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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Common terms and phrasesAdam amour angel anges Angleterre anglois avoient avoit chant charme choses ciel cœur créatures death deep Dieu divine earth Éden enfants Érasme esprits étoient étoit evil eyes femme fils first fleurs françois François Ier fruit génie gloire glory good goût great hand hast hath hâve Heaven Henri VIII hère high hommes j'ai jour know l'enfer l'homme langue latin Léon X less liberté life light liim liis littérature lord lord Byron Louis XIV love Luther ment Milton mœurs monde mort moyen âge n'étoit nations nature night nuit Paradis perdu parle passé pensées père peuple poète power premier présent prince protestantisme race religion reste Roméo et Juliette round saint Satan scène seem'd seest sent seroit serpent seul Shakespeare siècle soon spake stood terre thaï thèse things thou tion tliat tlie tlieir tliis tliy wilh work world Popular passagesPage 324 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Page 180 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage; and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Page 175 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : -° Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell; Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. Page 247 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Page 169 - Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rime both in longer and shorter works, as have also long since our best English tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another... Page 174 - Had risen or heaved his head, but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs, That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation, while he sought Evil to others... Page 253 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same. Page 184 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold. Page 189 - Belike through impotence or unaware, To give his enemies their wish, and end Them in his anger, whom his anger saves To punish endless? Wherefore cease we then? Page 174 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays... References from web pagesCHATEAUBRIAND, François-René de. Oeuvres complètes Itinéraire en 2 tomes - M. le Vicomte de Chateaubriand en vente ... Œuvres Chateaubriand : Oeuvres Completes De M. Le Vicomte De ... Bibliographic information
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