Littell's Living Age, Volume 23Living Age Company Incorporated, 1849 |
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... 14 cents . The volumes are published quarterly , each volume containing as much matter as a quarterly review gives in eighteen months . From Fraser's Magazine . MADAME RÉCAMIER . THE position occupied CONTENTS OF No. 282 .
... 14 cents . The volumes are published quarterly , each volume containing as much matter as a quarterly review gives in eighteen months . From Fraser's Magazine . MADAME RÉCAMIER . THE position occupied CONTENTS OF No. 282 .
Page 97
... RÉCAMIER . THE position occupied by Madame Récamier in French society , and the influence which she exer- cised over it , entitle her to be considered as one of the most remarkable persons of our age . At the same time , to those who ...
... RÉCAMIER . THE position occupied by Madame Récamier in French society , and the influence which she exer- cised over it , entitle her to be considered as one of the most remarkable persons of our age . At the same time , to those who ...
Page 98
... Récamier determined once more to frequent Mme . Récamier's house was far from being the way to obtain his favor ; indeed , some courage was needed to carry individuals through such an ordeal , as the following anecdote will show ...
... Récamier determined once more to frequent Mme . Récamier's house was far from being the way to obtain his favor ; indeed , some courage was needed to carry individuals through such an ordeal , as the following anecdote will show ...
Page 99
... Récamier's features , so much as to embody the lineaments of her soul . Such is his bust of Beatrice . After satisfying her passionate and refined love of art at Rome , Mme . Récamier determined to visit Naples . She arrived there at ...
... Récamier's features , so much as to embody the lineaments of her soul . Such is his bust of Beatrice . After satisfying her passionate and refined love of art at Rome , Mme . Récamier determined to visit Naples . She arrived there at ...
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... Récamier was a French woman , and that Paris , and not London , was the scene of her dominion . I question if a woman with all her gifts and graces ( and as many more as imagination can add to them ) could ever obtain an equal influence ...
... Récamier was a French woman , and that Paris , and not London , was the scene of her dominion . I question if a woman with all her gifts and graces ( and as many more as imagination can add to them ) could ever obtain an equal influence ...
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Page 371 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 398 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 393 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 371 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Page 399 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Page 378 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Page 399 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Page 139 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 378 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 398 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...