I´nez

of Cadiz, addre ed in Childe Harold , i. (after stanza 84). Nothing known of her. Inez (Donna) , mother of Don Juan. She trained her son according to prescribed rules with the strictest propriety, and designed to make him a model of all virtues. Her husband was Don José, whom she worried to death by her prudery and want of sympathy. Donna Inez was a “blue-stocking,” learned in all the sciences, her favorite one being “the mathematical.” She knew every European language, “a little Latin and le Greek.” In a word, she was “perfect as perfect is,” according to the standard of Mi Edge worth, Mrs. Trimmer, and Hannah More, but had “a great opinion of her own good qualities.” Like Tennyson’s “Maud,” this paragon of women was, to those who did not look too narrowly, “faultily faultle , icily regular, splendidly null.”—Bryon, Don Juan , i. 10-30 (1819).