The Diamond NecklaceLeach, Shewell, & Sanborn, 1892 - 170 pagine |
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42 Edited Abbé Georgel Æneid Affaire du Collier Arch-Quack Bar-sur-Aube Bastille Behold Black Domino Boehmer Boulainvilliers Cagliostro called Cardinal Carlyle Carlyle's note CHAP CHAPTER Countess de Lamotte court Craigenputtoch Dame de Lamotte Dauphiness death Diamond Necklace distracted Dreams Earth Ecclefechan Edinburgh Eminence Rohan eyes fixed-idea foolish France French Revolution Gay d'Oliva genius Gigmanity gilt Autograph Grand Almoner heart Heaven Heyduc High and Puissant History Hypocrisia intrigues Jesuit Jeweller king Lamotte's letters living London look Louis de Rohan Louis XVI Madame Campan Madame de Lamotte Marie Antoinette married Monseigneur Monsieur months MOZIER night Palace Paris Philippe Egalité Polignac poor Prince Louis Queen Queen's Majesty Rascaldom reader Rohan Romance Rose royal Sartor Resartus Saverne scene September Massacres Sieur Soubise soul Strasburg style thee things Thomas Carlyle thought Trianon truth tutelary Countess Versailles Villette word writes
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Pagina 153 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Pagina 162 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Pagina 164 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Pagina 13 - Craigenputtock, an outlook from the back windows into more leafy regions, with here and there a red highpeaked old roof looking through, and see nothing of London except by day the summits of St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, and by night the gleam of the great Babylon, affronting the peaceful skies.
Pagina 87 - Sorrow,' for thee and all the wretched ! Thy path of thorns is nigh ended. One long last look at the Tuileries, where thy step was once so light, — where thy children shall not dwell. The head is on the block; the axe rushes — Dumb lies the World ; that wild-yelling World, and all its madness, is behind thee.
Pagina 19 - They were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain ; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into the world : the soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these.
Pagina 87 - Mean weeds, which her own hand has mended, attire the Queen of the world. The death-hurdle, where thou sittest pale motionless, which only curses environ, has to stop : a people, drunk with vengeance, will drink it again in full draught, looking at thee there. Far as the eye reaches, a multitudinous sea of maniac heads ; the air deaf with their...
Pagina 61 - He exhibits his four-and-twenty scarlet pages, — who, we find, ' smuggle ' 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.
Pagina 16 - In her bright existence she had more sorrows than are common, but also a soft invincibility, a capacity of discernment, and a noble loyalty of heart, which are rare. For forty years she was the true and loving helpmate of her husband, and by act and word unweariedly forwarded him as none else could in all of worthy that he did or attempted. She died at London, 21st April, 1866, suddenly snatched away from him, and the light of his life as if gone out.
Pagina 50 - A row of seventeen glorious diamonds, as large almost as filberts, encircle, not too tightly, the neck, a first time. Looser, gracefully fastened thrice to these, a three-wreathed festoon, and pendants enough (simple pear-shaped, multiple star-shaped, or clustering amorphous) encircle it, enwreath it, a second time.