The diary of an ennuyée
With regard to a certain little Diary, of which it has been thought proper to give here a new edition, — what shall I say ? If I have cheated some gentie readers out pf rfruch superfluous sympathy — as it has been averred — it was certainly without design.
I can but repeat here the excuse already inserted in another place, ' that the work in question was not written for publication, nor would ever have been printed but for accidental circumstances ; that the title under which it appeared was not given by the writer, but the publisher, who at the time knew nothing of the real author: and that some false dates, unimportant circumstances, and fictitious characters, were afterwards interpolated, to conceal, if possible, the real purport and origin of the work ; for the intention was not to create an illusion, by giving to fiction the appearance of truthbut, in fact, to conceal truth by throwing over it the veil of fiction
for the first time, since their publication, has been rather a painful task : once or twice I have felt inclined to make the amende honorable. They contain some opinions which I have seen reason to alter or modify ; they record some feelings which I would rather have forgotten ; and Italy has since undergone some social and political changes : but the observations on art and natural scenery remain as applicable now as they were ten years ago ;
Some contents:
Calais; Biddy Fudge; Necessity of -writing a Diary; Diary of a Blue Devil; Rouen; Joan of Arc; Paris; Comic Scenes in the Champs Elis^es; Anecdote; Edtnonde; Story of Genevieve; Illness of the Writer; Le Solitaire; Paris from the Pont des Arts ; Contrast of English and French Manners; Remarks on Paris Page 17 — 30
First Impression mountain Scenery; the Jura; the Italian Alps; Geneva; Anecdotes of Josephine and of Marie Louise ; Mad. de Stael and M. Rocca ; Panorama of Lausanne; Departure from Geneva; La Meillerie Vevai; Scenery between Geneva and the Simplon; Village of Davedro; Sorrowful Reflections; Anecdote of Rousseau and the Heloise; Milan; Shrine of St. Carlo BoiTomeo; Scenes and Anecdotes; Venus and Hercules transformed into Saints; the Brera; Marriage of the Virgin; Remarks on the Hagar 3
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Art -- Italy, Italy -- Description and travel
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