Albert Lunel: Or, The Château of Languedoc ...C. Knight, 1844 |
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Page 1 - Lust, through some certain strainers well refined, Is gentle love, and charms all womankind; Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave; Nor virtue, male or female, can we name, But what will grow on pride, or grow on shame.
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Page 110 - France just before the Revolution of 1789. In the course of the action a distinguished visitor arrives one day at the chateau of the Marquess de Bagnolles. This was M. La Croasse, one of the most distinguished men of the day, or rather of the day before, he having served in high station during M. Sartine's short naval administration; but he had now retired from active life, and passed his time in literary ease, though still an acute and anxious observer of public events. He was described by the Baron,...
Page 145 - III. 4s. (about twelve louis d'or).' They said the title of this law was ' An act for the security of the subject, to prevent the forfeiture of life and alike upon killing a negro or other slave.' " I found that a wholesale system of punishment is established in this town. There is an apparatus at the common gaol, where a public flogger attends, and any master who has suspected his slaves of rebellious designs or other offences, sends them to the place ; they are tied up with their limbs stretched...
Page 57 - ... called him, would come round to make bargains, buying up the MS. which was ready written, or else setting authors to write. Those who wanted a vent for their written works, or sought employment and could not wait till applied to, being unemployed, would go to some verlager and make their bargains.
Page 111 - ... pellets in the daily press, sometimes with the leaden pellets of their books ; to which M. La Croasse seemed, he said, sufficiently indifferent, for indeed he had himself, while in active life, been a pretty free dealer in political gymnastics, as the Baron termed such personalities. Emmeline, who esteemed him highly too, added that the new Lion (as she merrily called him) would have his share in the conversation ; but as he was of perfectly good breeding, she said, and could listen as well as...
Page 55 - Germanic mind. Besides, I could receive very little more for a critical dissertation or a romance, than for a translation from some well known foreign author. Again, there was frequently no demand at all for my original productions, not to mention that I was not at all times in a humour of mind to execute them ; and in the employment of a literary man...
Page 105 - Of course, there was but one thing to be done, and that was, to haul down the French flag and hoist my own, which was done in an instant, when we mutually hailed.
Page 56 - The evils of a literary life resolve themselves almost entirely into the ups and downs of imaginative composition, the uncertainty of finding a demand for exertions of genius, the greater uncertainty of being able to make these exertions, the occasional idleness and consequent want which are the result. Hence the anxieties, the sufferings, the various fortunes, the too often unequal spirits, even the recourse to dissipation for relief, which chequer the lives of literary men. " As my wants were exceedingly...
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