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... moving scene to see the most unfortunate of monarchs defended by the most virtuous of men . Mal . Were he not a military man , who addresses me , I should be afraid he means to deceive me , since he flatters . Dum . The public opinion ...
... moving scene to see the most unfortunate of monarchs defended by the most virtuous of men . Mal . Were he not a military man , who addresses me , I should be afraid he means to deceive me , since he flatters . Dum . The public opinion ...
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... moving speech , your poetical and living picture of Louis XVI . compared with which , the argument of Desèze is a mere schoolboy's performance . Dec. 26th . evening . Abbé Fermont was at my house at daybreak in order to impart to me the ...
... moving speech , your poetical and living picture of Louis XVI . compared with which , the argument of Desèze is a mere schoolboy's performance . Dec. 26th . evening . Abbé Fermont was at my house at daybreak in order to impart to me the ...
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... moving an accent , that the tender Maria Theresa fell in a swoon . The door opened , the royal family was led away by two commissioners ; and while they filled the staircase with the lacerating cries 102 THE MAGDALEN.
... moving an accent , that the tender Maria Theresa fell in a swoon . The door opened , the royal family was led away by two commissioners ; and while they filled the staircase with the lacerating cries 102 THE MAGDALEN.
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... moving sweetness of disposition ; I felt the breath of a gentle breeze , or rather guessed at it by the undula- tion of the stranger's flaxen locks , ornamenting his head respectfully uncovered . And , when the recol- lection of a ...
... moving sweetness of disposition ; I felt the breath of a gentle breeze , or rather guessed at it by the undula- tion of the stranger's flaxen locks , ornamenting his head respectfully uncovered . And , when the recol- lection of a ...
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... melancholy by the sweet and moving sounds of her voice , in uni- son with her musical instruments . Often seated be- fore a piano , forgetful of my past greatness , yielding to the charms of a sentimental revery , I made 202 THE MAGDALEN.
... melancholy by the sweet and moving sounds of her voice , in uni- son with her musical instruments . Often seated be- fore a piano , forgetful of my past greatness , yielding to the charms of a sentimental revery , I made 202 THE MAGDALEN.
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Page 1 - Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow; A blow, which, while it executes, alarms; And startles thousands with a single fall.
Page 121 - He deprecates those murmurs of surprise or displeasure, which his discourse evidently called forth more than once, 4 though not so much on his own account as on that of the dikasts, who will be benefited by hearing him, and who will hurt themselves and their city much more than him, if they should now pronounce condemnation.
Page 137 - Unanimously conspiring against me, they daily invent some new humiliation, which adds to the horror of my destiny ; they distil, drop by drop on my wounded heart, the poison of adversity, numbering my sighs with delight, and before they quaff my blood, they quench their thirst • with my tears.