Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German, Volumen2Remington & Company, 1885 |
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actress admired afterwards appeared arrived artiste asked Baron Stockmar beautiful Berlin Bouffé charming cheerful Christian Stockmar Claremont House Countess Montgomery court cousin Christian cried dance daughter Déjazet dress drizzling Duchess Duke Duke of Kent England English eyes faithful Fanny father favour favourite Felix Schwarzenberg felt German Grand Greece Greek crown hand happy heart Henriette Henriette Sontag honour hope hour Hühnlein husband journey Karoline Bauer King George IV Lady Ellenborough laugh leave Leopold of Koburg letter Lina live London looked Lord marriage married Mdlle Mdme melancholy merry morning mother never night once Paris Parisian passionate Petersburg play poor pretty Prince Leopold prince-regent prince's Princess Charlotte Princess of Wales Prussia Queen Regent Regent's Park returned Royal Highness sang sing smile soon spouse stage stood tears theatre Théâtre Français Timm to-day to-morrow took unhappy Venningen whilst whole wife word young
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Página 222 - FAMED for contemptuous breach of sacred ties, By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies ; Between them stands another sceptred thing — It moves, it reigns — in all but name, a king : Charles to his people, Henry to his wife, — In him the double tyrant starts to life : Justice and death have mix'd their dust in vain, Each royal vampire wakes to life again.
Página 221 - TO A LADY WEEPING." WEEP, daughter of a royal line, A Sire's disgrace, a realm's decay; Ah ! happy if each tear of thine Could wash a father's fault away ! Weep — for thy tears are Virtue's tears — Auspicious to these suffering isles ; And be each drop in future years Repaid thee by thy people's smiles ! March, 1812.
Página 177 - And I was not permitted to answer a single one of these unuttered questions. I was not in a position to chat harmlessly and frankly a la Karoline Bauer with these amiable people, as of course I should have been only too glad to have done. I durst not say : — I have from vanity, and idleness, and love of gain, forsaken my artistic sphere, which made me so happy, and have already regretted this a thousand times most bitterly. Advise, help me, that I may be free again, an artiste, once more the former...
Página 318 - With pride Christian Freiherr von Stockmar might apply to himself our Schiller's words : — Riihmend darfs der Deutsche sagen Hoher darf das Herz ihm schlagen, Selbst erschuf er sich den Werth ! But this pride, and his strongly developed selfsufficiency not rarely degenerated into haughtiness, wanton and despotic arbitrariness. Christian Stockmar loved Prince Leopold, his " most gracious master," sincerely, but yet not without some selfishness, though that selfishness was quite aloof from pecuniary...
Página 209 - My mother was wicked, but she would not have turned so wicked had not my father been much more wicked still! " Cousin Christian and Prince Leopold said that the Princess of Wales had not been quite guiltless as wife and woman; that she had liaison upon liaison, but that she would assuredly have been a faithful spouse and mother if the prince had been to her a faithful and loving husband. From despair...