Essays--ModernMacmillan and Company, 1883 - 334 pages |
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Page 272 - thou have asked aught else from any god— Whether with gleaming feet on earth he trod, Or thundered through the skies—aught else for share Of mortal good, than in thy soul to bear The growth of song, and feel the sweet unrest Of the world's spring-tide in thy conscious breast
Page 144 - avec sa sombre foule Attila, Aujourd'hui que le monde autour de toi s'écroule, Me voilà. " France, être sur ta claie à l'heure où l'on te traîne Aux cheveux, 0 ma mère, et porter mon anneau de ta chaîne, Je le veux ! " J'accours, puisque sur toi la bombe et la mitraille Ont crache. Tu me regarderas debout
Page 111 - a ses pleurs." One hardly knows which to admire most, the servile tears of the man of straw, or the poet's description of his own sublime smile. " Te voila," says the friend— " Te voili sous les pieds des envieux sans nombre Et des passants rieurs, Toi dont le front superbe accoutumait a I'ombre Les fronts infdrieurs
Page 145 - brille l'esperance, Pur flambeau, Pour prix de mon exil, tu m'accorderas, France, Un tombeau." M. Hugo's career since his return to Paris need be but briefly recounted. He remained in Paris during the siege, and his poems served as a rallying-point of patriotism, hatred of the Prussians, and hope of revenge.
Page 209 - Paul sceptique, naufragé, abandonné, trahi par les siens, seul, atteint du désenchantement de la vieillesse; il nous plairait que les écailles lui fussent tombées une seconde fois des yeux, et notre incrédulité douce aurait sa petite revanche si le plus dogmatique des
Page 199 - vous parcourûtes avec saint Patrice les cercles de ce monde que nos yeux ne savent plus voir. . . . Inutiles en ce monde, qui ne comprend que ce qui le dompte ou le sert, fuyons ensemble vers l'Eden splendide des joies de l'âme, celui-là même que nos saints virent dans leurs songes. Consolons-nous par nos chimères, par notre noblesse, par notre dédain. Qui
Page 263 - Vincy—which she had found it hard to sustain; such complacency of egoism being alien to her own habits of mind. But she laid no claim to any such natural magnanimity as could avert Casaubon's temptations of jealous vanity, of bitter resentment. No trace of these faults was
Page 324 - One murmuring shell he gathers from the sand— One little heart-flame sheltered in his hand. Yet through thine eyes he grants me clearest call And veriest touch of powers primordial That any hour-girt life may understand.
Page 328 - How is it that he finds it all so drear 1 How do I see his seeing, and how hear The name his bitter silence knows it by