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Article A SKETCH FROM COLOGNE, WITH A PEEP INTO HOLLAND. ← Page 11 of 14 →
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A Sketch From Cologne, With A Peep Into Holland.
another country , we found groups of ladies and gentlemen in the Avell-lit public room ; a few uniforms Avere sprinkled among the pretty toilettes—for in Holland , though not generally in Belgium , the military officers are held to be gentlemen—and an old lady in the coiffure of Friesland made a striking figure in the throng . She must have been a beauty in her youthand
, perhaps could not forget it . Her cap was of rich lace , and under it a band of pure gold bound her head ; a head-stall—so to speak—of gold and diamonds uniting the circlet on either side .
The peasants of Fries , who are very wealthy , have these headdresses ; some of them are plain , some of great A'alue , and set Avith jewels ; they are hen-looms , passing from mother to eldest daughter through succeeding generations . A Friesland woman en grande toilette , seated at the door of a temple or paA * ilion on a fair-day , is a pleasant object , worth going some miles to see .
We left Arnheim Avell impressed with otu * first peep into Holland : the pretty houses , so exquisitely clean , ancl gay with flowers , the sweet-faced , gentle-A * oicecl women , the merry children , the family groups , the rich pastures and laden wains , the villas and chateaux , with their elegant pleasure-grounds ; all Avere totally unlike what we had expected to see in a land
described as so formal and unattractive , that some of our friends hacl prepared us for disappointment by repeating Voltaire ' s adieu to " canards , canaille , and caneaux ! " But Voltaire hacl no taste for morality and industry , and—Holland had no taste for Voltaire .
To the Enghsh traveller , Arnheim is m a manner hallowed from being associated Avith the dying hours of Sir Philip Sidney . We think of him , first , as the talented Shrewsbury boy ; next , as the elegant scholar of Christchurch ; then , -with keener interest , as the young tourist , taking refuge from the wrath which incited the massacre of St . Bartholomew , and even in this hom *
of awe and peril doing homage to his first love , the daughter of the English ambassador at Paris , Sir Francis Walsingham , who gave him shelter in this political strait . The scholar , the gentleman , the courtier , the soldier , the statesman , the poet , the lover , each phase of character was filled gracefully in its turn by the " gallant Sidney . " Queen
Elizabeth croAvned his muse Avith her applauding Avreath : did she love him for his uncle Leicester's sake ? She even listened to his " Remonstrance" against her proposed marriage with Henry of Anjou ; but was obliged to yield to public opinion when Sidney ' s spirit betrayed him into a humour , Avhich led to that quarrel at tennis Avith Lord Oxford , and for ivhich Sir Philip
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A Sketch From Cologne, With A Peep Into Holland.
another country , we found groups of ladies and gentlemen in the Avell-lit public room ; a few uniforms Avere sprinkled among the pretty toilettes—for in Holland , though not generally in Belgium , the military officers are held to be gentlemen—and an old lady in the coiffure of Friesland made a striking figure in the throng . She must have been a beauty in her youthand
, perhaps could not forget it . Her cap was of rich lace , and under it a band of pure gold bound her head ; a head-stall—so to speak—of gold and diamonds uniting the circlet on either side .
The peasants of Fries , who are very wealthy , have these headdresses ; some of them are plain , some of great A'alue , and set Avith jewels ; they are hen-looms , passing from mother to eldest daughter through succeeding generations . A Friesland woman en grande toilette , seated at the door of a temple or paA * ilion on a fair-day , is a pleasant object , worth going some miles to see .
We left Arnheim Avell impressed with otu * first peep into Holland : the pretty houses , so exquisitely clean , ancl gay with flowers , the sweet-faced , gentle-A * oicecl women , the merry children , the family groups , the rich pastures and laden wains , the villas and chateaux , with their elegant pleasure-grounds ; all Avere totally unlike what we had expected to see in a land
described as so formal and unattractive , that some of our friends hacl prepared us for disappointment by repeating Voltaire ' s adieu to " canards , canaille , and caneaux ! " But Voltaire hacl no taste for morality and industry , and—Holland had no taste for Voltaire .
To the Enghsh traveller , Arnheim is m a manner hallowed from being associated Avith the dying hours of Sir Philip Sidney . We think of him , first , as the talented Shrewsbury boy ; next , as the elegant scholar of Christchurch ; then , -with keener interest , as the young tourist , taking refuge from the wrath which incited the massacre of St . Bartholomew , and even in this hom *
of awe and peril doing homage to his first love , the daughter of the English ambassador at Paris , Sir Francis Walsingham , who gave him shelter in this political strait . The scholar , the gentleman , the courtier , the soldier , the statesman , the poet , the lover , each phase of character was filled gracefully in its turn by the " gallant Sidney . " Queen
Elizabeth croAvned his muse Avith her applauding Avreath : did she love him for his uncle Leicester's sake ? She even listened to his " Remonstrance" against her proposed marriage with Henry of Anjou ; but was obliged to yield to public opinion when Sidney ' s spirit betrayed him into a humour , Avhich led to that quarrel at tennis Avith Lord Oxford , and for ivhich Sir Philip