The Diary of Frances Lady Shelley, Volume 1

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C. Scribner's, 1912

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Page 100 - I am wretched even at the moment of victory, and I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
Page 346 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Page 49 - Whose patriot zeal, and uncorrupted mind, Dared to assert the freedom of mankind : And whilst extending desolation far Ambition spread the baneful flames of war ; Fearless of blame, and eloquent to save, Twas he— 'twas Fox the warning counsel gave, Midst jarring conflicts stemmed the tide of blood, And to the menaced world a sea mark stood.
Page 64 - For the repeated thanks and grants bestowed upon you by this House, in gratitude for your many and eminent services, you have thought fit this day to offer us your acknowledgments; but this nation well knows that it is still largely your debtor. It owes to you the proud satisfaction, that, amidst the constellation of great and illustrious warriors who have recently visited our country...
Page 181 - Tu ne's pas mort, coquin," and struck his lance through my back; my head dropped, the blood gushed into my mouth, a difficulty of breathing came on, and I thought all was over.
Page 346 - Lo ! where it. comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract...
Page 75 - The first time I ever saw Nelson," said she, "was in the drawing-room at the Admiralty; and a most uncouth creature I thought him. He was just returned from Teneriffe, after having lost his arm. He looked so sickly, it was painful to see him ; and his general appearance was that of an idiot ; so much so, that when he spoke, and his wonderful mind broke forth, it was a sort of surprise that riveted my whole attention.
Page 64 - It owes to you the proud satisfaction that, amidst the constellation of great and illustrious warriors who have recently visited our country, we could present to them a leader of our own, to whom all, by common acclamation, conceded the pre-eminence ; and when the will of Heaven, and the common destinies of our nature, shall have swept away the present generation, you will have left your great name...
Page 62 - MY LORD, — Since last I had the honour of addressing you from this place, a series of eventful years has elapsed ; but none without some mark and note of your rising glory. " ' The military triumphs which your valour has achieved upon the banks of the Douro and the Tagus, of the Ebro and the Garonne, have called forth the spontaneous shouts of admiring nations. Those triumphs it is needless on this day to recount. Their names have been...
Page 70 - ... return to his hotel without incurring the displeasure of the municipality? That was my first thought. He had a cloak, but it was at the inn ; and I found that my friend was oppressed with a great horror at the idea of being left alone ; so that I could not go in search of it. There is an old saying, that no man is a hero to his valet de chambre...

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