinthis; that very happy time on the bench on the Uffizzi stairs, which is so short a time since, but seems so infinitely long ago.
Do just as you think proper; I am too selfish to say deliberately no to what I should like; only I must suggest my doubts to you.
It is very kind of you to send me the photographs, which I suppose will come tomorrow. I hope, dear that some day you will show me the originals, as I showed you the pictures at Siena.
I have been feeling very ungrateful & discontented of late; seeing a good many people; coming home in the evening from people who are so friendly & encouraging to me, I yet feel a sort of rage at the notion that they are what I must live with always ˰all year round˰, weekly, daily, and that the one person I care most for I can barely hope to see for a few short days every two or three years. I can’t say how much touched I am every time I think of that sentence about the picture of the lamps at Siena.
Did I thank your sister abo for her likeness? Tell me about Miss Poynter; I fear she wd very much disapprove of my ways if she knew them.
Goodbye dearest Mary
Always yr Vernon
Auteur : Lee-Hamilton, Eugene
Auteur : Lee-Hamilton, Eugene
Auteur : Lee-Hamilton, Eugene
Auteur : Lee-Hamilton, Eugene
Auteur : Lee-Hamilton, Eugene
MeWC
Paris, le 31 Octobre 1871
Lundi matin
Ma bien chère Violette.
Hier je suis allé avec Montigny et les Castillons au Louvre, où nous avons vu un musée que je ne connaissais pas encore, celui des statues modernes. J’entends par moderne ce qui date des 17ème, et 18ème et 19ème siècles.
Que je regrette, mon amie, que nous [ne] soyons pas allés ensemble avant notre/votre départ pour la Suisse ! Tu ne peux t’imaginer ce qu’il y a là de belles choses. Il y a d’abord pas mal de statues du 17ème siècle à la Bernini, notamment celles de Puget, qui sont sans doute fort elles, mais qui sont trop agitées, trop complexes pour me plaire beaucoup. Mais ce qui m’a vraiment ravi ce sont les ˆdeuxˆ superbes statues en bronze, le Mercure attachant ses talonnières, de Rude, et la Diane de Houdon. Ces deux statues ont quelque chose de classique que je n’ai jamais rencontré que dans ˆchezˆ le Persée de Canova. La Diane est toute nue, et est représentée courant, tenant d’une main son arc, de l’autre une flèche. Elle ne tient au piédestal que par le bout d’un du pied droit et qui ne semble pas l’effleurer. Avec le marbre, il eût fallu des appuis, un tronc d’arbre, un levier, que sais-je, pour balancer la statue sur une seule jambe et tout l’effet eût été perdu. Il y a aussi dans la même salle cette belle statue ˆde Canovaˆ que vous avez vue dans une villa du lac de Côme, et que nous avons revue chez Tadolini, je veux dire avec le Cupidon et Psyche de Canova. Celle que j’ai vue hier est apparemment l’original, car rien n’indique qu’elle ne soit une copie ˆetˆ elle y est exposée avec le nom de Canova et la date. Peutêtre [Peut-être] plusieurs exemplaires de cette statue sont-ils sortis de l’atelier du maître ?
J’ai aussi découvert l’autre jour au Louvre le musée des bronzes antique [antiques], qui contient des choses très intéressantes et très belles. C’est assez curieux qu’il y ait à Rome si peu en fait de bronzes antiques. Il n’y a que je sache, que la statue équestre de Marc Aurèle, et un débris de cheval da au musée du Capitole. Et pourtant les Anciens et surtout les Romains étaient très forts en ce genre. Au Louvre il y a plusieurs statues intactes d’une grande beauté, notamment un Apollon, et quelques têtes d’empereurs, xxxx, entre autres, deux belles têtes de Tibère et de Caligula. Il y a aussi quantité de statuettes d’un fort beau travail, et une belle collection de vases et d’autres utensils [ustensiles] de bronze. J’y ai même remarqué un casque.
En somme je t’avoue que je commence à prendre un gout [goût] très prononcé pour le bronze.
M. de Castillon, qui malgré sa liaison avec Mme de Belle, continue à ce que me dit Montigny à aller dans le monde, m’a fait hier des offres très empressées ˆaimablesˆ de me présenter cet hiver chez plusieurs de ses parents et amis du faubourg St Germain, et de me procurer au jusqu’à trois ou quatre xxxx ˆinvitationsˆ. Mais je suis sur mes gardes, et je sais ce que ˆvalent très souventˆ de telles promesses. – valent Toutefois je n’en suis pas fâché.
