Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld): Including Her AutobiographyRudd & Carleton, 1858 - Počet stran: 297 |
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Strana 81 - Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been — A sound which makes us linger; — yet— farewell ! Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon, and scallop-shell ; Farewell! with him alone may rest the pain, If such there were — with you, the moral of his strain.
Strana 264 - The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Strana 281 - Easter ; the crisping and curling, frizzling and frowncing of Mary Magdalen, which she cut off on growing devout. The good man that showed us all these commodities was got into such a train of calling them the blessed this, and the blessed that, that at last he showed us a bit of the blessed fig-tree that Christ cursed.
Strana 88 - I believe that most people nowadays look upon a red head with disfavour — but in the times of Queen Elizabeth it was in fashion. Mary of Scotland, though she had exquisite hair of her own, wore red fronts out of compliment to fashion and the red-headed Queen of England. That famous beauty, Cleopatra, was red-haired also ; and the Venetian ladies to this day counterfeit yellow hair. Yellow hair has a higher authority still. The ORDER OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE, instituted by Philip, Duke of Burgundy,...
Strana 14 - ... had strength to get outside of that line, has not possessed the strength to stand there ; and the fatal result has been that she has been swept down into the gulf of irredeemable sin. The great misfortune was that there was too much of her to be held within the prescribed and safe limits allotted to woman ; but there was not enough to enable her to stand securely beyond the shelter of conventional rules. Within this little bit of philosophy...
Strana 146 - IN her fair cheeks two pits do lie, To bury those slain by her eye; So, spite of death, this comforts me, That fairly buried I shall be, My grave with rose and lily spread ; O 'tis a life to be so dead ! Come then, and kill me with thy eye, For if thou let me live, I die.
Strana 5 - Let Lola Montez have credit for her talents, her intelligence, and her support of popular rights. As a political character, she held, until her retirement from Switzerland, an important position in Bavaria and Germany, besides having agents and correspondents in various parts of Europe. On foreign politics she has clear ideas, and has been treated by the political men of the country as a substantive power. She always kept state secrets, and could be consulted in safety in cases in which her original...
Strana 281 - Majesty from Jerusalem. Among other things of great sanctity there is a set of gnashing of teeth, the grinders very entire ; a bit of the worm that never dies, preserved in spirits ; a crow of St. Peter's cock, very useful against Easter ; the crisping and curling, frizzling and frowncing of Mary Magdalen, which she cut off on growing devout.
Strana 87 - With the Modern Greeks, and other nations on the shores of the Mediterranean, corpulency is the perfection of form in a woman ; and those very attributes which disgust the western European, form the attractions of an oriental fair. It was from the common and admired shape of his countrywomen, that Rubens in his pictures delights so much in a vulgar and odious plumpness : — when this master was desirous to represent the "beautiful," he had no idea of beauty under two hundredweight.
Strana 130 - There was no discussion then about " woman's rights," or "woman's influence" — woman had whatever her soul desired, and her will was the watchword for battle or peace. Love was as marked a feature in the chivalric character as...