Paris. La belle France. SpainBalch, 1898 - Asia |
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Alcázar Alcázar of Seville Alhambra amphitheatre arches architecture arena beautiful beheld beneath boulevards brilliant bronze bull bull-fight Cæsar Casino castle cathedral Cauterets CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES charming château CHENONCEAUX chulos church cliffs columns Cordova court courtyard death door DUKE OF GUISE Eaux Bonnes Eaux Chaudes edifice Emperor Escorial Europe exclaimed famous Fontainebleau France French GALLERY gilded glittering glory Granada grand hand heart height hundred feet Josephine King looked Louis Louis XIV Louvre lovely Madrid magnificent Malmaison marble Marie Antoinette matador memories miles Molière Moorish Moors mosque mountains Napo Napoleon Napoleon III never Nîmes once palace PALACE OF CHARLES PANTICOSA Paris passed pavement picadors Pyrenean Pyrenees Queen river Riviera Roman royal ruin scene sculptured seats seemed Seville side sovereign Spain Spaniards Spanish splendid stands statue streets thousand tion Toledo tomb tourist towers Trianon Tuileries Versailles walls
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Page 112 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 23 - Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Page 10 - Soldiers of my Old Guard, I bid you farewell. For twenty years I have constantly accompanied you on the road to honour and glory. In these latter times, as in the days of our prosperity, you have invariably been models of courage and fidelity. With men such as you our cause could not be lost, but the war would have been interminable ; it would have been civil war, and...
Page 81 - t was silver flowing. Her words were three, and not one more, What could Diana's motto be? The siren wrote upon the shore, — " Death, not inconstancy! " . And then her two large languid eyes So turned on mine, that, devil take me! I set the air on fire with sighs, And was the fool she chose to make me ! Saint Francis would have been deceived With such an eye and such a hand ; But one week more, and I believed As much the woman as the sand.
Page 80 - The ripples of the mighty river, Beside me on the bank was seated A Seville girl, with auburn hair, And eyes that might the world have cheated, — A wild, bright, wicked, diamond pair...
Page 75 - H 75 well French artists understand the art of utilizing perspective ! The gradual approach to this imposing structure is rendered beautiful by a most skillful and harmonious grouping of flowers, lawns, and fountains; and when, on festal nights, like that of the I4th of July, — the anniversary of the taking of the Bastille, — the palace and cascades are all illumined, the THR TROCADERO.
Page 12 - The allied powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, the Emperor Napoleon, faithful to his oath...
Page 98 - I remember only the following chorus: " Little Queen, you must not be So saucy, with your twenty years; Your ill-used courtiers soon will see You pass, once more, the barriers. Fal lal lal, fal lal la.
Page 110 - ... in the heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Page 120 - I desire that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people whom I have ever loved.