Note 66 — Chapter I · THE WASHINGTON OF THE THIRTIES
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Story wrote the following lines to Miss Kemble:
“Genius and taste and feeling all combine To make each province of the drama thine. She first to Fancy’s bright creation gives The very form and soul; it breathes—it lives. She next with grace inimitable plays In every gesture, action, tone and gaze. The last to nature lends its subtlest art And warms and wins and thrills and melts the heart. Go, lovely woman, go. Enjoy thy fame. A second Kemble with a deathless name.” Life and Letters of Story, II, 117.