Greece and the Greeks, tr. [from Lifvet i gamla verden] by M. Howitt, Volume 11863 |
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Greece and the Greeks, Tr. [From Lifvet I Gamla Verden] by M. Howitt Fredrika Bremer No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 294 - Talk not of ruling in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words (he cried) can ease my doom. Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.
Page 274 - " For the rest she says little about herself. There is a something mysterious and sorrowful in her history which she evidently will not reveal. Study and work seem to be her only passion, — her chief consolation and enjoyment She is an extraordinary woman. In Athens she is for the present celebrated as a new Corinne, and spite of all the talk about her disgrace at the court of St. Petersburg, she has been within the last few days presented by the Russian Minister, Baron Ozeroff, to Queen Amelia.
Page 168 - Gramineae" — the last of the natural orders elaborated for the "Genera Plantarum": — " Much has been done, however, for the elucidation of the order in local Floras. Already at the close of the last century and the commencement of the present...
Page 308 - Greece, — that sorrowful glance directed into distance, which told me that she sought for herself and for her buried life a judge — but not of the earth. • • * " Miss Bremer, in concluding her long and affectionate sketch of the princess, says, " She is still young, and with her turn of mind and her gifts I know no height on the path of human development to which she may not attain. Long life and health to her, both of soul and body ! " " On the Shores of the Helvetian Lakes," and " Excursions...
Page 306 - She was romantically beautiful at this moment; I shall never forget her glance this last evening on which I saw her in Greece, — that sorrowful glance directed into distance, which told me that she sought for herself and for her buried life a judge — but not of the earth. • • * " Miss Bremer, in concluding her long and affectionate sketch of the princess, says, " She is still young, and with her turn of mind and her gifts I know no height on the path of human development to which she may...
Page 305 - ... Space prevents more than brief extracts from these personal reminiscences, but another must find place here. After a glowing description of the princess's appearance she says : " In the evening I stood with the princess on her balcony; the full moon poured through the twilight her silvery splendor on her head, a spray of double white jasmine in her dark brown hair diffused around its strong perfume, whilst with a melancholy expression she glanced forth into the free dark space. She was romantically...
Page 273 - ... Roumelia. The voice struck me as masculine, and the tone as a little dogmatical ; her manner extremely polite, but not quite natural, and for that reason not engaging. I saw in her a woman of the great world, accustomed to be on her guard against the world, and not exhibit her inner self. " Afterward I came to see a different person in her, — a deeply sensitive, loving, noble and even humble woman ; a soul which was well acquainted with suffering, which would endure a great deal without complaint,...
Page 273 - ... a countenance whose refined features, delicately penciled eyebrows, handsome dark eyes, with a refined rather than ardent glance, reminded me of the type of beauty which I had observed in the aristocracy of Roumelia. The voice struck me as masculine, and the tone as a little dogmatical ; her manner extremely polite, but not quite natural, and for that reason not engaging. I saw in her a woman of the great world, accustomed to be on her guard against the world, and not exhibit her inner self....
Page 273 - ... world, accustomed to be on her guard against the world, and not exhibit her inner self. " Afterward I came to see a different person in her, — a deeply sensitive, loving, noble and even humble woman ; a soul which was well acquainted with suffering, which would endure a great deal without complaint, and who, although accustomed to keep guard over her expressions, yet never to conceal her convictions ; a peculiar character of rare inner wealth and originality ; a woman to admire- and love at...
Page 271 - DTstria,' said a great book-seller of Geneva to me in an oracular tone, 'will never write a book that will be read.' But he was mistaken," she adds; "a year afterward and the Countess Dora D'Istria's work ' Les Femmes en Orient,' was one of the best-read and most celebrated books in the circles of the cultivated French reading world.