A negative sense of compensation, of pleasure in the foreign society to which she could now devote herself; of satisfaction in the miniature copy of her former Parisian salon which she could arrange in her florentine house; of comfort in a gently bustling, unconcerned, cheerful old age; negative feelings which, perhaps as a result of their very repression, seem little by little to have turned to a positive feeling, a positive aversion for the past which she refused to regret, a positive dislike to the memory of the man whom she could no longer love.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
The Count and Countess of Albany, cured by this time of any affectation of royalty, had gradually got domesticated in florentine society.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
Your modern theorist could hardly express his operatic creed with greater felicity than the florentine noble, Ottavio Rinuccini, and the whole quotation breathes in its quaint phraseology, the spirit of love for all that is new and beautiful in Art, which gave Italy her hegemony amongst other nations.
"The Operatic Problem"
William Johnson Galloway