France, 第 1 卷H. Colburn, 1817 |
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第259页 - There ought to be a system of manners in every nation, which a wellformed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
第229页 - I have since found other roofs less pleasant than thine, have since — pent within stucco and inurned in marble mockery of grandeur — yearned for the careless fortune of thy uncultured surroundings, cried often in vain amid the uncomfortable comfort of the city. " Give me again my hollow tree, My crust of bread and liberty.
第48页 - Oh! when shall I behold near the peasant's hovel in my own country, (Ireland,) other flowers than the bearded thistle, which there waves its lonely head and scatters its down upon every passing blast, or the scentless shamrock, the unprofitable blossom of the soil which creeps to be trodden upon, and is gathered only to be plunged in the inebriating draught, commemorating annually the fatal illusions of the people, and drowning in the same tide of madness their emblems and their wrongs."—i.
第ix页 - ... of her study, she might then hope to prove, not indeed a good writer of novels, but a useful friend, a faithful wife, a tender mother, and a respectable and happy mistress of a family.
第61页 - This also would be a very long chapter if we were to do full justice to our subject, but we shall only select a specimen or two. • — A clock gives rise to the following observations. ' To count time by its artificial divisions, is the resource of inanity. The unoccupied ignorance of the very lowly, and the inevitable ennui of the very elevated, alike find their account in consultations with a time-piece. It is in the hour-glass of energy and of occupation, that the sand is always found lying...
第25页 - Upon the large farms the condition of the tenant is very much like that of our own English farmers; and in the pays de petite culture there exists a race, long disappeared from England, of poor but independent yeomen, who rear their families in a degree of comfort as perfect, as it is remote from luxury. The dwelling of a French farmer presents the same scene of rural bustle, activity, and industry, as is usually found in the English farm-house. The women always appear full of occupation and energy,...
第272页 - France'' It is no uncommon thing in that country, to see the most lasting attachment succeed to the most lively passion; and all that was faulty, in unlicensed love, become all that is respectable, in disinterested friendship. There is nothing more common in France, than to behold long-attached friends pairing off from the more prosperous lists of society, to unite their forces against the attacks of adversity, and who suffer with resignation, because they suffer together. These friendships, equally...
第39页 - The emperor sat motionless, with his hands spread over his eyes. The page stood patiently before him, gazing with infantine curiosity on an image which presented so strong a contrast to his own figure of simplicity and peace ; at last the little attendant presented his tray, exclaiming, in the familiarity of an age which knows so little distinctions, "Eat, sire; it will do you good.
第115页 - On a pris soixante bourgeois : on commence demain à pendre. Cette Province est un bel exemple pour les autres, et sur-tout de respecter les Gouverneurs et les Gouvernantes ; de ne point leur dire d'injures, de ne point jeter de pierres dans leur jardin.
第71页 - ... to his young mother, who was seated jat the door of her cottage, rocking the cradle of an infant child, and engaged in making a shirt for her husband. The peasantry submit with difficulty to the ennui of idleness, imposed on them by the new regulations, which enforce the strict observance of the sabbath — an observance unknown in most Catholic countries. Before I take leave of the family oinotre bon, pere Marin> I must notice an incident, which struck me forcibly.