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    234 ELIZABETH VON KECKE.

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    memorial which a memoir the of of utmost one him to " power also whom , thinking of she medicine felt it herself a could duty so to onl much le y ave alleviate indebted behin , d she . her wrote this

    A warmer climate being * now recommended , Elizabeth travelled into Italy , and was received with great honor , especially lorious at Rome works ,

    where around her her spirit as her was health as much was refreshed improved among by the the geni g al air she inhaled . Humours , of war reaching her in 1806 , she hastily set off should be inter

    homewards received cepted , but such , was hop a stopped ing shock " to from return by the the before French horrors the troop she passage s witnessed at Halle , during where the she - that all the

    four days she was compelled to remain in that city , p than hysical counteracted _advantage she The had Duke derived of from Gotha her offered Italian her tour an was asy more lum

    settled until farther at Dresden progress . where northward she should ent the be rest possible of her , and days she in finall the y sp

    midst of a limited , circle of friends , and died , full of years and Her

    honorsin the month of April , 1833 , aged seventy-seven . Travels into French , in Ital and y had her collected been published works appeared in 1815 , in and 1826 were . translated

    The esteem , in which Frau von Kecke was held , both at home and abroadbe gathered from the inion given of her by a

    dis-, may op tinguished Litteraire" foreigner " Frau , the von Abb Kecke e Denina was , in who literary in his Germany " La Prusse what says

    Vittoria The latter Colonna , noble , , was beautiful in lit , erary learned Ital , y and during illustrious an authoress the writers age of , was Leo of her the X .

    friend nation and of Ariosto period . , VarcM Frau all von , and Kecke all eminent the was the for friend their of works Goethe with ,

    NicolaiWielandand of Germans , - the out sam distinction , e oliteness , of country and kindness , creed , the or condition wife of the . She learned received bibliopole with

    Nicolaiof p the Jewish doctorHerzor the widow of Moses Menthe delssohn historian , ; and all the came poet to , the her , painter and were , , the all musician honored , the by her litterateur . She ,

    was a poetess , , and her verses , are found in German collections , as the sonnets of Vittoria Colonna are gathered among lected Italian bud poems which . "

    And this noble fruit had matured out of the neg , systematic at first owed repression its only , culture her heart to a yet femal glowed e slave throug . Long h life crushed with the by benevolence and

    warmest affections , and overflowed in universal the entang amiabilit loftiest lement y . aims "With in the naturall every frivolities incitem soft and of ent the tender to gay vanit even world y , she to to excess rose aspire , from she after yet an y

    ; , views superstition cession steeled and of herself made de and ep to sorrows her mysticism bear and with into , attained losses the unyielding clearest ; and the throug fortitude largest light of h and truth all a life the most . -long errors liberal suc of - way

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    234 Elizabeth Von Kecke.

    234 ELIZABETH VON KECKE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/18/