The peasantry. Society. ParisJ. Eastburn, 1817 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 42 - Oh! when shall I behold near the peasant's hovel in my own country, (Ireland,) other flowers than the bearded thistle, which there waves its lonely head and scatters its down upon every passing blast, or the scentless shamrock, the unprofitable blossom of the soil which creeps to be trodden upon, and is gathered only to be plunged in the inebriating draught, commemorating annually the fatal illusions of the people, and drowning in the same tide of madness their emblems and their wrongs."—i.
Pàgina 87 - On a pris soixante bourgeois : on commence demain à pendre. Cette Province est un bel exemple pour les autres, et sur-tout de respecter les Gouverneurs et les Gouvernantes ; de ne point leur dire d'injures, de ne point jeter de pierres dans leur jardin.
Pàgina 185 - There ought to be a system of manners in every nation, which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Pàgina 26 - ... state of the game in that country had nearly finished an intercourse so churlishly supported, when the waggoner, casting his eyes on the undress uniform of the Englishman, asked, in his turn, some questions as to the state of the English army, in terms sufficiently technical to betray his experience on the subject to which he had so abruptly adverted. The conversation became interesting : it turned on the war in Spain. The Englishman alluded to the « hot work" of a particular day. « Were you...
Pàgina 214 - The ready self-immolation of Madame La Valette, who knew not, and feared not, the results of the task she had undertaken ; and the sacrifices of Madame Bertrand, who so willingly gave up a world, where she still reigned supreme in the unproscribable influence of fashion and beauty, to follow her brave husband into a voluntary and dreary exile; these are splendid instances of conjugal virtue.
Pàgina 37 - ... any refreshment. One of the grooms of the chamber ventured to serve up some coffee, in his cabinet, by the hands of a child, whom Napoleon had occasionally distinguished by his notice. The emperor sat motionless, with his hands spread over his eyes.
Pàgina 77 - Truth wants no ornament ; religion is in itself an abstraction ; " the evidence of things unseen." It is ever to be regretted that the first religious ceremony, mentioned in holy writ, caused the first murder, in the first and only family then upon earth.' — ip 60. Our readers cannot have gone far in this work without being struck with the wonderful similarity of its sentiments and language to those of the Letters from Paris* reviewed in a former Number. Both exhibit the same slavish awe when speaking...
Pàgina vi - ... that public in a definite rank among authors, and in no undistinguished circle of society, alike as woman and as author, beyond the injury of malignant scurrility, whatever form it may assume, I would point out to those who have yet to struggle through the arduous and painful career that I have ran, the feebleness of unmerited calumny, and encourage those who receive with patience and resignation the awards of dignified and legitimate criticism, to disregard and contemn the anonymous slander...
Pàgina 173 - Hsping their critiques on patches and poetry, deciding with importance on a tragedy or a cosmetic, and claiming it as an equal distinction. to judge the merits of an epigram, or pronounce on the flounce of a petticoat. Of these " unfinished things" not a trace remains ; and I have seen the sudden appearance of a London
Pàgina 148 - Voyez ce vieux marquis Nous traiter en peuple conquis ; Son coursier décharné De loin chez nous l'a ramené. Vers son vieux castel Ce noble mortel Marche en brandissant Un sabre innocent. Chapeau bas ! Chapeau bas...