France in Eighteen Hundred and Two: Described in a Series of Contemporary LettersW. Heinemann, 1906 - 361 страница |
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Страница 121 - Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
Страница 221 - When the mind is like a room hung with black, and every corner of it crowded with the most horrid images imagination can create, this kind speechless goddess of a maid, Forgetfulness, is following us night and day with her opium wand, and gently touching first one, and then another, benumbs them into rest, and at last glides them away with the silence of a departing shadow.
Страница 219 - and who would have thought that we should meet in Paris?" He then enquired what motive had brought me here, and on my explaining myself, he observed with a smile of contempt, "They have shed blood enough for liberty, and now they have it in perfection. This is not a country for an honest man to live in; they do not understand anything at all of the principles of free government, and the best way is to leave them to themselves. You see they have conquered all Europe, only to make it more miserable...
Страница 227 - ... his numberless anecdotes of the American Indians, of the American War, of Franklin, Washington and even of his Majesty the King, of whom he told several curious anecdotes of humour and benevolence. His remarks on genius and taste can never be forgotten by those present.
Страница 224 - I found it impossible to join in their tremendous decrees, and useless and dangerous to oppose them. My having voted and spoken extensively, more so than any other member, against the execution of the King, had already fixed a mark upon me: neither dared any of my associates in the Convention to translate and speak in French for me anything I might have dared to have written.
Страница 224 - I used to find some relief by walking alone in the garden after dark, and cursing with hearty good will the authors of that terrible system that had turned the character of the Revolution I had been proud to defend.
Страница 224 - Englishmen, were arrested and detained in the guard-house, and that the section, (meaning those who represented and acted for the section) had sent him to ask me if I knew them, in which case they would be liberated. This matter being soon settled between us, he talked to me about the Revolution, and something about the ' Rights of Man' which he had read in English ; and at parting offered me in a polite and civil manner his services.
Страница 162 - J'aimasse mieux de bouche vous le dire. C'est par dangier, mon cruel adversaire Qui m'a tenu en ses mains longuement. En tous mes faits, je le trouve contraire Et plus se rit quand plus me voit dolent. Si je voulois raconter pleinement En cet escrit mon ennuyeux martyre, Trop long serois, pour ce certainement J'aimasse mieux de bouche vous le dire.
Страница 223 - ... and geese ; which for amusement we used to feed out of the parlor window on the ground floor. There were some hutches for rabbits and a sty with two pigs. Beyond, was a garden of more than an acre of ground, well laid out and stocked with excellent fruit trees.
Страница 225 - I saw the landlord going with the candle to the gate, which he opened, and a guard with muskets and fixed bayonets entered. I went to bed again, and made up my mind for prison, for I was then the only lodger. It was a guard to take up...