Memoirs of Madame de Staël, and of Madame Roland. ...C. S. Francis & Company, 1847 - Всего страниц: 241 |
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Стр. 103 - Oh, that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment— born and dying With the blest tone which made me ! Enter from below a CHAMOIS HUNTER CHAMOIS HUNTER.
Стр. 7 - Curchod were the theme of universal applause. The report of such a prodigy awakened my curiosity ; I saw and loved. I found her learned without pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance.
Стр. 91 - Corinne is, of course, what all mothers must be — but will, I venture to prophesy, do what few mothers could — write an Essay upon it. She cannot exist without a grievance — and somebody to see, or read, how much grief becomes her.
Стр. 100 - ... abandon in what she said, than in what she wrote ; while speaking, the spontaneous inspiration was no labour, but all pleasure ; conscious of extraordinary powers, she gave herself up to the present enjoyment of the good things and the deep things flowing in a full stream from her own well-stored mind and luxuriant fancy. The inspiration was pleasure — the pleasure was inspiration ; and without precisely intending it, she was, every evening of her life, in a circle of company, the very Corinne...
Стр. 97 - I was obliged to banish her from court. At Geneva she became very intimate with my brother Joseph, whom she gained by her conversation and writings. When I returned from Elba, she sent her son to be pre•sented to me, on purpose to ask payment of two millions, which her father...
Стр. 40 - ... notions of the wisdom of private life, we think her both unfortunate and erroneous. She makes passions and high sensibilities a great deal too indispensable ; and varnishes over all her pictures too uniformly with the glare of an extravagant or affected enthusiasm. She represents men, in short, as a great deal more unhappy, more depraved, and more energetic, than they are — and seems to respect them the more for it. In her politics she is far more unexceptionable. She is everywhere the warm...
Стр. 235 - Interior, for having wickedly and designedly aided and assisted in the conspiracy which existed against the unity and indivisibility of the Republic, against the liberty and safety of the French people, by assembling, at her house, in secret council, the principal chiefs of that conspiracy, and by keeping up a correspondence tending to facilitate their treasonable designs. The tribunal, having heard the public accuser deliver his reasons concerning the application of the law, condemns Jane Mary Phlippon,...
Стр. 54 - He was frequently telling me that my letters and conversation were all that kept up his connection with the world. His active and penetrating mind excited me to think, for the sake of the pleasure of talking to him. If I observed, it was to convey my impressions to him ; if I listened, it was to repeat to him.
Стр. 231 - ... my opinions. I know that a Roman lady was sent to the scaffold for lamenting the death of her son. I know that in times of delusion and party rage, he who dares avow himself the friend of the proscribed, exposes himself to their fate. But I despise death ; I never feared any thing but guilt, and I will not purchase life at the expense of a base subterfuge.
Стр. 246 - I was the friend of men who have been proscribed and immolated by delusion, and the hatred of jealous mediocrity. It is necessary that I should perish in my turn, because it is a rule with tyranny to sacrifice those whom it has grievously oppressed, and to annihilate the very witnesses of its misdeeds.