J’attends Montigny pour aller faire une promenade. –C’est un camarade très agréable, très cordial et surtout très comique ; je crois décidément qu’il a bon cœur ; mais il est, comme la plupart des personnes qui brillent par l’esprit, un peu léger, et il reste à savoir s’il pourra se mettre sérieusement au travail, et faire quelque chose d’utile.
Ta dernière lettre, où tu me donne [donnes] une espèce d’épitaphe de Pinelli m’a bien amusé. Je suis bien aise que tu aies pu passer quelques temps à Milan, à Parme et à Bologne. Que je regrette de ne pas avoir été avec vous !
Adieu ma bonne Violette
Ton Eugène
Auteur : Lee-Hamilton, Eugene
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Auteur : Lee, Vernon (Violet Paget)
Florence 30 Dec 85.
My darling – Many thanks for your Xmas letter and for the dear little etchings, which I shall have framed.
I seem to feel a sort of vague depression throughout your letter. I like to know when you are cheerful, dear child, & when you are depressed ; but I also like to know, if possible, why.
What is all this rubbish about being selfish & jealous ? If it is about me that you are jealous, it is just absurd. I either found the people who suit me best, in the XXX , at once, or else, as I grow older, I become less able to find real people to suit me. Personally, being the least/most jealous of mortals, I think jealousy contemptible particularly in friendship : a feeling evolved for the benefit of married people lest other folks’ babies should be foisted on them ! And which has somehow crept into other relations ; useful there, I suppose, to keep one up to the mark & to prevent all things turning stale ; also useful I think, or affording the salutary or damnable flash in which one sees the beloved’s faults, in which one’s heart is set free (which it ought always to be) and one’s ideal is killed off, to reincarnate elsewhere – If in the meanwhile it afford you any satisfaction to know that I have found no one to care for more than you, & that it is much more than improbable I ever shall, accept this scientific fact.
If, on the other hand, as I suspect, your depression & consequent sense of unworthiness/depression makes me think other folks unworthy) arises, as most things arise, from a different cause than you suppose --, if it is that you are beginning again to care for my friend, philosophically console yourself by considering that reciprocity of feeling is the first step on the fatal road where the ideal is lost. What I say sounds cynical, but it is not. I am not depressed about any one save myself, and the apparent uselessness with which I am threatened, & which I must circumvent to some degree.
The reading of Bourget’s very marvellous book has made me feel that there wd be little satisfaction in feeling oneself to be a remarkable intellect, an exquisite writer, a professionnal success, an amiable creature, unless one could find the handle of that pump that Hercules worked, & turn all the oceans into this filthy world, particularly the filthy land of France, to clean the place & drown the intelligent vermin which infest it. Faugh ! That paper on Dumas Fils ! That disease, called La Femme – a disease of the French brain & heart. I don’t know when I have felt so sick. But wd Some things I can stand in patience ; but when it comes to these dirty buster insulting what it, after all, the least dirty thing in this dirty world, womankind, in order to exonerate themselves.
It strikes me you may be fancying yourself jealous of Miss Blomfield. She gave me a spasme psychologique for ten days – interest in her curious chivalric, Brangwain[1] sort of soul – a spasm of vanity too at her adoration of me. But that’s all. I am ashamed to think how little affection I feel for this amiable creature. She is, apart from her very decided literary gift & her strange Brangwain character, not a fleur pour porter à sa boutonnière, and you know that I want such things.
She is astonishingly below the average in appearance, manners, education & interest in things. She is very ill, poor girl, anaemic & hysterical & has had many misfortunes ; but she is so without natural energy, & so has evidently always lived with such fearful frumps & stupids (sic) of the clerical sort, that she is below not only her talents, but below, so to speak, her own misfortunes & merits.
I suspect Mary Wakefield has simply got bored to extinction with her absolute want of anything external that can take the imagination & the presence of much that worries it. Fortunately I am more honest than I suspect her to be ; I always held back & told the girl the only way I could take an interest in her was to try to make me more of what her talents & character warrant. I shall certainly be loyal & do my best by her, but sentiment, sentimental sentiments (sic), particularly I can have only for people who/
have something obviously & patently superior to myself ; who have an influence of some sort upon me, enlarge my world or my power of seeing.
This letter reads like a model of cynicism & conceit ; yet I am neither cynical nor conceited.
Tell me I am a beast ; and I shall laugh in your face ! be quite pleased. # I must be off to the hospital now ; it is bitterly cold & the people are dying there very quickly.
I haven’t been allowed to see Bella yet.
Thank M. Geo. Macmillan when you see him for his kind note. I wrote on behalf of Mrs Callander.
Goodbye darling Mouse, love your
Old Vernon
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Auteurs : Noufflard, Berthe ; Price, Mabel
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