Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 57Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1865 - Literature |
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... mother takes place . If permitted , I shall have the supreme honour of attending your highness to the palace , and after the banquet will conduct you to the Louvre , where you will witness the grand ballet . " " The duke is , indeed ...
... mother takes place . If permitted , I shall have the supreme honour of attending your highness to the palace , and after the banquet will conduct you to the Louvre , where you will witness the grand ballet . " " The duke is , indeed ...
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... mother by the hand . Louis XIII . was of slight figure , but well proportioned , with handsome features and fine eyes . His pourpoint and mantle were of crimson damask , embroidered with gold and enriched with precious stones , and ...
... mother by the hand . Louis XIII . was of slight figure , but well proportioned , with handsome features and fine eyes . His pourpoint and mantle were of crimson damask , embroidered with gold and enriched with precious stones , and ...
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... mother that Charles was now occupied . His attention was engrossed by the lovely young queen who followed them . Anne of Austria was then about twenty - four , and consequently in the full éclat of her beauty . Her figure was exquisite ...
... mother that Charles was now occupied . His attention was engrossed by the lovely young queen who followed them . Anne of Austria was then about twenty - four , and consequently in the full éclat of her beauty . Her figure was exquisite ...
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... mother's beauty , and , indeed , was so like her mother , that , at Florence , she might have passed for a daughter of the house of Medicis . As the princess moved gracefully along under the conduct , as we have said , of the Duc de ...
... mother's beauty , and , indeed , was so like her mother , that , at Florence , she might have passed for a daughter of the house of Medicis . As the princess moved gracefully along under the conduct , as we have said , of the Duc de ...
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... mother's favourite son , and as she would gladly have seen him on the throne , she secretly supported his schemes , and by so doing excited the sus- picion of Richelieu and the king . Into these intrigues , however , we need not enter ...
... mother's favourite son , and as she would gladly have seen him on the throne , she secretly supported his schemes , and by so doing excited the sus- picion of Richelieu and the king . Into these intrigues , however , we need not enter ...
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Popular passages
Page 410 - Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration.
Page 71 - To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
Page 619 - But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff, They were all struck for thee!
Page 521 - When from the censer clouds of fragrance roll, And swelling organs lift the rising soul, One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight, Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight : In seas of flame my plunging soul is drown'd, While altars blaze, and angels tremble round.
Page 523 - Soft shall be his pillow. There, through the summer day, Cool streams are laving ; There, while the tempests sway, Scarce are boughs waving ; There, thy rest shalt thou take, Parted for ever, Never again to wake, Never, O never.
Page 618 - If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause ; send down, and take my part...
Page 619 - If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vile offences, It will come, Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
Page 411 - The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green, the world will proceed in its old course, people will laugh as heartily and marry as fast as they were used to do. " The memory of man," as it is elegantly expressed in the Book of Wisdom, " passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but one day.
Page 295 - He affects misanthropy, in order to conceal the sensibility of a heart, which is tender, even to a degree of weakness.
Page 78 - An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. The wise man of the Stoics would, no doubt, be a grander object than a steamengine. But there are steam-engines. And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born.