Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: To which are Added a Few Poems, Volume 1J. Munroe, 1845 |
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... present purpose to say that Madame de Sévigné , without intending to become an author , has , in fact , produced one of the most agreeable and really valuable books that have ever been written . Her letters are not sermons , or essays ...
... present purpose to say that Madame de Sévigné , without intending to become an author , has , in fact , produced one of the most agreeable and really valuable books that have ever been written . Her letters are not sermons , or essays ...
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... present day , however , these letters , though highly agreeable as a picture of domestic life in France at the period when they were written , are , from the extraordinary importance of that period , still more valuable , as a record of ...
... present day , however , these letters , though highly agreeable as a picture of domestic life in France at the period when they were written , are , from the extraordinary importance of that period , still more valuable , as a record of ...
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... present at the trial of Fouquet , and gives in several letters a minute and highly interesting account of the proceedings . Fouquet passed a number of years in close confinement in the fortress of Pignerol ; was finally released on ...
... present at the trial of Fouquet , and gives in several letters a minute and highly interesting account of the proceedings . Fouquet passed a number of years in close confinement in the fortress of Pignerol ; was finally released on ...
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... present , burst into a loud fit of laugh- ter , and it was sometime before order could be restored . Madame de Sévigné does full justice on various occa- sions to Bossuet . The magnificent funeral oration which he delivered upon the ...
... present , burst into a loud fit of laugh- ter , and it was sometime before order could be restored . Madame de Sévigné does full justice on various occa- sions to Bossuet . The magnificent funeral oration which he delivered upon the ...
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... , which could not perhaps have been hatched under the fontanges of all the ladies present . I can * Madame de Fontanges had given her name to a particular head - dress . give you no idea of the extreme beauty of the MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ . 21.
... , which could not perhaps have been hatched under the fontanges of all the ladies present . I can * Madame de Fontanges had given her name to a particular head - dress . give you no idea of the extreme beauty of the MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ . 21.
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Page 207 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 207 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 210 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 404 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 460 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 318 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 407 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Page 317 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.
Page 241 - Greek mythology, a. monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull.
Page 248 - WHILE, lost to all his former mirth, Britannia's genius bends to earth, And mourns the fatal day : While stain'd with blood he strives to tear Unseemly from his sea-green hair...