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... continued to play rinforzando the overture of the French Revolution begun about fifty years before . The curtain rose . In place of the leader of the orchestra , there was Beaumarchais , the direct heir of Voltaire , who , for the ...
... continued to play rinforzando the overture of the French Revolution begun about fifty years before . The curtain rose . In place of the leader of the orchestra , there was Beaumarchais , the direct heir of Voltaire , who , for the ...
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... continued to dwell in the recesses of our youth , like a fond recollection , blended with the most touching things of Catholicism and of Love , like the distant sound of the organ . The present generation read it just after its first ...
... continued to dwell in the recesses of our youth , like a fond recollection , blended with the most touching things of Catholicism and of Love , like the distant sound of the organ . The present generation read it just after its first ...
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... continued suffer- ings , an asperity of temper , which never forsook him . non ignara mali is not always true . well as soften the character . The Misfortune may harden as M. de Chateaubriand was tall and thin . His nose was aquiline ...
... continued suffer- ings , an asperity of temper , which never forsook him . non ignara mali is not always true . well as soften the character . The Misfortune may harden as M. de Chateaubriand was tall and thin . His nose was aquiline ...
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... continued to cannonade the republican army ; Gesril threw himself into the sea , swam up to the vessel , told the English to cease their fire , and announced to them the misfortune and capitulation of the emigrants . The Eng- lish ...
... continued to cannonade the republican army ; Gesril threw himself into the sea , swam up to the vessel , told the English to cease their fire , and announced to them the misfortune and capitulation of the emigrants . The Eng- lish ...
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... continued to ad- vance . Gesril drew back : we placed ourselves at the end of the bridge , and began pelting them with stones . They threw themselves upon us , compelled us to take to our heels , and furnishing themselves with pebbles ...
... continued to ad- vance . Gesril drew back : we placed ourselves at the end of the bridge , and began pelting them with stones . They threw themselves upon us , compelled us to take to our heels , and furnishing themselves with pebbles ...
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Abbé Abbé Carron admiration appeared April till September arms beauty became Bedée Bretagne Breton Brittany brother Byron called Camille Desmoulins carriage castle charming château Chateaubriand Chevalier Combourg companions court daughter death destined Dieppe Dinan door Duke de Berry émigrés English exile eyes father feeling Fontanes forests formed France French gave Génie du Christianisme genius Gesril glory Guérande hand head heard heart honour horses idea Indian king lady land liberty lived London longer looked Lord Lord Byron Louis XVI Lucile Madame Madame de Sévigné Malesherbes Malo Memoirs midst mind Mirabeau misfortune mother nature never night noble Paris passed passion poet political present princes recollections remained Rennes Revolution sailors seen shore sister society solitude States-General thing Thionville thought tomb took tower trees voice walk waves whilst woman woods young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 104 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Página 120 - Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields beloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Página 58 - Lo pane altrui, e com' è duro calle Lo scendere e 'I salir per l' altrui scale. E quel che più ti graverà le spalle Sarà la compagnia malvagia e scempia, Con la qual tu cadrai in questa valle, Che tutta ingrata, tutta matta ed empia Si farà contra te; ma poco appresso Ella, non tu, n'avrà rossa la tempiri. Di sua bestialitate il suo processo Farà la pruova , si ch' a te fia bello Averti fatta parte per te stesso.
Página 123 - Fly from the French Constitution.'" [Mr. Fox here whispered, that "there was no loss of friendship."] Mr. Burke said, "Yes, there was a loss of friendship; — he knew the price of his conduct; — he had done his duty at the price of his friend ; — their friendship was at an end.
Página 111 - Combourg, the country has a savage aspect; husbandry not much further advanced, at least in skill, than among the Hurons, which appears incredible amidst inclosures; the people almost as wild as their country, and their town of Combourg one of the most brutal filthy places that can be seen...
Página 58 - Thus, thus, quoth Forrest, girdling one another Within their alabaster, innocent arms : Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, Which, in their summer beauty, kissed each other. A book of prayers on their pillow lay ; Which once...
Página 276 - France, with one stroke of the pen, found herself stripped of those boundless possessions which she had acquired at the cost of so much heroic blood and so much treasure, and which extended in one proud, uninterrupted line, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi. The...
Página 23 - Chateaubriand, pourquoi fuir ta patrie, Fuir son amour, notre encens et nos soins? N'entends-tu pas la France qui s'écrie: Mon beau ciel pleure une étoile de moins!
Página 250 - ... dictator, be any other than a clown, urging his oxen with the goad, and holding the handle of the plough ? But when I went to deliver my letter of recommendation to this great man, I found in him the simplicity of the old Roman. " A small house in the English style, resembling the neighbouring houses, was the palace of the president of the United States : no guards, nor even footmen. I knocked : a servant girl opened the door. I inquired if the General was at home ; she answered, that he was....
Página 261 - ... lay with one end on the ground and the other leaning against the gable as the men had left it when work ceased for the week. Now the two young house-carls took a start and ran up the sloping beam, to see how high up they could go. Presently the other men joined in, even the master himself. The game went merrily, with laughter and shouts whenever one of the men had...