Memoirs and Recollections of Count Segur: Ambassador from France to the Courts of Russia and Prussia, Svazek 1Henry Colburn, 1825 |
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Strana 91 - It would be difficult to describe the eagerness and the delight with which these men, the agents of a people in a state of insurrection against their monarch, were received in France, in the bosom of an ancient monarchy. Nothing could be more striking than the contrast between the luxury of our capital, the elegance of our fashions, the magnificence of Versailles, the still brilliant remains of the monarchical pride of Louis XIV, and the polished and superb dignity of our nobility, on the one hand...
Strana 47 - Peins-moi légèrement l'amant léger de Flore; Qu'un doux ruisseau murmure en vers plus doux encore. Entend-on de la mer les ondes bouillonner ? Le vers , comme un torrent , en roulant doit tonner. Qu'Ajax soulève un roc et le lance avec peine , Chaque syllabe est lourde, et chaque mot se traîne. Mais vois d'un pied léger Camille effleurer l'eau; Le vers vole et la suit , aussi prompt que l'oiseau.
Strana 338 - Rochambeau was kind enough to introduce me to him. Too often reality disappoints the expectations our imagination had raised, and admiration diminishes by a too near view of the object upon which it had been bestowed ; but, on seeing General Washington, I found a perfect similarity between the impression produced upon me by his aspect, and the idea I had formed of him. His exterior disclosed, as it were, the history of his life : simplicity, grandeur, dignity, calmness, goodness, firmness, the attributes...
Strana 348 - Her gown was white, like herself, whilst her ample muslin neckkerchief and the envious cambric of her cap, which scarcely allowed me to see her light-colored hair, and the modest attire in short, of a pious virgin, seemed vainly to endeavor to conceal the most graceful figure and the most beautiful forms imaginable.
Strana 339 - ... storms of a revolution, he commanded, during seven years, the army of a free nation, without exciting the alarms of his countrymen, or the suspicions of the Congress. Under every circumstance he united in his favor the suffrages of rich and poor, magistrates and warriors; in short, Washington is, perhaps, the only man who ever conducted and terminated a civil war without having drawn upon himself any deserved censure. As it was known to all that he entirely disregarded his own private interest,...
Strana 96 - ... so phlegmatic, he concealed the most active mind, the most determined character, and the most enthusiastic spirit. Of this fact I was better enabled to judge than others. During the preceding winter he had become attached to a lady as amiable as she was beautiful, and, having erroneously conceived an idea that I was his rival, in a fit of jealousy he had put aside all...
Strana 338 - ... exterior disclosed, as it were, the history of his life: simplicity, grandeur, dignity, calmness, goodness, firmness, the attributes of his character, were also stamped upon his features and in all his person. His stature was noble and elevated; the expression of his features mild and benevolent; his smile graceful and pleasing; his manners simple, without familiarity. ' He did not display the luxury of a monarchical general; every thing announced in him the hero of a republic: he inspired with,...
Strana 347 - I rendered them the homage to which they were justly entitled ; but my longest visits were paid to an old man very silent, who very seldom bared his thoughts and never bared his head. His gravity and monosyllabic conversation announced, at first sight, that he was a quaker. It must however be confessed...
Strana 366 - Several young officers were indignant at this insult offered to their general, but he restrained their impatience by a sign, smiled, and said to the American : " Take me away with you if you can.
Strana 91 - XIV., and the polished and superb dignity of our nobility, on the one hand ; and, on the other hand, the almost rustic apparel, the plain but firm demeanor, the free and direct language of the envoys, whose antique simplicity of dress and appearance seemed to have introduced within our walls, in the midst of the effeminate and servile refinement of the 1Sth century, some sages contemporary with Plato, or republicans of the age of Cato and of Fabius.