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238 MARIE ANTOINETTE.
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stifled , " lie complained , " beneath roses . " Soon the piercinglik eye e waxed a shado dull w that , and could the feeble no longer body imprison became more the ardent and more and
sarcastic soul . The ancient Richelieu came to see his friendfalse a strange eyebrows specimen his legs of anoth " lumped er variety out" of old th padded age ,, wi calves th his
, p , of his the painted skill cheeks of the clever and powdered charlatan wi . g But a la no mode Cag — lios a t triumph ro with
washes The news and wadding spread like could wildfir reinvi e gora that te Voltaire the idol . of Paris was
dying , but the philosopher revived once more , to be _present at approba the repres tion ent in ation vain , for the Irene scoffer . " , in " Versailles his sky-blu frowned e carriage dis- ,
Yet hailed studded the king triump wi th P h t was ars s , , b shor y was the t . worshi cries Immediatel and pped acclamations as y a af god terwards , of and the , M p peop ublicl adame le y _-
de Genlis visited the poet at Ferney , where in his ill-lighted ch lace amber to , a portrait fine picture of himself of Oorreggio had ting been him banished with his to g foot ive ;
p , represen his on the self neck -satisfied of his egotism enemy , — she the describes critic Freron him as ; and so ill in and spite de
jected story , which that she describes felt certain the death his -bed end was terrors approaching of this . end The is
probabl the final y decay quite unfounded of the corporeal . To the powers prostration which b distinguish y disease , and _ini feelinand
mos st t cases of in the sensibili ebbin t g generall of life—a succeed numbness It of is a serious g re a -
flec upor tionthat as a man lives so y he usually . dies . The shadows which s , teal over the brainand the sensation of sinking
helplessl t y in of to brain repose , are or not , calcul radical ated al t t era admi tion t of the f any ordinary fresh
modes exer of though power t . And , in any the case of Voltaire , the intellect was so clouded bdrusthat little importance can be attached
to his last words y . Op g , and glory ( as Madame du Deffand expressed it ) had shaken his feeble frame to pieces . No
religious service was read over the body , but Frederic of Prussia the laid mem aside his of sword that friend his p with en , to whom compo he se an had " Eloge alternately "
ory , life fra M ternized of eanwhile Marie Antoinette , the quarrelled joy of . becoming . To the ambitious a mother Empress had gladde of Austria ned the
w the omanl int elli q ueen ce forgo was t p f o li r ticall a w hile welcome her en , m whilst ities , fears the , more and , vexations , in the love of her new-born babe . For a time , hem
to wa at the s heaven a dream sex of for of the full her tiny . content But infant the . , wh Others exulting ose blu around e Marie eyes her Antoinette wer turned e grumbling ear only th
238 Marie Antoinette.
238 MARIE ANTOINETTE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/22/
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