The History of the Bastile, and of Its Principal CaptivesT. Tegg, 1838 - 464 páginas |
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The History of the Bastile, and of Its Principal Captives Richard Alfred Davenport Vista completa - 1838 |
The History of the Bastile, and of Its Principal Captives Richard Alfred Davenport Vista completa - 1838 |
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Abbé Anne of Austria appears Armagnac arrested Bassompierre Bastile became Biron born Bourg brother brought Burgundian Burgundy Bussy captive cardinal Cavoie Chabannes Charles committed compelled Condé confined contrived count court courtiers crime D'Alegre danger dauphin death died duchess Duchess of Maine duke of Alençon duke of Anjou duke of Burgundy Duke of Orleans dungeon enemies escape excited exclaimed father favour fortress fortune Fouquet France French gave governor Guises hands head Henry honour imprisonment king king's Latude letters lettres de cachet liberty Linguet livres Louis XIV Madame marchioness Marquis marshal Mazarin means ment minister monarch months Montmorenci never noble obtained offender Paris Parisian parliament persons police prince prince of Condé prisoner Provost punishment queen received refused reign rendered replied Richelieu Rohan royal Salcede says scaffold secret seems Semblançai sent soon sovereign suffered talents tion took turnkey Vincennes Voltaire
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Página 382 - I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish. In thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood : he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time, nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice : his children — but here my heart began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Página 87 - And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.
Página 382 - The bird in his cage pursued me into my room. I sat down close to my table, and leaning my head upon my hand, I began to figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery ; but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me, I took a single...
Página 135 - Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Página 20 - ... and entered the castle, where I saw another guard under arms. It stopped at a flight of steps at the bottom of the court, where, being desired to go out, I was conducted to a room, which I heard named the councilchamber. I found three persons sitting at a table, who, as I was told, were the king's lieutenant, the major, and his deputy. The major asked me nearly the same questions which, the commissary had done, and observed the same formalities in directing me to read and sign the examination....
Página 359 - Order, domestic arrangement, labor, a little trade, and frugality kept us above want. Our little garden produced nearly as many vegetables as the consumption of the family required ; the orchard afforded us fruit ; and our quinces, our apples, and our pears, preserved with the honey of our bees, were, in winter, most exquisite breakfasts for the good old women and children. They were clothed by the small flock of sheep that folded at St. Thomas. My aunts spun the wool and the hemp of the field that...
Página 406 - ... extremity. This loophole was secured and darkened by a fourfold iron grating, so ingeniously contrived that the bars of one network covered the interstices of another; but there was neither glass nor shutters to ward off the inclemency of the weather. The interior extremity of this aperture reached within about two feet and a half of the ground, and served the captive for a chair and a table ; and sometimes he rested his arms and elbows on it to lighten the weight of his fetters. Shut out from...
Página 110 - Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Página 359 - ... came to help us to dress our flax, the picture was exquisite. The harvest of the little farm secured us subsistence; the wax and honey of the bees, to which one of my aunts carefully attended, formed a revenue that cost but little ; the oil pressed from our green walnuts had a taste and smell that we preferred to the flavor and perfume of that of the olive.
Página 406 - ... lavished praises and attentions upon him. The group must have borne no very distant resemblance to fiends exulting over a lost soul. Stripped, and reclothed in rags which were dropping to pieces, his hands and feet heavily ironed, the prisoner was thrown into one of the most noisome dungeons of the fortress. A sprinkling of straw formed his bed; covering it had none. The only light and air which penetrated into this den of torment came through a loop-hole, which narrowing gradually from the inside...