Napoleon, the Last PhaseArthur L. Humphreys, 1900 - 261 pagine |
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Pagina 261 - His eyes, light gray ; teeth good ; and when he smiled, the expression of his countenance was highly pleasing ; when under the influence of disappointment, however, it assumed a dark, gloomy cast. His hair was of a very dark brown, nearly approaching to black, and, though a little thin on the top and front, had not a gray hair amongst it. His complexion was a very uncommon one, being of a light, sallow color, differing from almost any other I ever met with.
Pagina 71 - To this Sir George Cockburn answered — " NORTHOMBERLAND, ST. HELENA ROADS, ' November, 6th, 1815. " SIR — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter and note of yesterday's date, by which you oblige me officially to explain to you that I have no cognizance of any Emperor being actually upon this island or of any person possessing such dignity having (as stated by you) come hither with me in the Northumberland.
Pagina 261 - ... and very small foot, of which he seemed rather vain, as he always wore, while on board the ship, silk stockings and shoes. His hands were also very small, and had the plumpness of a woman's rather than the robustness of a man's. His eyes light...
Pagina 51 - Well, they may abuse that man as much as they please: but if the people of England knew him as well as we do, they would not touch a hair of his head.
Pagina 201 - If it had not been for you English, I should have been Emperor . of the East ; but wherever there is water to float a ship, we are sure to find you in our way.
Pagina 240 - His neighbors' landmarks become playthings to him; he cannot leave them alone; he manipulates them for the mere love of moving them. His island enemy is on his nerves; he sees her everywhere; he strikes at her blindly and wildly. And so he produces universal unrest, universal hostility, the universal sense of his Incompatibility with all established society. But he pursues his path as if possessed, as If driven by the Inward sting of some burning devil. He has ceased to be sane. The intellect and...
Pagina 262 - His person I was very desirous of seeing, and I felt disappointed. His figure is very bad; he is short with a large head, his hands and legs small, and his body so corpulent as to project very considerably.
Pagina 149 - A chequered red madras upon his head, and his shirt collar open without a cravat. His air was melancholy and troubled. Before him stood a little round table, with some books, at the foot of which lay, in confusion .upon the carpet, a heap of those which he had already perused...
Pagina 265 - Without reference to the usual sobering effect of vicinity and contact in dissipating the gilded halos with which a sanguine fancy invests distant and remarkable objects, the interview with Napoleon had dissolved a glory, par excellence. A fascinating prestige, which we had cherished all our lives, then vanished like gossamer in the sun. The great Emperor Napoleon, the hero of modern times, had merged in an unsightly and obese individual ; and we looked in vain for that overwhelming power of eye...
Pagina 261 - ... amongst it. His complexion was a very uncommon one, being of a light sallow colour, differing from almost any other I ever met with. From his having become corpulent, he had lost much of his personal activity, and, if we are to give credit to those who attended him, a very considerable portion of his mental energy was also gone.