The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 8Joseph Rogerson |
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Page 319 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 151 - A MOTHER came, when stars were paling, Wailing 'round a lonely spring; Thus she cried while tears were falling, Calling on the fairy King: " Why with spells my child caressing, Courting him with. fairy joy; Why destroy a mother's blessing, Wherefore steal my baby boy...
Page 197 - ACT I SCENE I. — MANFRED alone. — Scene, a Gothic Gallery. — Time, Midnight. Man. The lamp must be replenish'd, but even then It will not burn so long as I must watch : My slumbers — if I slumber — are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not : in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within ; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.
Page 48 - ... brother, and something in the frankness of your manner that reminded me of his, added to the hilarity of an unexpected reunion with so many of my countrymen, has perhaps induced too sudden a familiarity in my demeanour; but, in wishing you good night, Captain Wargrave, and a fairer interpretation of the next sailor who opens his heart to you at sight, allow me to assure you, that not a shadow of offence was intended in the rhapsody you are pleased to resent.
Page 214 - We have many and brilliant proofs that where need is, she can be sufficient to herself, and play her part in the great drama of existence with credit, if not with comfort. The yearnings of her solitary spirit, the outgushings of her shrinking sensibility, the cravings of her alienated heart, are indulged only in the quiet holiness of her solitude. The world sees not, guesses not, the conflict ; and in the ignorance of others lies her strength.
Page 254 - ... steams of soups from kitchens, the pantomimes — London itself a pantomime and a masquerade — all these things work themselves into my mind, and feed me, without a power of satiating me. The wonder of these sights impels me into nightwalks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fulness of joy at so much life.
Page 47 - For my own part, I should be well content never to exceed a couple of glasses of good claret. Wine affects me in a different way from most men. The more I drink, the more my spirits are depressed. While others get roaring drunk, I sit moping and despairing ; and the next day my head aches like an artilleryman's.
Page 48 - Wargrave replied by a vague, unmeaning laugh, which led me to conclude that my eloquence was lost on him. Yet I continued : — " Do you know that, in spite of the prevalence of the Bacchanalian idolatry, I think we hardly give honour due to the influence of wine. It has ever been the mania of mankind to ascribe the actions of their fellow-creatures to all motives but the true ; but if they saw...
Page 48 - You are right," said Wargrave, with a bitter smile, " in saying that we do not allow ourselves to assign to wine the full measure of authority it holds among the motives of our conduct. But you Were wrong in limiting that authority to the instigation of great and heroic actions. Wine is said in Scripture to 'make glad the heart of man.
Page 213 - ... to herself it is not without its dangers, its inconveniences, and its sufferings. Her first effort at comparative freedom is bitter enough ; for the delicate mind shrinks from every unaccustomed contact, and the warm and gushing heart closes itself, like the blossom of the sensitive plant, at every approach. Man may at once determine his position, and assert his place ; woman has hers to seek ; and, alas ! I fear me, that however she may appear to turn a calm brow and a quiet lip to the crowd...