Princes, Public Men, and Pretty Women: Episodes in Real Life, Bind 1R. Bentley, 1864 |
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Side 272 - Where the live crimson, through the native white Soft shooting, o'er the face diffuses bloom, And every nameless grace ; the parted lip, Like the red rose-bud moist with morning dew, Breathing delight ; and, under flowing jet, Or sunny ringlets, or of circling brown, The neck slight shaded, and the swelling breast: The look resistless, piercing to the soul, And by the soul inform'd...
Side 272 - The neck slight shaded, and the swelling breast} The look resistless, piercing to the soul; And by the soul inform'd, when drest in love She sits high smiling in the conscious eye.
Side 54 - ... de la faire parvenir à sa femme. Au moment de mourir, il refusa le bandeau et la chaise qui lui furent offerts. «J'ai trop souvent « bravé la mort pour la craindre, dit-il à l'offi« cier chargé, de faire exécuter sa sentence.
Side 54 - ... que vous étiez. Que Dieu vous »bénisse ! Souvenez- vous que la »plus vive douleur que j'éprouve »dans mes derniers momens, est «de mourir loin de mes enfans. »Recevez ma bénédiction pater»nelle, mes larmes et mes ten»dres embrassemen». N'oubliez »pas votre malheureux père!
Side 298 - ... foi la supériorité politique de Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, et comment les autres l'exaltent avec enthousiasme. Louis-Napoléon est un homme supérieur, mais de cette supériorité qui se cache sous des dehors modestes. Sa vie est tout intérieure ; sa parole ne trahit pas son inspiration ; son geste ne traduit pas son audace ; son regard ne reflète pas son ardeur ; sa démarche ne révèle pas sa résolution. Toute sa nature morale est contenue en quelque sorte par sa nature physique. Il pense...
Side 5 - TTOW often have the memoirs of a woman, -*~^ the correspondence of her leisure hours, the small records of her diary, rendered clear some of the more obscure portions of history. Her light and careless hand lifts the curtain, drawn by deep-scheming politicians, over the hidden springs and motives that influence alike events and individuals.
Side vii - Having passed many years at foreign courts, and mingled much with men whose "names are famous in story"—and being connected by ties of friendship and consanguinity with several who were themselves leaders and actors in the stirring events which convulsed Europe for more than fifty years—/ have been enabled to gather, from eye-witnesses, a number of curious and interesting incidents.
Side 43 - Cut her interest in the salvation of her soul has lately so increased, that she haa been quite punctual in attending our religious meetings. Last Wednesday she was present at our weekly female prayer meeting ; and for the first time in her life, before any human being, she knelt down and prayed. It was a hard struggle, and I cannot but think it was the turning point in her conversion. Her prayer was simple and childlike, — like that of a new beginner, using the singular instead of the plural pronoun....