Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw: Lady of Honour to Catherine II, Empress of All the Russias, Opseg 1H. Colburn, 1840 - Broj stranica: 836 |
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Stranica 107 - I could not bring myself to enter the palace until the following day. I then found the empress with a dejected air, visibly labouring under much uneasiness of mind. These were her words when she addressed me : — ' My horror at this death is inexpressible ; it is a blow which strikes me to the earth.
Stranica 111 - A sudden burst of the most exalted and ridiculously discordant tones was the consequence, — one seconding the other, with scientific shrugs, and all the solemn self-complacent airs and grimaces of musicians. From this, perhaps, she passed to the cat concert, and imitated the purring of poor puss, in the most droll and ludicrous manner, always taking care to add appropriate half comic, half sentimental words, which she invented for the occasion ; or else, spitting like a cat in a passion, with her...
Stranica 76 - Ismaeloffsky guards, and remain at their posts, in order to receive the empress at the suburbs of the city. Then, sir, do you, or one of your brothers, fly like lightning to Peterhoff, and from me entreat the empress to place herself instantly in a post carriage, which she will find in readiness...
Stranica 104 - ... he did was ridiculed, his complaints treated as jests, and his sarcasms sneered at and commented on, as marvellous proofs of understanding in a fool. The Empress Anne surpassed this abominable cruelty, but sometimes mingled in her practices so much of oddity that it was impossible not...
Stranica 180 - I came only to admire him, to be flattered so extravagantly was certainly the last thing in my thought, — which I believe I told him. A few compliments followed, and then we talked about the Empress of Russia. After making a pretty long visit, when I proposed returning home he earnestly requested us to go to his niece Madame Denis's apartment, where he hoped we would indulge him with our company at supper. We agreed, and were not long with Madame Denis before we were joined by her uncle. In a parenthesis...
Stranica 261 - ... and pernicious. The vain-glorious aiming at the fame of a creator hastened the building of Petersburg, by circumstances so little mingled with mercy, that thousands of workmen perished in the marshes. One of his edifices, indeed, of great labour and expense, might have been spared, had it not been wanting to the glory at which the founder of the city aspired, and that is an admiralty and dockyards on the banks of a river which no labour could render navigable for ships of war, or even for merchant...
Stranica 27 - you would do well to recollect that it is much safer to deal with honest blockheads, like your sister and myself, than with great wits, who squeeze the juice out of the orange, and then throw away the rind.
Stranica 38 - ... Catherine II. ; written by herself. 236 A few days after the accession of the emperor, he sought an interview with the princess, whose sister was, as we have mentioned, his mistress, and a singular contrast in manners and intellectual culture to herself. The princess thus relates what passed : — " The emperor, as soon as I had appeared in his presence, began to address me on a subject which seemed very near his heart, and in a manner which confirmed all my suspicions and alarm on account of...
Stranica 295 - ... but, to her astonishment, he tore it in pieces. Then, to an angry inquiry as to the cause of his conduct, he replied — " Be composed princess, and hearken to me. You are sincerely attached to her majesty ; nobody doubts it; why will you, then, distress and grieve her on a subject which, for the last two days, has occupied her thoughts exclusively, and on which she has absolutely fixed her heart ? If you are really inexorable, here is pen, ink, and paper ; write your letter anew ; but believe...