Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon: During the First Three Years of His Captivity on the Island of St. Helena: Including the Time of His Residence at Her Father's House, "The Briars,"J. Murray, 1845 - Počet stran: 284 |
Další vydání - Zobrazit všechny
Běžně se vyskytující výrazy a sousloví
admiral amiable amused anecdotes appeared arrived asked Balcombe ball beautiful billiard-room bon-bons Bonaparte called Capt Captain carriage CHAPTER cottage DEADWOOD delighted desired dined dreadful dress emperor empress Josephine England English expressed eyes father fear feeling fond France French garden Gourgaud gum-wood heard heart Helena horse instantly island Jaffa James Town kind KING OF ROME knew LADDER HILL Lady laughed lawn Longwood looked Lord Amherst lovely Madame Bertrand Mademoiselle Betsee ment Miss Betsee Montholon morning mother mountain Napo Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte nearly never night Northumberland O'Meara observed occasion once Paris party peror pleased poleon present pretty prison racter recollect replied riding rock seemed seen sent side Sir George Cockburn Sir Hudson Lowe Sir Pulteney sister soldiers soon spirit suite terror thing thought tion told took valley walk whilst wished young
Oblíbené pasáže
Strana 39 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Strana 10 - The letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to his holiness. Nay then, farewell! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Strana 16 - Imbrowned the noontide bowers : thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, • Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste...
Strana 119 - We found him in the billiard room, employed looking over some very large maps, and moving about a number of pins, some with red heads, others with black. I asked him what he was doing. He replied that he was fighting over again some of his battles and that the red-headed pins were meant to represent the English and the black to indicate the French.
Strana 137 - Ye horrid towers, the abode of broken hearts ; Ye dungeons, and ye cages of despair, That monarchs have supplied from age to age With music, such as suits their sovereign ears, The sighs and groans of miserable men ! There's not an English heart that would not leap To hear that ye were fallen at last; to know That e'en our enemies, so oft employ'd In forging chains for us, themselves were free.
Strana 21 - I had anopportunity of scrutinizing his features, which I did with the keenest interest : and certainly I have never seen any one with so remarkable and striking a physiognomy. The portraits of him give a good general idea of his features, but his smile, and the expression of his eye, could not be transmitted to canvass, and these constituted Napoleon's chief charm. His hair was dark brown, and as fine and silky as a child's ; rather too much so indeed for a man, as it caused it to look thin.
Strana 39 - I never met any one who bore these kind of things so well as Napoleon. He seemed to enter into every sort of mirth or fun with the glee of a child, and though I have often tried his patience severely, I never knew him to lose his temper, or fall back upon his rank or age, to shield himself from the consequences of his own familiarity and indulgence to me.
Strana 25 - Bliss asked me to come to his office one evenirg and he read me an outline of it and asked me what I thought of it, and I told him I thought it was...
Strana 21 - Cockdurn, lost something of the dignity which had so much struck me on first seeing him. He was deadly pale, and I thought his features, though cold and immovable, and somewhat stern, were exceedingly beautiful. He seated himself on one of our cottage chairs,, and after scanning our little apartment with his eagle glance, he complimented mamma on the pretty situation of the Briars. When once he began to speak, his fascinating smile and kind manner removed every vestige of the fear with which I had...
Strana 19 - I saw them begin to descend the mountain and approach our cottage. I recollect feeling so dreadfully frightened, that I wished to run and hide myself until they were gone; but mamma desired me to stay, and to remember and speak French as well as I could. I had learned that language during a visit my father had paid to England some years before, and as we had a French servant, I had not lost what I had then acquired. The party arrived at the gate, and there being no carriage-road, they all dismounted,...