Modern Frenchmen: Five BiographiesRoberts brothers, 1878 - 422 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 176 - I wist, all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Pàgina 359 - ... un grand panache de vapeur éclairé par les reflets rouges de la lave. Toutes les dix ou quinze secondes, le cratère vomissait un immense plumet noir foncé qui s'élevait comme un arbre colossal et retombait en cendres. Du milieu de ce jet noir sautaient des pierres enflammées qui montaient à une assez grande hauteur et retombaient en roulant sur les flancs du petit cône ; c'était en grand un bouquet de feu d'artifice partant avec un vacarme proportionné à sa taille. Nous sommes restés...
Pàgina 280 - It is a great happiness to form a sincere friendship with a woman ; but a friendship among persons of different sexes rarely or ever takes place in this country. The austerity of our manners hardly admits of such a connection ; — compatible with the most perfect innocence, and a source of the highest possible delight to those who are fortunate enough to form it.
Pàgina 140 - There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay ; Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past. Then the few whose spirits float above the wreck of...
Pàgina 378 - Or stretch'd on the beach, or our saddles spread As a pillow beneath the resting head, Fresh we woke upon the morrow : All our thoughts and words had scope, We had health, and we had hope...
Pàgina 261 - last week a sense of malediction was upon me, around me, and in me. I owe that to Lord Byron. I read * Manfred' twice. Never in my whole life did reading crush me like that. It has made me ill. On Sunday, I went to see the sunset, and it seemed menacing like the infernal flames. I went into a church where the faithful were peacefully singing the Halleluiah of the Resurrection. Leaning against a column, I watched them with disdain and envy. In the evening, I dined with E , and had to talk with Madame...
Pàgina 359 - Au-dessus de nos têtes s'étendait un grand panache de vapeur éclairé par les reflets rouges de la lave. Toutes les dix ou quinze secondes, le cratère vomissait un immense plumet noir foncé qui s'élevait comme un arbre colossal et retombait en cendres. Du milieu de ce jet noir sautaient des pierres enflammées qui montaient à une assez grande hauteur et retombaient en roulant sur les flancs du petit cône ; c'était en grand un bouquet...
Pàgina 156 - I was ignorant of the low moral tone of what in England is called Society ; the habit of not indeed professing, but taking for granted in every mode of implication, that conduct is of course always directed towards low and petty objects, the absence of high feelings which manifests itself by sneering depreciation 'of all demonstrations of them, and by general abstinence, except among a few...
Pàgina 112 - A real Protestant is a person who has examined the evidences of religion for himself, and who accepts them because, after examination, he is satisfied of their genuineness and sufficiency.
Pàgina 100 - Cuvier laisse voir le sentiment de sa force; il est coupable d'orgueil, mais avec une certaine dignité; au lieu que M. de Humboldt, qui est le second homme du monde (du monde intellectuel, je veux dire), s'il n'est pas le premier, est malgré cela le plus fieffé charlatan que je connaisse.