Memoirs of the Countess de Genlis: Illustrative of the History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Band 2Henry Colburn, 1825 |
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Seite 267 - Two days before we set out, Mr. Sheridan made, in my presence, his declaration of love to Pamela, who was -affected by his agreeable manner and high character, and accepted the offer of his hand with pleasure. In consequence of this, it was settled that he was to marry her on our return from France, which was expected to take place in a fortnight.
Seite 135 - I have never witnessed anything more affecting than the transports, the acclamations, and the applauses of the prisoners, during this demolition. In the midst of the tumult, I was struck with the melancholy and miserable looks of the Swiss, who regarded the operation with evident symptoms of grief.
Seite 304 - How often since my misfortunes have I congratulated myself on the education I gave the Duke of Chartres, on having made him learn from his childhood all the principal modern languages, on having accustomed him to serve himself without assistance, to despise every kind of effeminacy, to sleep habitually on a wooden bed, merely covered with a straw mat, to face the sun, cold and rain, to habituate himself to fatigue, by daily...
Seite 304 - ... and lastly, on having taught him many branches of knowledge, and on having inspired him with a taste for travelling ! All that he was indebted for to the chance of birth and fortune, he had lost; and nothing now remained to him but what he held from nature and from me.
Seite 139 - ... avenging hands, which seemed consecrated by Providence, ' and which annihilated with such rapidity the work of many centuries — all this spoke at once to the imagination and the heart.
Seite 183 - you. should go to Llangollen, where you will see a model of perfect friendship;" and, at the Comptesse's request, he related the following memoir : " Lady Eleanor Butler, (then 1788) about twentyeight years of age, was born in Dublin : an orphan from the cradle, and a rich, amiable, and lovely heiress : her hand was sought by persons of the best families in Ireland, but she very early announced her. repugnance to marriage.- This taste for independence she never concealed ; yet no woman was ever...
Seite 194 - Addison, have been just towards us. llow are we represented on the English stage? The French are always treated there as weak fops, and what seems still more singular, as cowards. In short, a Frenchman is never introduced on the English stage but in order to be represented under the most odious colours, and in the most ridiculous light. In the most recent English works, we find the same injustice and the same hatred. Let us compare this with the generous good feeling of our authors, who have so highly...
Seite 194 - ... nations. This want of dignity and of good breeding proves also a want of greatness of mind and of taste. With what injustice have they criticised our literature at the same time that they were stealing from or copying our writers ! * * * None of the English authors, even the sage Addison, have been just towards us. How are we represented* on the English stage? The French are always treated there as weak fops, and what seems still more singular, as cowards. In short, a Frenchman is never introduced...
Seite 276 - English girl, he saw this girl, and obtained her from her mother. When I began to be really attached to Pamela, I was very uneasy lest her mother might be desirous of claiming her by legal process ; that is, lest she might threaten me with doing so, to obtain grants of money it would have been out of my power to give. I consulted several English lawyers on the subject, and they told me that the only means of protecting myself from this species of persecution was to get the mother to give me her daughter...
Seite 75 - ... The duke was sedulously engaged in endeavoring to find a tutor for his sons. The eldest, the Duke of Valois,* was then eight years old. He consulted me on the selection of a fit person. I proposed several, among others M. de Schomberg ; but, none of them meeting his favor, I said, with a laugh, " Well, then, what do you think of me ? " " Why not ? " replied he, seriously : " the thing is decided ; you must be their tutor.