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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
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Italian
literature
furnishes
a
delightful
theme
for
comment.
It
is
singular
that
an
enslaved,
and,
during
many
ages,
a
depraved
and
degraded
people,
should
have
possessed
the
purest
poetry,
the
least
exceptionable
drama,
in
Europe.
There
is
little
to
exclude,
and
much
to
recommend,
in
this
beautiful
language.
The
works
of
Tasso
abound
with
high
sentiment;
the
"Inferno"
of
Dante
is
a
sublime
picture
of
eternal
retribution,
softened
with
most
touching
pictures
of
human
woe.
Happy
are
those
who
have
leisure
to
pursue
extensively
the
acquisition
of
Italian
literature,
they
may
read
and
commit
to
memory
without
fear
of
an
insidious
meaning
beneath
the
polished
verse,
or
the
prose
which
has
all
the
charm
of
poetry.
Spanish
literature
will
require
the
same
judicious
pruning
which
is
necessary
in
French
and
German,
but
of
all
languages,
it
is
the
most
musical
for
speech,
and
singing.
A
lady
in
society
must,
if
she
would
not
grow
utterly
weary
in
company,
know
how
to
dance.
It
has
been
the
practice
among
many
excellent
people
to
represent
the
ball
room
as
a
"pitfall
covered
with
flowers;"
a
sheet
of
breaking
ice;
above,
all
gayety
and
motion;
below,
all
darkness
and
danger.
It
may
be
that
to
some
minds
the
ball
room
may
be
replete
with
temptations;
but
there
are
minds
which
find
temptations
everywhere.
The
innocent
may
be
innocent,
nay,
the
pious
may
feel
devout,
even
in
a
ball
room.
There
is
nothing
immoral
or
wrong
in
dancing;
it
is
the
tendency
of
youth
to
dance--it
is
the
first
effort
of
a
child--the
first
natural
recreation.
It
seems
so
natural
that
I
confess
I
am
always
doubtful
of
the
sincerity
of
those
young
ladies
who
profess
to
dislike
the
ball
room.
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