Word: napoleonism
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...jumped the Earl of Coventry, rushed to his father-in-law's cell and acquainted Lord Kylsant with the failure of his appeal. Lady Kylsant arrived sobbing. She and the huge man who had been called "Napoleon of the Seas" when he dominated the White Star, Royal Mail and numerous other lines (TIME, Feb. 23) had a last embrace. Then Lord Kylsant said to two warders who were hovering nearby, "My good men, I am ready to go with...
...Biarritz in the swank Hotel du Palais, on the site of a pleasure palace of the Emperor Napoleon III, the World's leading statesmen will again decide, as they did at the Dawes Conference and again at the Young Conference, just what is "Germany's capacity...
...Meaning is connected with psychology in its vagueness. Even 'cat' is not precise, for at some time in evolution there were animals not quite 'cats.' At one instant it would have been difficult to say whether Napoleon was alive or dead, though when he was alive he took care to make people aware of the fact...
...beginning of the nineteenth century two earnest young men set out to write a book of poetry. The world stared back down the alley of the 1790's shivering. Napoleon was squinting in the sunlight as the nations stacked their guns before him. A handsome Austrian with a hooked nose sat devising a system founded upon those grievances against which Robespierre had hurled a reign of terror. The past lay in the burying ground of dead ideas. The present was a battlefield. There was no future...
...effort. Of the modern poetic output on the shelves, whatever is worth reading is so hidden in the mass of exercises in versification, that it evades all discovery. Beyond this there are also two sets of the novels of Scott, five lives of Nelson, a four volume life of Napoleon, and various works of fiction by Dickens, Thackeray, Kipling and others. The relation of these to poetic interest is obscure...