Identifier: portraitgallery02duyc (find matches)
Title: Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878
Subjects: Biography, Portraits Biography Portraits
Publisher: New York : Johnson, Fry and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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a daughter of thelate Judge Josiah Hoffman. The ladydied and her lover never married.There is thought to be an allusion tothis in a beautiful passage in hissketcli of St. Marks Eve in Brace-bridge Hall, where it is written:—There are departed beings that Ihave loved as I never again shall love in this world—that have loved me asI never again shall be loved. Mr.Thackeray, the eminent novelist, hasmentioned this tenderly in a few wordsof trilnite to the memory of his friend :— He had loved once in his life. Thelady he loved died; and he, whom allthe world loved, never sought to re-place her. I cant say how much thethought of that fidelity has touchedme. Does not the very cheerfulness ofhis after-life add to the pathos of tliatuntold story? To grieve always wasnot in his nature; or, when he had hissorrow, to bring all tke world in tocondole with him and bemoan it. Deepand quiet he lays the love of his heartand buries it, and grass and flowersgrow over tke scarred ground in duetime.
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VICTOR EMANUEL I. YICTOR EMANUEL L, Kingof Italy, was born March 14 th,1820, His father, Charles All)ert, suc-ceeded to the sovereignty of Sardiniaon the death of Charles Felix, in 1831.The House of Savoy, from which Vic-tor Emanuel is descended, is one ofthe most ancient sovereign families inEurope, ascending to the eleventh cen-tury. In the midst of wars and alli-ances, the Duchy of Savoy held itsown, and gradually increased its au-thority till, in the early part of theeighteenth century, the island of Sar-dinia was permanently annexed to itsterritory, and the Dukes of Savoy be-came Kings of Sardinia. In the warsconsequent upon the French Revolu-tion, the kingdom was overrun bythe French invaders, and its royalfamily driven into exile, frorn whichVictor Emanuel, the predecessor ofCharles Felix, returned, on the restora-tion of the kingdom after the downfallof Najioleon, when, by the treaty ofVienna, Genoa was added to his do-minions. Over this territory CharlesAlbert was ruling in 1

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