France, Social, Literary, Political, Volume 1

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Page 123 - La victoire marchera au pas de charge; l'aigle avec les couleurs nationales, volera de clocher en clocher jusqu'aux tours de Notre-Dame...
Page 122 - Soldats, dans mon exil j'ai entendu votre voix. Je suis arrivé à travers tous les obstacles et tous les périls. Votre général, appelé au trône par le choix du peuple et élevé sur vos pavois, vous est rendu; venez le joindre. Arrachez...
Page 113 - Au toit du chef le protège endormi. Mais le soldat, teint du sang ennemi, Veille, et de faim meurt en gardant la porte. Et vers le ciel se frayant un chemin, Ils sont partis en se donnant la main.
Page 81 - Hail ! ye small sweet courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty which beget inclinations to love at first sight : 'tis ye who open the door and let the stranger in.
Page 108 - ... tender and touching, and thrilling tone which tell you beyond denial, that the heart your own yearns to is really and truly yours. The love which you find in France is the love made for society — not for solitude: it is that love which befits the dazzling salon, the satined boudoir; it is that love which mixes with intrigue, with action, with politics, and affairs ; it is that love which pleases, and never absorbs; which builds no fairy palace of its own, but which scatters over the trodden...
Page 123 - They seek to poison what the world admires ; and if there still remain any defenders of our glory, it is among those very enemies whom we have fought on the field of battle. " Soldiers ! in my exile I heard your voice : I have arrived through all obstacles and all...
Page 99 - is irresistible — a lord on the banks of the Thames is the same. The lord indeed is a kind of poet — a hallowed and mystic being to people who are always dreaming of lords, and scheming to be ladies. The world of fancy to British dames and damsels is the world of fashion : Almack's and Devonshire House are the " fata morgana" of the proudest and the highest — but every village has
Page 97 - These anthropological and philosophical views are necessary to the correction and qualification of the following more superficial statements of Mr. Bulwer. " In France, there is not even a shocking or humiliating idea attached to these sexual improprieties. The woman, says la Bruyere, who has only one lover, says she is not a coquette. The woman who has more than one lover, says she is only a coquette. To have a lover is the natural and simple thing — nor is it necessary that you should have a...
Page 92 - ... assiduously imitated. That manner is gone ; the French, so far from being a polite people at the present day, want that easiness of behaviour which is the first essential to politeness. Every man you meet is occupied with maintaining his dignity, and talks to you of his position. There is an evident effort and struggle, I will not say to appear better than you are, but to appear all that you are, and to allow no person to think that you consider him better than you. Persons, no longer ranked...

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