{"id":632,"date":"2016-05-13T22:19:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T02:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=632"},"modified":"2017-01-01T18:18:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T23:18:23","slug":"suid186","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Owenson, <i>The Novice of Saint Dominick<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aei-root\" lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- suid=186 --><\/p>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta\">\n<dt>Performer Name:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Venue:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Date:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Author:<\/dt>\n<dd> Owenson, Miss [Sydney]<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Written:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> English<\/dd>\n<dt>Publication Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> The Novice of Saint Dominick<\/dd>\n<dt>Article Title:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Numbers:<\/dt>\n<dd> 3:261; 4:78-9<\/dd>\n<dt>Additional Info:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> 3rd edition<\/dd>\n<dt>Publisher:<\/dt>\n<dd> Phillips<\/dd>\n<dt>Place of Publication:<\/dt>\n<dd> London<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Published:<\/dt>\n<dd> 1808<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"aei-blockquote\">\n<p>[3: 261] Animated by applause, stimulated by success, her genius seemed almost to rise above itself; the happiest, the most original poetic flights, soon obtained her a distinguished rank among the first <i>improvisatori<\/i> of fashion.  The brilliancy of her repartees, and the playful vein of her frolic humour, an early initiation into the attic society of the <i>humoristi<\/i>, and her exquisite musical skill, with the addition of her extraordinary vocal powers, and her chaste and correct taste in painting and sculpture, obtained her the flattering title of the &apos;Muse of the Arno&apos;.<\/p>\n<p>[4: 78] De Servin was an excellent <i>improvisatore<\/i>: he took up a lute, and after striking a few chords, sung an [79] address to his charming hostess, in which the strongest flattery was chastened by the most delicate taste.<\/p>\n<p>[High praise follows, and De Servin passes the lute to the rake De Sancy, who &quot;sung an extempore replication to his strains&quot; (4: 79).]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"aei-blocktext\">\n&nbsp;\n    <\/div>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta-unimportant\">\n<dt>Collected by:<\/dt>\n<dd> AE<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The narrator describes excellent improvisatory performances by Imogen and De Servin, who are fictional characters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}