Edward Bruce Hamley

“ Celestial gifts that o'er me spread,
A charm to cause all cares to flee?
Two deaths we die, 'tis plain decreed;
To cease to love, nor know the bliss
Of being loved, is death indeed—
To cease to live is nought to this. ”

“ At Luneville, sometimes at Commercy, a few miles over the frontier, Stanislaus, the father of Louis XV.'s queen, once king of Poland in reality, and still keeping the title, held his Court as Duke of Lorraine—that being the dominion which the greater Powers had, in the course of their negotiations (high-principled and disinterested as those of great Powers usually are) , assigned to him in compensation for the loss of his kingdom; and here Voltaire and his Emilie were warmly-welcomed guests. ”