New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volumen130Henry Colburn, 1864 |
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... Madame de Florennes , however , was a common - place person , with no elevation of mind , and not at all intellectual like her son and daughter . She was quite a woman of the world , strict in observing all les bien- séances of society ...
... Madame de Florennes , however , was a common - place person , with no elevation of mind , and not at all intellectual like her son and daughter . She was quite a woman of the world , strict in observing all les bien- séances of society ...
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... Madame de Florennes , who was not blessed with a patient disposition , very fidgety , and much inclined to scold them for loitering , as they had done , on the way up . But Alphonse half knelt so playfully at her feet to sue for pardon ...
... Madame de Florennes , who was not blessed with a patient disposition , very fidgety , and much inclined to scold them for loitering , as they had done , on the way up . But Alphonse half knelt so playfully at her feet to sue for pardon ...
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... Madame de Florennes . Happily , the power of committing such outrages on humanity no longer exists . Civilisation has tempered the awards of justice , and laws have checked the licence of unbridled passion and calculating villany . The ...
... Madame de Florennes . Happily , the power of committing such outrages on humanity no longer exists . Civilisation has tempered the awards of justice , and laws have checked the licence of unbridled passion and calculating villany . The ...
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... Madame de Florennes . How could I attempt to guide one so clever as Alphonse ? " " Your quiet good sense will sober him down when he gets into his flighty fits , and your cheerful conversation will enliven him when he falls into his ...
... Madame de Florennes . How could I attempt to guide one so clever as Alphonse ? " " Your quiet good sense will sober him down when he gets into his flighty fits , and your cheerful conversation will enliven him when he falls into his ...
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... Madame de Florennes , before returning to Louvain . It was a dull time of the year in the capital of Belgium , and Alphonse , so open to impressions , seemed to participate in the general ennui . He never took the trouble of concealing ...
... Madame de Florennes , before returning to Louvain . It was a dull time of the year in the capital of Belgium , and Alphonse , so open to impressions , seemed to participate in the general ennui . He never took the trouble of concealing ...
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Página 53 - She, who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys...
Página 295 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Página 418 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 315 - Felpham is a sweet place for study, because it is more spiritual than London. Heaven opens here on all sides her golden gates; her windows are not obstructed by vapours; voices of celestial inhabitants are more distinctly heard and their forms more distinctly seen; and my cottage is also a shadow of their houses.
Página 418 - His was the spell o'er hearts Which only Acting lends, — The youngest of the sister Arts, Where all their beauty blends : For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And Painting, mute and motionless. Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, IJlusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.
Página 425 - This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on — even as he himself neglects it. On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage ; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear — we are in his mind — we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of daughters and storms...
Página 425 - ... the Lear of Shakespeare cannot be acted. The contemptible machinery by which they mimic the storm which he goes out in, is not more inadequate to represent the horrors of the real elements, than any actor can be to represent Lear...
Página 294 - You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage ; and that all the walls, With painted imagery, had said at once, — Jesu preserve thee ! welcome, Bolingbroke ! Whilst he, from one side to the other turning, Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's neck, Bespake them thus, — I thank you, countrymen: And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along.
Página 421 - ... afraid of his own heart, and perfectly convince him that it is to stab it, to admit that worst of daggers, jealousy. Whoever reads in his closet this admirable scene, will find that he cannot, except he has as warm an imagination as...