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... Century 352 Marquise de Rambouillet 352 • Her salons . 353 Mademoiselle de Scudéri 354 Early days of Madame Récamier 355 Her marriage . 356 Her remarkable beauty and grace 357 Her salons 357 Her popularity 357 Courted by Napoleon 358 ...
... Century 352 Marquise de Rambouillet 352 • Her salons . 353 Mademoiselle de Scudéri 354 Early days of Madame Récamier 355 Her marriage . 356 Her remarkable beauty and grace 357 Her salons 357 Her popularity 357 Courted by Napoleon 358 ...
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... Century Rise of Madame de Staël Her precocity .. Her powers of conversation 387 389 390 391 Her love of society 392 Her marriage 393 • Hatred of Napoleon . 395 Her banishment 396 Her residence in Switzerland . 396 Travels in Germany 397 ...
... Century Rise of Madame de Staël Her precocity .. Her powers of conversation 387 389 390 391 Her love of society 392 Her marriage 393 • Hatred of Napoleon . 395 Her banishment 396 Her residence in Switzerland . 396 Travels in Germany 397 ...
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... Century , the age of novelists 468 Scott , Fielding , Dickens , Thackeray 469 Bulwer ; women novelists 470 Charlotte Bronté , Harriet Beecher Stowe , George Eliot . 471 Early life of Marian Evans 472 Appearance , education , and ...
... Century , the age of novelists 468 Scott , Fielding , Dickens , Thackeray 469 Bulwer ; women novelists 470 Charlotte Bronté , Harriet Beecher Stowe , George Eliot . 471 Early life of Marian Evans 472 Appearance , education , and ...
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... this godless , yet brilliant , age that Cleo- patra appears upon the stage , having been born sixty- - nine years before Christ , about a century before 24 CLEOPATRA . Glory of Ancient Rome Paganism recognizes the body rather than the soul.
... this godless , yet brilliant , age that Cleo- patra appears upon the stage , having been born sixty- - nine years before Christ , about a century before 24 CLEOPATRA . Glory of Ancient Rome Paganism recognizes the body rather than the soul.
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John Lord. - nine years before Christ , about a century before the new revolutionary religion was proclaimed in Judea . Her father was a Ptolemy , and she succeeded him on the throne of Egypt when quite young , the last of a famous ...
John Lord. - nine years before Christ , about a century before the new revolutionary religion was proclaimed in Judea . Her father was a Ptolemy , and she succeeded him on the throne of Egypt when quite young , the last of a famous ...
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Page 33 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 103 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 497 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence: live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 79 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 34 - A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands , That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Page 41 - Queen, enfold me, Hush thy sobs and bow thine ear, Listen to the great heart-secrets Thou, and thou alone, must hear. Though my scarred and veteran legions Bear their eagles high no more, And my wrecked and scattered galleys Strew dark Actium's fatal shore; Though no glittering guards surround me, Prompt to do their master's will, I must perish like a Roman, Die the great Triumvir still.
Page 103 - You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand, Such as I am: though for myself alone I would not be ambitious in my wish To wish myself much better, yet for you I would be trebled twenty times myself, A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times More rich; That only to stand high in your account, I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends, Exceed account.
Page 498 - ... you must learn to fix your mind on that end, and not on what will happen to you because of it. And remember, if you were to choose something lower, and make it the rule of your life to seek your own pleasure and escape from what is disagreeable, calamity might come just the same; and it would be calamity falling on a base mind, which is the one form of sorrow that, has no balm in it, and that may well make a man say, — ' It would have been better for me if I had never been born.
Page 442 - ... to move contentedly in the plain path which Providence has obviously marked out to the sex, and in which custom has for the most part rationally confirmed them, rather than to stray awkwardly, unbecomingly, and unsuccessfully in a forbidden road ? Is it not desirable to be the lawful possessors of a lesser domestic territory, rather than the turbulent usurpers of a wider foreign empire ? to be good originals, than bad imitators?
Page 433 - ... blame ; not one in ten able to get a chair ; protesting they are engaged to ten other places ; and lamenting the fatigue they are not obliged to endure ; ten or a dozen card-tables crammed with dowagers of quality, grave ecclesiastics and yellow admirals : and you have an idea of an assembly. I never go to these things when I can possibly avoid it, and stay when there as few minutes as I can.