 After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the...  The Nineteenth Century - Page 2971897Full view - About this book
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...good judge. Mr. Gibbon's subsequent praise of Mademoiselle Curchod's virtuous pride in poverty *nd Madame Necker's graceful dignity in high station is...never disturbed. No such work as the Decline -and Faifl, if indeed there be such another, was ever more completely due to one imperial mind. ' Not a... | |
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