France of To-day: A Survey Comparative and Retrospective

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Lovell, Coryell, 1892 - 287 стор.
 

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Сторінка 6 - Night and Morning i v. The Last of the Barons 2 v. Athens 2 v. The Poems and Ballads of Schiller i v. Lucretia 2 v. Harold 2 v. King Arthur 2 v.
Сторінка 20 - Author of. Geraldine Hawthorne i v. "Molly Bawn," Author of: vidi Mrs. Hungerford. Montgomery, Florence. Misunderstood i v. — Thrown Together 2 v. — Thwarted i v. — Wild Mike 1 v. — Seaforth 2 v. — The Blue Veil iv. — Transformed i v. — The Fisherman's Daughter , etc. i v. — Colonel Norton 2 v.
Сторінка 52 - I was much struck with a large tract of land, seemingly nothing but huge rocks; yet most of it enclosed and planted with the most industrious attention. Every man has an olive, a mulberry, an almond, or a peach tree, and vines scattered...
Сторінка 8 - Author of. The County i v. Craik, George Lillie, f 1866. A Manual of English Literature and of the History of the English Language 2 v. Craik, Mrs.
Сторінка 8 - Lord Erlistoun i v. — Christian's Mistake i v. — Bread upon the Waters i v. — A Noble Life i v. — Olive 2v.
Сторінка 74 - Lourde, where is a castle on a rock, garrisoned for the mere purpose of keeping state prisoners, sent hither by lettres de cachet. Seven or eight are known to be here at present; thirty have been here at a time; and many for life — torn by the relentless hand of jealous tyranny from the bosom of domestic comfort; from wives, children, friends, and hurried for crimes unknown to themselves — more probably for virtues — to languish in this detested abode of misery — and die of despair. Oh, liberty!...
Сторінка 265 - An activity has been here, that has swept away all difficulties before it, and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. It would be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Сторінка 7 - Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family," Author of — Chronicles of the Sch5nbergCotta Family a v. The Draytons and the Davenants 2 v. On Both Sides of the Sea 2 v. Winifred Bertram i v. Diary of Mrs. Kitty Trevylyan i v. The Victory of the Vanquished i v. The Cottage by the Cathedral i v. Against the Stream 2v.
Сторінка 9 - Italy i v. The Battle of Life; the Haunted Man i v. Dombey and Son 3 v. David Copperfield 3 v. Bleak House 4 v. A Child's History of England (2 v. 8° M.
Сторінка 21 - The Rector and the Doctor's Family i v. — Salem Chapel 2 v. — The Perpetual Curate 2 v. — Miss Marjoribanks 2 v. — Ombra 2 v. — Memoir of Count de Montalembert 2 v. — May 2 v. — Innocent 2 v. — For Love and Life 2 v. — A Rose in June i v.

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