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Page 133 - I attempt no description of this day, the grandeur of which was unknown, or unbelieved, in Brussels till it had taken its flight, and could only be named as time past. The Duke of Wellington and Prince Bliicher were too mightily engaged in meriting fame to spare an instant for either claiming or proclaiming it.
Page 129 - was now to be broken; I was seated at my bureau and writing, when a loud "hurrah!" reached my ears from some distance, while the daughter of my host, a girl of about eighteen, gently opening my door, said the fortune of the day had suddenly turned, and that Bonaparte was taken prisoner.
Page 299 - My spirits have been dreadfully saddened of late by whole days—nay weeks—of helplessness for any employment. They have but just revived. How merciful a reprieve ! How merciful is ALL we know! The ways of Heaven are not dark and intricate, but unknown and •unimagined till the great teacher, Death, developes them. ***** In November,
Page 188 - vivacity of ideas, and such brilliancy of expression, I know not where I have met before. I often lay the book down to enjoy for a considerable time a single sentence. I have rarely, even in the course of my whole life, read any thing with so glowing a
Page 295 - much as we already know of the last age, you have brought many scenes of it, not less animated than new, graphically before our eyes, whilst I now seem familiar with many departed worthies who were not before known to me, even so much as by name.
Page 11 - by instalments from nine months to nine months, that is, in a year and a half from the day of publication. If all goes well, the whole will be 3000?., but only at the end of the sale of eight thousand copies. Oh, my Padre, if you approve the work, I shall have good hope.
Page 258 - How I bore this is still marvellous to me! I had always believed such a sentence would at once have killed me. But his sight—the sight of his stillness, kept me from distraction ! Sacred he appeared, and his stillness I thought should be mine, and be inviolable.
Page 125 - as well as society was annihilated, but even every species of occupation, All of which we seemed capable was, to inquire or to relate, to speak or to hear. Yet no clamour, no wrangling, nor even debate was intermixed with either question or answer; curiosity, though incessant, was serene ; the faces were all monotony, though the tidings were all variety.
Page 257 - reunion !" .... Oh, words the most precious that ever the tenderest of husbands left for balm to the lacerated heart of a surviving wife! I fastened my lips on his loved hands, but spoke not. It was not then that those words were my blessing ! They awed—they thrilled—more than they solaced me. How
Page 292 - away whatever comes uppermost ; if you stop to consider either what you say, or what may be said of you, I would not give one fig for your letters."—How little, in those days, did either he or