 ... to quite unconscionable lengths ; rides through a Catholic procession, ProspectiveCardinal though he be, because it is too long and keeps him from an appointment ; hunts, gallants ; gives suppers, Sardanapalus-wise, the finest ever seen in Vienna....  The Diamond Necklace - Pagina 61di Thomas Carlyle - 1892 - 170 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 536 pagine
...appointment ; hunts, gallants ; gives suppers, Sardanapalus-wise, the finest ever seen in Vienna. Abbe Georgel, as we fancy it was, writes a Despatch in...handkerchief in one hand, weeping ' for the woes of Poland ; hut with the sword in the other ' hand, ready to cut Poland in sections, and take her share.' 1 Untimely... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 534 pagine
...appointment; hunts, gallants ; gives suppers, Sardanapalus-wise, the finest ever seen in Vienna. Abbe Georgel, as we fancy it was, writes a Despatch in his name ' every fortnight;' — mentions in one ef these, that ' Maria Then^a ' stands, indeed, with the handkerchief in one hand, weepins 'for the... | |
 | Henry Vizetelly - 1867 - 396 pagine
...reflected strongly on the duplicity of the empress with respect to Poland. In this letter he remarked that "Maria Theresa stands, indeed, with the handkerchief...the woes of Poland, but with the sword in the other, ready to cut Poland into sections, and take her share,"* an observation in which there was not only... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 458 pagine
...appointment ; hunts, gallants ; gives suppers, Sardanapaluswise, the finest ever seen in Vienna. Abbe Georgel, as we fancy it was, writes a Despatch in...stands, indeed, with the handkerchief in one hand, weep' ing for the woes of Poland; but with the sword in the ' other hand, ready to cut Poland in sections,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1870 - 468 pagine
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 | 1872 - 742 pagine
...the dislike of Marie Antoinette. When ambassador at Vienna, he said of Maria Theresa, that she stood with "the handkerchief in one hand, weeping for the woes of Poland, but with the knife in the other, ready to cut Poland in sections, and take her share." This relieved the desert... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pagine
...mother in relation to one of the least defensible acts of her reign, describing Maria Theresa standing with the handkerchief in one hand weeping for the woes of Poland, and with the sword in the other ready to divide the land and take her share. This was sent to the last... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1885 - 688 pagine
...appointment ; hunts, gallants ; gives suppers, Sardauapalus-wise, the finest ever seen in Vienna. Abbe Georgel, as we fancy it was, writes a Despatch in...hand, weeping for the woes of Poland ; ' but with _ the sword in the other hand, ready to cut Poland ' in sections, and take her share.' ' Untimely joke... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1890 - 288 pagine
...hunts, gallants ; gives suppers, Sardanapalus-wise, the finest ever seen in Vienna. Abbi? Georgcl, as we fancy it was, writes a Despatch in his name...these, that ' Maria Theresa stands, indeed, with the handker' chief in one hand, weeping for the woes of Poland ; but with 1 the sword in the other hand,... | |
 | Alexandre Dumas - 1893 - 330 pagine
...have had its origin in a despatch sent by him while he was Ambassador at Vienna, to this effect : " Maria Theresa stands, indeed, with the handkerchief in one hand, weeping for the woes of Poland; butwith the sword in the other hand, ready to cut Poland in sections and take her share." D'Aiguillon,... | |
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