Sketches of Eminent Statesmen and Writers: With Other Essays, Volume 2J. Murray, 1880 - Authors |
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... tion to it , for she was not married till she was in her nineteenth year . She was brought out at Paris ( to use her own expression ) de bonne heure ; and the sensation she made in the highest circles was in accordance with her personal ...
... tion to it , for she was not married till she was in her nineteenth year . She was brought out at Paris ( to use her own expression ) de bonne heure ; and the sensation she made in the highest circles was in accordance with her personal ...
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... tion was conferred upon him , of being universally pronounced a safe man , with whom a husband or father might trust the prettiest wife or daughter without risk . This is the very part which Ménage was unwilling to play . He felt like ...
... tion was conferred upon him , of being universally pronounced a safe man , with whom a husband or father might trust the prettiest wife or daughter without risk . This is the very part which Ménage was unwilling to play . He felt like ...
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... tion and at length took the form of his " Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules . " It was originally intended only for a small circle of friends ; but , as almost always happens in such cases , he was betrayed by his vanity into showing it to ...
... tion and at length took the form of his " Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules . " It was originally intended only for a small circle of friends ; but , as almost always happens in such cases , he was betrayed by his vanity into showing it to ...
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... tion ? The King burst out laughing , and told him , ' Villarceaux , you and I are too old to meddle with damsels of fifteen . ' " By common consent , the belle Madelonne , with all her beauty , cultivation and intelligence , was an ...
... tion ? The King burst out laughing , and told him , ' Villarceaux , you and I are too old to meddle with damsels of fifteen . ' " By common consent , the belle Madelonne , with all her beauty , cultivation and intelligence , was an ...
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... tion , refused to attend his court a second time . But one of the darkest catastrophes in English history was brought about by the opposite behaviour of a wife . When Athelwald , says Hume , entreated Elfrida to conceal her beauty from ...
... tion , refused to attend his court a second time . But one of the darkest catastrophes in English history was brought about by the opposite behaviour of a wife . When Athelwald , says Hume , entreated Elfrida to conceal her beauty from ...
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Page 55 - Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 319 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 319 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free. And many a tyrant since : their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts; — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Page 322 - Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, ye Whose agonies are evils of a day ! — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.
Page 146 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 324 - Next Anger rush'd ; his eyes on fire, In lightnings own'd his secret stings : In one rude clash, he struck the lyre, And swept with hurried hand the...
Page 291 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Page 344 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King To break the heathen and uphold the Christ...
Page 328 - There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing-space ; I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
Page 344 - To lead sweet lives in purest chastity. To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.