Sur l'eau. Des vers. A tale of old times. A family affairSt. Dunstan Society, 1903 |
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Page 75 - I had made the whole very clear to them ; when, God knows, I had not even attempted it. Lord Macclesfield, who had the greatest share in forming the bill, and who is one of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterwards with infinite knowledge, and all the clearness that so intricate a matter would admit of; but as his words, his periods, and his utterance were not near BO good as mine, the preference was most unanimously, though most unjustly, given to me.
Page 100 - ... Philip VI, beaten and wounded at the battle of Crecy, cried as he knocked at the gates of the castle of Arbroie: " Open! Here are the fortunes of France! " They are still grateful to him for this melodramatic speech. John II, made prisoner by the Prince of Wales, remarks, with chivalrous good will and the graceful gallantry of a French troubadour : "I had counted upon entertaining you at supper to-night, but fortune wills otherwise and ordains that I should sup with you." It would be impossible...
Page 76 - ... with infinite knowledge, and all the clearness that so intricate a matter would admit of: but as his words, his periods, and his utterance, were not near so good as mine, the preference was most unanimously, though most unjustly, given to me. This will ever be the case; every numerous assembly is mob, let the individuals who compose it be what they will. Mere reason and good sense is never to be talked to a mob; their passions, their sentiments, their senses, and their seeming interests, are...
Page 50 - C'était, dans la nuit brune, Sur le clocher jauni, La lune, Comme un point sur un i. Lune, quel esprit sombre Promène au bout d'un fil, Dans l'ombre, Ta face et ton profil ? Es-tu l'œil du ciel borgne? Quel chérubin cafard Nous lorgne Sous ton masque blafard ? N'es-tu rien qu'une boule?
Page 43 - ... of life. Like the birds, I love the sky ; like the prowling wolf, the forests. I delight in rocky heights like a chamois ; the thick grass I love to roll in and gallop over like a horse ; and, like a fish, I revel in the clean waters. I feel thrilling within me the sensations of all the different species of animals, of all their instincts, of all the confused longings of inferior creatures.
Page 38 - ... rot with dirt, lie down in mire, live like brutes in a continual besotment, pillage towns, burn villages, ruin nations ; then, meeting another similar agglomeration of human flesh, rush upon it, shed lakes of blood, cover plains with pounded flesh mingled with muddy and bloody earth; pile up heaps of slain; have arms and legs blown off, brains scattered without benefit to...
Page 43 - I revel in the clear waters. I feel thrilling within me the sensations of all the different species of animals, of all their instincts, of all the confused longings of inferior creatures. I love the earth as they do, not as other men do; I love it without admiring it, without poetry, without exultation; I love with a deep and animal attachment, contemptible yet holy, all that lives, all that grows, all we see; for all this, leaving my spirit calm, excites only my eyes and my heart; the days, the...
Page 13 - ... gone to bed, if he had been told to, obeying her in everything, without resistance and without reflection, and he ate; the doctor helped himself three times, while Madame Caravan, from time to time, fished out a large piece at the end of her fork, and swallowed it with a sort of studied indifference. When a salad bowl full of macaroni was brought in, the doctor said: "By Jove! That is what I am very fond of.
Page 57 - ... muscular contractions, the strain of the four men who lowered the coffin into the grave, a thousand things in fact that a poor fellow suffering with all his heart, soul, and strength would never have noticed. He has seen all, noticed all, remembered all, in spite of himself, because he is above all a literary man, and his intellect is constructed in such a manner that the reverberation in him is much more vivid, more natural, so to speak, than the first shock, the echo more sonorous than the...
Page 75 - ... choice of my words, to the harmony and roundness of my periods, to my elocution, to my action. This succeeded, and ever will succeed; they thought I informed, because I pleased them; and many of them said, that I had made the whole very clear to them, when, God knows, I had not even attempted it. Lord Macclesfield, who had the greatest share in forming the bill, and who is one of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in...