French Authors at Home: Episodes in the Lives and Works of Balzac--Madame de Girardin--George Sand--Lamartine--Léon Gozlan--Lamennais--Victor Hugo, Etc, Svazky 1–2

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L. Booth, 1864
 

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Strana xvii - Qu'on parle mal ou bien du fameux Cardinal, Ma prose ni mes vers n'en diront jamais rien : II m'a fait trop de bien pour en dire du mal, II m'a fait trop de mal pour en dire du bien.
Strana 131 - C'était le seul débris de ma longue tempête, Seul fruit de tant de fleurs, seul vestige d'amour, Une larme au départ, un baiser au retour, Pour mes foyers...
Strana xvii - En vain contre le Cid un ministre se ligue : Tout Paris pour Chimène a les yeux de Rodrigue.
Strana 5 - Yes! where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild? Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones? Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones?
Strana 185 - Mon vieux père a pour vous versé son sang à flots. Moi, je suis fille noble, et de ce sang jalouse. Trop pour la concubine, et trop peu pour l'épouse!
Strana 224 - M. Hugo was at the Opera on the night the sentence of the Court of Peers, condemning Barbes to death, was published. The great poet composed the following verses: — 'Par votre ange envolee, ainsi qu'une colombe, Par le royal enfant, doux et frele roseau, Grace encore une fois!
Strana xxiii - ... where nature should be the only guide, it is not merely^ literary counsel that we should give. We should speak to poets, as to citizens and heroes ; we should say to them, Be virtuous, be faithful, be free ; respect what is dear to you, seek immortality in love, and the Deity in nature; in short, sanctify your soul as a temple, and the angel of noble thoughts will not disdain to appear in it.
Strana 65 - the strangest hygiene ever propounded among laymen. If we desired to hand our names down to posterity as authors, it was indispensable that we should immure ourselves absolutely for two or three years : that we should drink nothing but water and only eat soaked beans, like Protogenes : that we should go to bed at sunset and rise at midnight, to work hard till morning: that we should spend the whole day in revising, amending, extending, pruning, perfecting, and polishing our night's work, in correcting...
Strana 97 - Away with civilization! Away with thought!" — That is your cry. You ought to hold in horror the education of women for the reason so well realized in Spain, that it is easier to govern a nation of idiots than a nation of scholars. A nation degraded...
Strana 63 - ... neglects me more than ever. He won't go down oftener than every third or fourth day to make my purchases, and then to the nearest and worst dealers in the neighborhood ; the others are too far off, and the fellow economizes in steps. And so it is that your brother (destined to fame) is already fed like a great man, — that is to say, he is dying of hunger.

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