Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished. (1st Time, 1839; Final, 1869).Scribner, Welford,, 1872 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abbé Georgel Atheism Balsamo Bar-sur-Aube Behold Beppo better Boehmer Buffière Cardinal character Comte de Cagliostro Count Cagliostro Countess de Lamotte Dame de Lamotte Denis Diderot Destiny Devil Earth Egyptian Eminence Encyclopédie eyes fancy father Fils Adoptif fixed-idea foolish France French French Revolution friends Gabriel Honoré genius Grand Cophta hand head heart Heaven History infinite Isle of Rhé Jesuit kind King labour Lettre de Cachet light live look Madame Majesty Manosque Marquis de Mirabeau Masonry matter meanwhile Mémoires Monseigneur Monsieur moral Nature never nevertheless night nowise old Marquis once Pailly Palermo Paris perhaps Philosophe Pontarlier poor Quack Queen reader Riquetti Rohan Saverne Scoundrelism Sieur Sophie sort soul speak spirit Strasburg strong tears thee things thither thou thyself tion true truth tutelary Countess Versailles weep whole wife word worth writes young
Popular passages
Page 207 - be said that he can now shift for himself; that his true figure is in a fair way of being ascertained. Doubtless it will be found one day what significance was in him; how (we quote from a New-England Book) ' the man was a divine missionary, though ' unconscious of it; and preached, through the cannon's throat,
Page 135 - thou callest prosaic ; of small interest ? Of small interest and for thee ? Awake, poor troubled sleeper : shake off thy torpid nightmare-dream; look, see, behold it, the Flame-image; splendours high as Heaven, terrors deep as Hell: this is God's Creation ; this is Man's Life !—Such things has the Writer of these lines witnessed, in this poor
Page 22 - dull Novels; a difficult feat, unhappily not an impossible one. If any mortal creature, even a Reviewer, be again compelled to glance into that Book, let him bathe himself in running water, put on change of raiment, and be unclean until the even. As yet the Metaphysico-Atheistic Lettre sur les Sourds et
Page 140 - curious readers can still fancy to themselves what a princely Ornament it was. 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
Page 164 - M. de Polignac and Company may be wringing their hands, not without an oblique glance at her for bringing them thither. She indeed discarded Etiquette; once, when her carriage broke down, she even entered a hackneycoach. She would walk, too, at Trianon, in mere straw-hat, and perhaps muslin gown ! Hence, the Knot of
Page 125 - The decision is of quite infinite moment ; see thou make it aright. But in fine, look at this matter of Cagliostro, as at all matters, with thy heart, with thy whole mind ; no longer merely squint at it with the poor side-glance of thy calculative faculty. Look at it not logically only, but mystically. Thou
Page 1 - had its foundation, are written in so small a compass, that they can be read in one little hour. The Acts of the French Philosophes, the importance of which is already fast exhausting itself, lie recorded in whole acres of typography, and would furnish reading for a lifetime. Nor is the stock, as we see, yet
Page 112 - (his Eminency's man of affairs) had frequent, most expensive orgies, in the Archiepiscopal Palace, where Tokay wine ran like water, to regale Cagliostro and his pretended wife, I thought it my duty to inform the Cardinal: his answer was, "I know it; I have even authorised him to commit abuses, if he judge fit.
Page 106 - thinner tail, of wondering and curious Dupes, stretches into remotest lands. Good Lavater, from amid his Swiss Mountains, could say of him: ' Cagliostro, a man; and a man such as few are; in whom, ' however, I am not a believer. O that he were simple of heart ' and humble, like a child ; that he had feeling for the
Page 109 - tuously dressed, gave an air of reality to the high birth he ' vaunted. The very liveries he got made at Paris cost twenty ' louis each. Apartments furnished in the height of the mode; ' a magnificent table, open to numerous guests ; rich dresses ' for himself and his wife, corresponded to this luxurious way