The American in Paris, Volume 1Carey & Hart, 1847 - Paris (France) |
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Page 47 - A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function : Each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Page 207 - It is certainly of much value in the life of an American gentleman to visit these old countries; if it were only to form a just estimate of his own, which he is continually liable to mistake, and always to overrate without objects of comparison; " nimium se sestimet necesse est, qui se nemini comparat.
Page 73 - The individual who held this dialogue with the executioner was the Marquis de Laly. Twenty years after, he died by the hands of this man, upon whose office he was now exercising his raillery.
Page 43 - ... boyhood. I have no doubt that the daily habit of climbing too has a good moral influence ; it gives one dispositions to rise in the world. I ought to remark here, that persons in honest circumstances do not have kitchens in their own houses. It is in favor of the French style not a little, that it improves the quality at least of one class of lodgers. Mean houses degrade men's habits, and lower their opinions of living. As for me, I like this Paris way, but I don't know why. I like to see myself...
Page 173 - Not soft Herodias, when, with winning tread, Her nimble feet danced off another's head ; Not Cleopatra on her galley's deck, Displayed so much of leg, or more of neck...
Page 41 - The mother wept in telling this story, and then, some one coming in, she smiled. One is usually a little shy of these hotels, at first sight ; especially if one comes from the Broad Mountain. You take hold of an unwieldy knocker, you lift it up cautiously, and open flies the door six inches ; you then push yourself through, and look about with a kind of a suspicious and sheepish look, and you see no one. At length, you discover an individual, who will not seem to take the least notice of you, till...
Page 201 - I not bound by so many endearing affections of kindred and friendship to my native country, there is not one spot upon the earth I would prefer to the sweet tranquillity of this delicious retirement. When you visit the Luxembourg, you will see multitudes everywhere of bouncing demoiselles, with nymphlooking faces, caps without bonnets, and baskets in their hands, traversing the garden from all quarters, running briskly to their work in the morning, and strolling slowly homewards towards evening.
Page 201 - They are in the train of the muses, and love the groves of the Academy. A grisette, in this Latin Quarter, is a branch of education. If a student is ill, his faithful grisette nurses him and cures him; if he is destitute, she works for him ; and if he falls into irretrievable misfortune, she dies with him.
Page 51 - Don't you say that dancing is not a natural inclination, or I will set all the savages on you, of the Rocky Mountains; and I don't know how many of the dumb animals — especially the bears, who, even on the South-sea Islands, where they could not have any relations with the Academic Royale de Musique, always express their extreme joy, Captain Cook says, by this agreeable agitation of limbs. And if you won't believe all this, I will take you to see a Negro holiday on the Mississippi. — Now this...
Page 40 - Rivoli is equal in rank to a second story anywhere else. The porter's Lodge is a little niche about eight feet square. It pays no rent, but receives a salary, usually of sixty dollars a year, from the proprietor. Our porter is a man of several talents. He tunes pianos for ten sous, and plays at the " Petit Lazari" of a night for two francs. Indeed his whole family plays ; his grandmother plays the