"Bonheur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ans. Monti voulut bien nous les reciter. Je regardai Lord Byron, il fut ravi. La nuance de hauteur, ou plutot l'air d'un homme qui se trouve avoir a repousser une importunite, qui deparait un peu sa belle figure, disparut tout-a-coup pour faire a l'expression du bonheur. Le premier chant de la Mascheroniana, que Monti recita presque en entier, vaincu par les acclamations des auditeurs, causa la plus vive sensation a l'auteur de Childe Harold. Je n'oublierai jamais l'expression divine de ses traits; c'etait l'air serein de la puissance ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... you may read as follows: "Master Gebhart, of Antwerp, has a daughter seventeen years old, and she has illuminated the head of a Saviour for which I gave a florin. It is a marvel that a woman could do so much." Three and a half centuries later Rosa Bonheur hangs her master-piece in the chief places of the galleries of the world, and Harriet Hosmer's studio contributes many of the best marbles that adorn the parlors of Europe and America, and no one wonders that a woman can do so much. From that day when Martin Luther, the protesting ...
— Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
... d'autrefois, vertes saisons ou Vous avez fui pour toujours Je ne vois plus le ciel bleu Je n'entends plus les chants joyeux des oiseaux En emportant mon bonheur, O bien aime tu t'en es alle Et c'est en ...
— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs
... few instances it seems to me that the best things done by women equal the best things done by men in those lines. The best verses of Sappho, the best sonnets of Mrs. Browning, the best chapters of George Eliot, the best animal paintings of Rosa Bonheur, do not seem to me surpassed by their rivals in masculine work. If anything in verse of its sort is nobler than Mrs. Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic," it is still in manuscript. If there is any poet of more complete individuality than Emily Dickinson, ...
— Contemporary American Composers • Rupert Hughes
... "Quell bonheur!" she cried for the benefit of the others; and then in a lower tone: "But not Babaudins, petite. Andre will not permit Babaudin's; he says it is not convenable," and she threw up her eyes with mock resignation. "Say Papaud's. They keep their feet off the table at Papaud's—there are fewer ...
— A Daughter of To-Day • Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes)
... he stated the success of my piece, and the pleasure it had afforded the king. "All day long," said he, "his majesty sings, with the worst voice in his kingdom: 'J'ai perdu mon serviteur: J'ai perdu tout mon bonheur.'" He likewise added, that in a fortnight the Devin was to be performed a second time; which confirmed in the eyes of the public the complete success of ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau
... spread it on the grass, and leaning her face in her palms, rested her elbows on the ground, and began to read. Now and then she paused as she turned a leaf, to look around at the beautiful animals, each one of which might have served as a model for Landseer or Rosa Bonheur. Gradually the languor of the atmosphere stole into her busy brain; as the sun crept down the sky, her eyelids sunk with it, and very soon she was fast asleep, with her head on the book, and her cheeks ...
— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans
... certain currents of thought being in the air at given times, we may mention that in 1770 was published the posthumous work of another Frenchman, Chesneau du Marsais (1676-1756) entitled:—'Essai sur les Prejuges; ou de l'influence des Opinions sur les Moeurs et sur le Bonheur des Hommes.' The principal prejudices to which he refers are classed under Antiquity—Ancestry—Native Country—Religion—Respect for Wealth. Some of the reasoning is almost verbally identical with Condorcet's. ...
— On Compromise • John Morley
... Annivers., leaves "Abrahamic bosom of home" for A. S. lecture field, visits Adams and censures men for not furnishing kitchen properly, visits Hoosac Tunnel, speaks on summit of Green Mts., 218; let. on work of E. B. Browning, H. Hosmer, R. Bonheur, cares for Mrs. Stn.'s boys, visits New York, Boston, Framingham, at the Garrisons', 219; anger at N. Y. legis. for repealing laws in favor of women, 220; let. on private schools, her last teachers' con., results gained, teachers' debt to ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper
... Qui ne cherchas le vrai que pour faire le bien, Qui d'un peuple leger et trop ingrat peut-etre Preparais le bonheur et celui de son maitre, Ce qu'on nomme disgrace a paye tes bienfaits. Le vrai prix de travail n'est que de vivre ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Turgot • John Morley
... particulars. "I shall never forget," said Louis XV, "the amazing success obtained by his '' There certainly were some beautiful airs", and the king began to hum over the song of "<J'ai perdu tout mon bonheur." "Yes, madam," continued his majesty, " I promise you, that had Rousseau after his success chosen to step forward as a candidate for public favour, he would soon have overthrown Voltaire." "Pardon ...
— "Written by Herself" • Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon |
