John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Paris. La belle France. SpainBalch Brothers, 1898 - Asia |
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Page 114 - 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 229 - CATHEDRAL. 261 white marble — unquestionably one of the noblest specimens of Gothic architecture in the world. Its pointed towers rise like slender pyramids into the blue air to the height of three hundred feet, and are so exquisitely cut in perforated stone, that by night the stars gleam through the chiseled tracery as through the trees. Its splendid central tower resembles a grand tiara, adorned with scores of pinnacles and statues and turrets of wonderful lightness. This elaborate carving and...
Page 136 - 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 270 - Was on the streams of Guadalquiver, To gold converting, one by one, 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 270 - 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...
Page 138 - 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 100 - 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 138 - The allied Powers having declared that the Emperor was the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, the Emperor, faithful to his oaths, declares that he renounces, for himself and his heirs, the thrones of France and Italy, and that there is no sacrifice, not even that of life, which he is not ready to make for the interest of France.
Page 194 - Oh, the years I lost before I knew you, love! Oh, the hills I climbed and came not to you, love! Ah, who shall render unto us to make us glad The things which for and of each other's sake We might have had?" The most enjoyable of all the numberless excursions to be made here is the trip to the Port de Venasque, through which is seen the giant of the Pyrenees, the Maladetta. This
Page 100 - ... wishes to be esteemed; you can do it if you will but restrain yourself a little and follow the advice given you ; if you are heedless, I foresee great troubles for you, nothing but squabbles and petty- cabals which will render your days miserable. I wish to prevent this and to conjure you to take the advice of a mother who knows the world, who idolizes her children and whose only desire is to pass her sorrowful days in being of service to them.