The Memoirs of Alexandre Dumas (phre): Being Extracts from the First Five Volumes of Mes MimoiresW.H. Allen and Company, 1891 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abbé Fortier Abbé Grégoire Adolphe Adolphe de Leuven alarm answered arms army asked battle Berlick boar Bobino Bonaparte Boudoux Bourbons Brune Cairo called Carbonarism Choron Collard Cossacks Crépy cried dear death Dermoncourt Deviolaine door Duc d'Orléans Dumas Emperor enemy eyes father flung forest four France French gave give hand hares haricot head heart Hiraux Horatius Cocles horse Jérôme Joubert killed King Kléber Lafarge Laon leagues leave letter Leuven Louis Louis XVIII Louvel Madame Manscourt March Maubreuil Mdlle Mennesson Moinat Mont Cenis Moquet morning mother Napoleon never night Oblet officers once opened Paillet Paris partridges passed Picot poor Prince remained replied round shooting shot Sicilian Vespers Sire Soissons soldiers Sylla Talleyrand Talma Tarentum thing three days tion took town Vendée verses Villers-Cotterets Waterloo word wounded young
Popular passages
Page 299 - come forward." I advanced two steps nearer. "Well, Mr. Poet," he continued, " are you satisfied ?'' — " Better than that, I am lost in wonder." " Well, you must come and see me again, and ask me for more tickets.
Page 176 - Singular defeat, by which, notwithstanding the most fatal catastrophe, the glory of the conquered has not suffered, nor the fame of the conqueror been increased ; the memory of the one will survive his destruction ; the memory of the other will perhaps be buried in his triumph...
Page 103 - when five or six years of age, I possessed these two accomplishments (reading and writing) in a superior degree, a fact which made me wondrously conceited. I can still see myself, about the height of a jack-boot, and in a little cotton jacket, taking part, with the utmost precocity, in the conversation of grown-up people, and contributing thereto my store of knowledge, profane and sacred.
Page 240 - Be sure, my boy, there is something else in life besides pleasure, love, sport, dancing, and all the wild dreams of youth. There is work : learn to work — learn, that is, to be happy.
Page 290 - ... landlord of an hotel in the Rue des Vieux Augustins agrees to lodge and board them for two days and present them with a pate and a bottle of wine at parting. Dumas's grand object was to see Talma, and his first visit is to a literary friend, who introduces him to the great actor at his toilette : — ' Talma was very shortsighted. I do not know whether he saw me or not. He was washing his chest. His beard was nearly all shaved, which particularly struck me, insomuch as I had heard a dozen times...