Sketches of Eminent Statesmen and Writers: With Other Essays, Volumen1J. Murray, 1880 - 458 páginas |
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Sketches of Eminent Statesmen and Writers, with Other Essays, Volumen1 A 1801-1884 Hayward Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
affairs ambassador amongst army arrived asked Austria believe Berlin biographer brother Cabinet called Catholic Cavour Chamber Christian Church conversation Count debate declared despatch Duke duty Emperor Francis Empire England English Europe exclaimed father feeling Foreign France French friends Germany give Government Guizot hand honour House imperial India Italy Jules Favre King Klinkowström Lacordaire Lady Caroline Lamb letter liberty Lord Byron Lord Castlereagh Lord Melbourne Lord Mornington Lord Palmerston Lord Wellesley Majesty matter Melbourne House Memoirs ment Metternich military mind Minister ministry Molé Montalembert Napoleon nation never noble opinion orator Paris Parliament party passed peace Piedmont political President Prince Bismarck Prince Metternich Prince Schwarzenberg Prussia refused remarkable reply resigned Revolution Rome speech spirit statesman Thiers things thought tion told took Torrens treaty truth Turin Vienna Wellesley's whilst wish words writes wrote young
Pasajes populares
Página 298 - It was as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the 'Decline and Fall
Página 269 - I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England." Montalembert went still further, for he identified religion and Christianity with the small section of the Catholic Church which then agreed with him.
Página 134 - Even then, before this splendid orb (Chatham) was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heaven arose another luminary (Charles Townshend), and for his hour became lord of the ascendant.
Página 270 - si malheureuse," or of the poet recalling the first awakening of his senses or his heart: " Oh, who would not welcome that moment returning, When passion first wak'da new life through his fame, And his soul, like the wood that grows precious in burning, Gave out all its sweets to love's exquisite flame ? " " I shall be pardoned,
Página 359 - View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart." A graphic description of Lord Melbourne in the House of Lords is given by Haydon
Página 245 - France, Deputy for the Department of Doubs. A Chapter of Recent French History. By Mrs. Oliphant, Author of "The Life of Edward Irving," "S. Francis of Assisi," &c. In 2 Volumes. Edinburgh and London, 1872.
Página 436 - that blotted the leaves. But, oh ! how the tear in her eyelids grew bright When, after whole pages of sorrow and shame, She saw History write, with a pencil of light, That illumed all the volume, her Wellington's name.
Página 324 - You know, my dear Fred, I have no predilections, My heart is a sieve, in which hopes and affections Are danced up and down for a moment or two, And the finer they are the more sure to slip through." The Regent was still anxious to retain some of the old
Página 202 - Napoleon: their work commenced where the victorious generals left off; and on them devolved the task of restoration and reconstruction, when the revolutionary spirit was tamed down, when the tide of conquest was rolled back, when (to borrow the beautiful imagery of Canning) " the spires and turrets of ancient establishments began to reappear above the subsiding wave