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THE FEMALE SCULPTOR. 

 BY DR. EPPS. 



AUTHOR or "HORA PHBENOLOOICJB. ' 



There are some persons whom emulation inflames in a way, so 

 to speak, spontaneous. There are some privileged souls who, in 

 situations the most unfavourable, shed forth, nevertheless, the 

 brightest flashes of genius, and arrive at the most extraordinary 

 successes. Witness the poor servant of whom Dr. Corona one day 

 told us the interesting history. 



This physician, now dead, was himself a very good scholar. He 

 had been unfortunate on account of some political events, and was 

 obliged to leave Italy, the place of his birth. He took refuge at 

 Paris, where it was known how to appreciate his merit and talents, 

 which distinguished him in the exercise of his profession. Corona 

 was particularly remarkable in the pointedness of his anecdotes, and 

 by the vast erudition he had acquired. Upon any subject whereon 

 he was interrogated, his steady memory served him so well, that he 

 enchanted his hearers. This, which he related to us one night, 

 when met together to enjoy the channs of his conversation, may 

 serve as an example. 



One of the most famous sculptors of Rome had a servant of the 

 name of Maria. This person, bom in a miserable cottage, of poor 

 and obscure parents, nevertheless made herself remarkable by the 

 elegance of her manners and the dignity of her gait. Picture to 

 yourself a young villager, with a physiognomy more striking than 

 beautiful, — an extraordinary vivacity in her look, — modest more- 

 over,; — ardently desirous of instruction, — hearing everything and 

 forgetting nothing, — busily attending to domestic duties in order 

 afterwards to give herself to pinsuits more worthy, — always pensive — 

 and passing from the silence of reverie to the bursts of enthusiasm, — 

 inaccessible, besides, to all the weaknesses of coquetry and of vanity, 

 and you \vill have a true idea of this astonishing woman, whose name 

 was made to be the subject of historj'. It is affinned, that by hearing, 



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