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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. XIV.
defiance to all the court, displaying his sharp white teeth
ready to devour the bishop at the first movement made
tp continue the ceremony: it required the authority of
the king himself to pacify the mastiff, and to induce
the frightened officials to proceed with the coronation.
And now with Frederic V. commences an era of
peculiar interest to England and the English visitor. The
portrait of this monarch* we have already commented
upon in the halls of the academy of Sorø; but here
side by side he hangs with his first queen, Louisa,f
daughter of George II. of England. Of a noble presence,
nez en Fair, her head thrown back, her portrait is the
ne plus ultra of regal dignity; conscious of her birth
as a daughter of England should be,t conscious of her
beauty as a woman, and perhaps of the admiration she
could never fail to command, she stands, beautiful,
beneficent in expression, void of all Russian hauteur
and German morgue. I returned twice to gaze upon
this portrait, and felt proud to see a princess of our
royal stock stand out as a constellation among the
coarser specimens of German royalty. “ She was as good
as she was beautiful,” observed the custodian: “ even
now, and she died in 1757, the peasants will still relate to
you anecdotes of her goodness. She gave ten thousand
crowns annually out of her pin-money in pensions alone.
And to think by what a bad woman she was replaced 1
It was a sad day for Denmark when she died.” There
are many souvenirs of Queen Louisa, besides two
snuffboxes with her miniature painted on a purple ground.
* Frederic V. in his youth bore a strong resemblance to his mother
Queen Madalena.
f The portraits of Queen Louisa as a girl, at the period of her
marriage, by Pond, are charming.
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