 ... since I entered France, I bowed to the majesty of the people, and respected the propriety of behaviour so perfectly in unison with my own feelings. I can scarcely tell you why, but an association of ideas made the tears flow insensibly from my eyes,...  Mary Wollstonecraft: Letters to Imlay - Page xxxivby Mary Wollstonecraft - 1879 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - Women - 1798 - 414 pages
...a hackney coach, going to meet death, where fo many of his race have triumphed. My fancy inftantly brought Louis XIV before me, entering the capital with all his pomp, after one of the viftories moft flattering to his pride, only to fee the funfhine of profperity overfhadowed by the... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - Authors, English - 1858 - 434 pages
...flow insensibly from my eyes, when I saw Louis sitting, with more dignity than I expected from nis character, in a hackney coach, going to meet death...capital with all his pomp, after one of the victories mort flattering to his pride, only to see the sunshine of prosperity overshadowed by the sublime gloom... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - Authors, English - 1858 - 426 pages
...ideas made the tears flow insensibly from my eyes, when I saw Louis sitting, with more dignity than I expected from his character, in a hackney coach, going to meet death where so many of hia race have triumphed. My fancy instantly brought Louis XIV. before me, entering the capital with... | |
 | Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough - Authors, English - 1898 - 286 pages
...ideas made the tears flow insensibly from my eyes, when I saw Louis sitting, with more dignity than I expected from his character, in a hackney coach, going...death, where so many of his race have triumphed.'" With eager interest and quick sympathies, she watched to see what use Frenchmen would make of their... | |
 | Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough - Authors, English - 1898 - 258 pages
...ideas made the tears flow insensibly from my eyes, when I saw Louis sitting, with more dignity than I expected from his character, in a hackney coach, going to meet death, where so many of his race 1 The Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, p. 4. have triumphed."1 With eager interest and... | |
 | Charles Kegan Paul - Biography - 1899 - 408 pages
...ideas made the tears flow insensibly from my eyes, when I saw Louis, sitting with more dignity than I expected from his character, in a hackney coach, going...meet death where so many of his race have triumphed." As I read this I seemed to have heard it all before, and then recollected what Mr. Staples had told... | |
 | Ada De la Mare Ingpen - English letters - 1909 - 484 pages
...ideas made the tears flow insensibly from my eyes, when I saw Louis sitting, with more dignity than I expected from his character, in a hackney coach, going...flattering to his pride, only to see the sunshine of his prosperity overshadowed by the sublime gloom of misery. I have been alone ever since ; and, though... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 412 pages
...nicety some hundred years later by Mary Wollstonecraft, as she commented on Louis XVI going to trial: "My fancy instantly brought Louis XIV before me, entering...of prosperity overshadowed by the sublime gloom of misery."25 The Revocation, signed just two years after Colbert's death in September 1683, was a disastrous... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - Political Science - 1992 - 394 pages
...ideas made the tears flow insensibly from my eyes, when I saw Louis sitting, with more dignity than I expected from his character, in a hackney coach going to meet death. (Letters 1792:227) In fact he was going to his trial, not his death. But the day's events filled Wollstonecraft... | |
 | Diane Jacobs - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 336 pages
...ideas made the tears flow insensibly from my eyes, when I saw Louis sitting, with more dignity than I expected from his character, in a hackney coach going...prosperity overshadowed by the sublime gloom of misery. 20 This "gloom of misery" speaks to the beleaguered state of Paris under the rule of a self-serving... | |
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