The BastilleChapman and Hall, 1848 |
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Page 231 - ... night, taking his ease at his inn; the King of Siam's cannon also lay, knowing nothing of him, for a hundred years. Yet now, at the right instant, they have got together, and discourse eloquent music. For, hearing what was toward, Georget sprang from the Brest Diligence, and ran. Gardes Franchises also will be here, with real artillery: were not the walls so thick!
Page 230 - Mounted, some say, on the roof of the guardroom, some ' on bayonets stuck into joints of the wall/ Louis Tournay smites, brave Aubin Bonnemere (also an old soldier) seconding him : the chain yields, breaks ; the huge Drawbridge slams down, thundering (avec fracas). Glorious : and yet, alas, it is still but the outworks. The Eight grim Towers, with their...
Page 232 - These wave their Townflag in the arched Gateway ; and stand, rolling their drum ; but to no purpose. In such Crack of Doom, De Launay cannot hear them, dare not believe them : they return, with justified rage, the whew of lead still singing in their ears. What to do ? The Firemen are here, squirting with their fire-pumps on the Invalides cannon, to wet the touchholes ; they unfortunately cannot squirt so high ; but produce only clouds of spray.
Page 237 - O evening sun of July, how, at this hour, thy beams fall slant on reapers amid peaceful woody fields ; on old women spinning in cottages ; on ships far out in the silent main ; on Balls at the Orangerie of Versailles, where high-rouged Dames of the Palace are even now dancing with doublejacketed Hussar-Officers; — and also on this roaring Hellporch of a...
Page 84 - And mark what suavity of manners ! A bland smile distinguishes our Controller : to all men he listens with an air of interest, nay of anticipation ; makes their own wish clear to themselves, and grants it ; or at least, grants conditional promise of it. " I fear this is a matter of difficulty," said her Majesty. — " Madame," answered the Controller, " if it is but difficult, it is done ; if it is impossible, it shall be done (se fera).
Page 171 - ... persons, who could foresee in him an excellent man of business, happily quite free from genius. The Bishop, therefore, taking counsel, appoints him Judge of his diocese ; and he faithfully does justice to the people : till behold, one day, a culprit comes whose crime merits hanging ; and the strict-minded Max must abdicate, for his conscience will not permit the dooming of any son of Adam to die.
Page 25 - ... at thy very life-breath, and will extinguish it. Thou, whose whole existence hitherto was a chimera and scenic show, at length becomest a reality: sumptuous Versailles bursts asunder, like a dream, into void Immensity; Time is done, and all the scaffolding of Time falls wrecked with hideous clangour round thy soul: the pale Kingdoms yawn open; there must thou enter, naked, all unking'd, and await what is appointed thee! Unhappy man, there as thou turnest, in dull agony, on thy bed of weariness,...
Page 50 - Where thou findest a Lie that is oppressing thee, extinguish it. Lies exist there only to be extinguished ; they wait and cry earnestly for extinction. Think well, meanwhile, in what spirit thou wilt do it : not with hatred, with headlong selfish violence ; but in clearness of heart, with holy zeal, gently, almost with pity. Thou wouldst not replace such extinct Lie by a new Lie, which a new Injustice of thy own were ; the parent of still other Lies ? Whereby the latter end of that business were...
Page 167 - Nevertheless he was not dead: he awoke to breath, and miraculous surgery; — for Gabriel was yet to be. With his...
Page 49 - Meanwhile it is singular how long the rotten will hold together, provided you do not handle it roughly. For whole generations it continues standing, 'with a ghastly affectation of life...